Your premise is that no one died because Trump lied. He lied about the danger of the disease, downplayed the risk, didn't take safety measures due to his lies and ego, and held a rally in the middle of a pandemic and, people like Cain, trusted him and died.

We're not talking about how the virus works. We're talking about whether or not Trump's lies led to deaths.

THey did.

Your premise is false.

I would add that I don't post my email address publicly, which helps a lot. There's a contact me on my former site, and I list Twitter so as my email address isn't public and I can respond (or not) to anyone I choose.

This happens to me as a screenwriter, too (not the meetups for private hookups, of course, sadly)... where people message me to get me to show them how I do what I do, or ask me to write something for them for free, to tell me about this great idea for a movie they have but they need me to write it before it sells, etc.

I get it.

That being said, I have a number of friends who are experts in their various areas (MDs, military, tech, law enforcement, etc) that I sometimes reach out to, in order to ask questions pertaining to what I'm working on, in order to get it right.

THe nice thing about being a screenwriter is, often people are happy to share their work details because they hate it when it's done wrong up on the movie screen.

This is common in my area of craft, I can understand how it's not common in yours.