Is it time to restrict the MWRA covid shorter-term graphs again?

... a year and a few months ago, the MWRA covid tracking site added a pair of graphs to show a limited time frame so it would be easier to see the trends because the all-time graph was too difficult to see based on the scope of measurements (both time and variation of amount of spread)... that was about 2 years into the pandemic. They set the new graphs to start with the time-axis at 1-Jan-2022 (though you can't see the readings until about a week in because the qty-axis caps at about 5,000 and we weren't that low as of the start of the year).  

So... here's my question: when are we going to shorten the timeframe these more limited graphs are displaying again? If 2 years is far too many points and too much variability to read easily, is it perhaps reasonable to keep it to 1-year?  

But then we wouldn't have the super-high readings from the third wave and would only see the last year's waves... like the one that peaked in late Dec/early Jan at a 7-day daily average just below 2,000 copies/mL in each region... This past winter's wave may have been only around 1/5 the highest we've seen but it was also roughly 5 times the first wave and twice the second wave... Why should we only compare to the worst we've ever seen? If that were the path forward, we haven't seen any kind of even somewhat important economic downturn since the Great Depression... but I suspect people would still recall the Great Recession and several other recessions in the last 40 years despite not being nearly as bad.

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