Except that's there's very little testing compared to previous times. It's apples and oranges. Deaths and hospitalizations are essentially meaningless now. I wouldn't think that's a good way to measure out your choices. The only two numbers that I can see still being meaningful are wastewater testing(although that has limitations) and excess deaths(which are lagging).
We have a hospital basically across the street from us. On the last day of August, 2022, they decided that they didn't have to keep reporting COVID numbers if they didn't test anymore. They haven't done a single test since. Officially, that means we have zero cases for the last 10 months. Those zero cases get averaged into the data for the CDC's whole area data, bringing down the numbers for a whole chunk of central Florida.
It doesn't have to be that extreme where you are to give a totally false sense of what's going on.
