Should the throttle be removed from COVID thread?

My inclination is to see how the thread plays out for the balance of the week left, and then it’ll open back up automatically and hopefully everyone can be a little more chill. From my perspective, the signal to noise has gone up dramatically, and the animosity is down to basically zero. That’s pretty amazing in a thread that had been particularly personal compared to just about any here outside of About Unstuck or those exiled to French BBV. This isn’t something I want to do often, but given how contentious bans have been of late, I wanted to try something different. For those quibbling about the time, the canned options are 15 minutes, 1 hr, 4 hrs, 1 day, and 1 week. There is custom, but I wasn’t exactly sure what to use. Four hrs seemed short compare to how long it would be between actual new information coming out, so I went with the next higher canned option.