No, the CDC tracks deaths per day. That does not mean the CDC uses deaths per day to track the progress of the epidemic. That has never been the case. Tracking the spread of the virus means tracking the spread of the virus. That means keeping track of how many people get the virus. That actually entails finding out how many people have the virus at a given time. What that means is knowing how many new infections there are everyday.
That means they actually track new cases per day. That is the stat that has always been the primary for tracking the spread of the virus. Because that is the spread of the virus.
The reason they track new cases per day as the primary stat in regard to flatten the curve, is because that is the stat in the curve we are trying to flatten with the lockdowns.
The lockdowns are to flatten the curve. The curve is the logarithmic graph of new cases per day.
You're just flat out wrong, and trying to push your own narrative. The fact is, there is no direct evidence that the lockdowns have had a significant impact on the growth of cases per day. You have been trotting out that graph showing deaths per day and it's nothing more than "urban epicenters". The number of deaths naturally decreases as more and more cases occur despite the lack of detection. The fact that you even mentioned "how long they have to go" shows that you're aware of this. In fact the number of deaths per day is significantly increasing and most urban areas have had to revise death counts more than once. That is why the CDC does not and has never used deaths per day as the primary stat to track the spread of the virus. Another reason is that different healthcare systems have different levels of treatment and therefore different death rates. Yet another reason is that a new treatment could hit the market and severely skew death rates. It's not a reliable stat for tracking the spread of the virus.
It's much better to track the spread of the virus, in order to know how much it has spread. That's why cases per day is and has always been...
THE CURVE.
The CDC tracks progress of the epidemic using deaths per day as it's main metric. That is what their model is based upon.
I'm sorry that this clashes with your sense of entitlement. I'm not even going to try to defend the CDC. You can rail against recommendations by the CDC to the US public from your beachhouse in the Philippines all you want but that's just how it goes, foreigner.
My narrative? What's that? All I'm doing is reading and trying to understand what our health experts are doing as well as what they ask of me. If it means that I occasionally snub somebody who tells us that drinking drano and cavorting in a crowded bar filled with people infected with Coronavirus is OK, then I'm all for it. OK, so the Drano part was an exaggeration.
We have about four more weeks to go before their models show that the rates of new infections and deaths is low enough to enact testing, contact tracing and isolation protocols so that we can open up without the massive death counts that you advocate. If people don't stay home, don't avoid crowed spaces, don't social distance then it will take longer and yes, we'll have a healthcare disaster that's entirely due to knuckleheads who do the wrong things.
At least 80% of the population are not immune to this virus. We already have 55,000 dead, so, what you advocate is something like 4x more within a matter of a few months. It's OK for you to say so just don't think your ignorant back of the envelope calculations matter to anybody but yourself.
Names, please. Who do you say are "they" that are -- what is it you say "they" are doing? I'm not good at fake conspiracy theories.
Oh, and last I checked, lockdowns are still working. Nothing new to show, just refer to an earlier graphic I posted. It's still valid and shows that the curve was flattened.