over 4,000. um, is that an acceptable number to do this? or or are they projecting out to march 7th at this point? i don t think we should be looking at case counts at all at this point, especial ly when we are dealing with a milder variant, and when so many people were exposed to omicron and, therefore, have at least some level of protection, either through vaccination or immunity. the key number we should be looking at is hospitalizations. if our icus and hospitals in that particular region are not overwhelmed, if they are not over capacity, we can set a number. for example, 75% or 80% full. then, we should be able to relax all restrictions and i actually believe that we should be starting to, with the first restriction removed, should actually be the restriction on children. because while for adults, you could say well what s the harm of adults masking when they go into a grocery store? there actually is a harm that we should be discussing of children continuing to mask. that do