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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The case rate increasingly means nothing, as has been noted by many public health commentators.  Like, when many/most cases are mild colds or asymptomatic, those cases shouldn't be looked at the in the same way as prior waves.

The important metric is hospital capacity.  Note that in DC we've NEVER gone above hospital bed availability, and still aren't even trending in that direction.[/quote]

e.g., 
"We have reached a point in the pandemic where policy should no longer be based around the idea that we cannot resume normal life until case numbers are below a particular (arbitrary) level. One reason is that those levels were set before vaccination, and have not been adjusted accordingly, even though a large proportion of cases, in part due to the growing proportion of cases that are breakthrough cases, are now mild. Another reason is that these metrics were set at a time where policy makers were scrambling to set thresholds to open and close social institutions in the absence of robust data. Setting thresholds for activities according to cases no longer makes sense, but U.S. states and counties are still reporting daily case numbers and fluctuations as though policies should revolve around these numbers."

https://time.com/6129225/omicron-covid-19-case-counts/[/quote]

3,000 people will die of the virus today.

And we have resumed normal life.  Our children are going to school.  People are going to work.  People are eating in restaurants.  Normal is happening.

You're just a f*ucking baby about masks.  Which is ridiculous because the actual children don't care about them. [/quote]

Are you even responding to the quote?  It doesn't seem like it.  The quote is how we shouldn't tie mitigation efforts to case rates any more.

I realize that moving toward unmasking is going to be difficult for you, if your response to well-stated discussion is to swear at people and turn hysterical.  But it's going to happen.[/quote]

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