Several weeks ago CBS News reported that US “inflation in January surged at fastest rate in 40 years”, whilst displaying a graph that reveals higher price hikes during 2021 (President Biden’s first year in charge, and the year that vaccine mandates were imposed) as compared with 2020 (President Trump’s last full year in office), referring to “sharp increases” in the cost of “gas, food”, and other items, in “the past year”.