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That isn't a standard. Cases aren't in any way by Steelhop
a reliable metric of determining severity. As Mintirish noted above WRT to the CDC numbers related to "high or substantial" there are issues with that.
First, there is no evidentiary backing as to why those were picked. What if they should be lower?
Second, it doesn't take into account testing numbers. More tests, more cases.
Third, as it was originally stated way back 500+ days ago that we are doing all this to prevent overwhelming our hospitals. There has been a decoupling of cases from hospitalizations and deaths.
Lastly, said standard wouldn't have stopped the outbreak generated in P-town that was basis for the White House deciding they wanted to change the policies. As you stated above "It was sex. Don’t have sex with and French kiss a Covid positive person."