[Slikey]

This is a very good point, but sadly in reality it seems these goals are purposely hidden or obscured for subjective gain or unpopluar ideological reasons.

Initially the pandemic response was about "not overwhelming the hospitals", but it seems some politicians disagree on the fundamental direction. I'd just be happy if my government had a clear policy on their goal. Do they want to reduce infections or do they want to prevent overwhelming emergency services?

Obviously my knowledge on facts is very limitted, I simply don't have time for that, but the news still report lots of capacity in hospitals.

[mcguire]

"Do they want to reduce infections or do they want to prevent overwhelming emergency services?"

How do those two policies differ?

Well, I mean, there's the obvious: don't treat people with COVID. But that seems sub-optimal.

[Slikey]

Well there are three possibilities 1) Reduce Infections: You try to get infections down to zero. 2) Ignore Infections: Usually used for common cold. People even go to work with it. 3) Limit Infections: You dynamically scale meassures to stay at a defined limit. In this case a number derived from hospital capacity.

[mcguire]

"Reduce X" doesn't necessarily mean "I will only be satisfied if X is 0."