The article is attempting to follow in the satirical tradition of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal", which suggested feeding children to the poor in 18th century Ireland.
I've read it, but I find the line hard to see with this article. There are several, maybe most, of the other claims that are actually true. Governments in general really do breach systems and drop malware like this, and most ransomware attacks aren't being performed with big zero day exploits. Jonathan Swift didn't cite his previous articles or actual newspapers, as I remember at least. After a couple more reads I should have picked up on them "shortening the grace period", that seems obvious. I got burned by this one.