I think just the opposite, anything to take attention off slow Joe and the riots just helps them. They will turn this into a circus that makes the Kavenaugh debacle look like a Sunday church meeting.
If this helps the coronavirus panic fade away I'm all for this tradeoff--my #1 election issue is this: I WANT MY KIDS BACK IN SCHOOL! They are still locked in their bedrooms staring at a screen all day, and my senior is missing his senior year. We are prisoners here in CA.