We Shouldn't Be Using Case Numbers as Our Metric

Fauche declared that case numbers were going to be the standard by which we judged how loose, how much looser we could get with restrictions. Case numbers are now well over 300 thousand a day in the united states because of omacron. There would be a revolution in this country if you followed the logic of a regime that said ten thousand cases means the pandemic is over. I think what happened is that there a momentary spasm of realism when the contagion and the lack of severity of omicron dovetailed. They all saw the same thing, which is, we can't stop it. And maybe, just maybe, if we don't stop if we don