Is the Trail-Gazette purposefully suppressing information on local COVID deaths and cases?

I could see how someone could get to the Trail-Gazette brass and tell them "Look, we're getting killed out here with bad news. We are going to go belly up if you don't throw us a lifeline and stop the drumbeat related to COVID cases in Estes Park (which have doubled in the last six months) and for sure keep your nose out of mounting COVID deaths (the most recent one, i.e., the obituary for this individual, which makes no mention of cause of death in late April 2022, is currently the most popular article on the competitor's website).
I wonder who that "someone" was? Could it have been someone on the Trail-Gazette's editorial board? Perhaps someone who also serves on our local hospital board? Tom "Speedy" Covalez now says there is a backlog of state-reported deaths from last year, which will be added to the Larimer County count retrospectively. Estes Park, welcome to 20 deaths and 2000+ cases since the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak began. Not bad for a town of 6000 strong (in summer, perhaps half that in winter), most of whom use social media to refer to the vaccine as a "death shot" or a "crime against humanity". This includes some of our illustrious appointed and/or elected government officials. No wonder we have to pretend none of this is happening.

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