As it turns out, I read that! I’d point out the very first sentence of that sticky is “This forum is about anything related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19).” Then, it immediately contradicts itself and goes into how you should not debate anything or introduce politics, which seems to me to be a pretty inevitable result of most of these threads. So I inferred that there was some other line that was being applied. A de facto vs de jure standard, if you will.
Anyway, if the intent really is to get political and debate threads out of there, you still have some work to do…
ETA: and by the way, Colibri, that thread is mostly about debating research studies at this point, regardless of the OP’s intent.