[infamouscow]

I thought was actually mattered was hospitalizations and deaths. Why is measuring infections relevant?

[unanswered]

According to the public perception, getting COVID is a death sentence. That's all there is to it.

[sacomo]

The primary goal is to not contract covid-19.

[kelnos]

That may be your goal, but that is not the goal of public health policy. If complete eradication was the goal, we would be wearing masks, social distancing, and requiring businesses to operate at lower capacity for many, many years to come. That is just not an acceptable state of life for the vast majority of people in the US. You may not agree with that, but that's just how things are.

[weezin]

So what is an appropriate amount of cases to go back to normal?