Given how many people argue the dumbest things about this article (like that if we include the January 2020 Covid numbers things would be differrent!) I don't t

Given how many people argue the dumbest things about this article (like that if we include the January 2020 Covid numbers things would be differrent!) I don't think the issue is intentional stupidity. The journalist has a story, and if they asked the questions about context they wouldn't have a story, so they simply ignore those issues.