Did Democrat Governors Use COVID As A Death Panel?

It's a sinister theory, I understand. However, the Democrat governors who chose to put sick people in nursing homes against the guidance of the experts and conventional wisdom must have done it for a reason.

Was it that they are genuinely that clueless and stupid?

Or did they, maybe, use COVID as a way to address budgetary problems with senior citizen funding efforts?

At the very least, it's a question that must be asked.