thats a valid criticism, but I didn't mean the thresholds as prescriptive. they would depend upon a few things but actual values can be calculated based on infection rate & also be learnt from past cycles after you have gone through it once. the idea is that quarantine will slow down R0 enough to give hospitals a breather & work through the cases. also it will buy enough time to manufacture more ventilators.

Lastly once we go through a couple of these on-off cycles it will help establish that the virus is a know quantity to the larger economy so we can plan around this. which is way better than current 'OMG we are headed for depression' style panic.