[cabmandone]

Because the "others' harping on the high number of infections in places like Florida and Texas are allegedly medical professionals and some of them are advocating for more shutdowns to prevent "another Florida or Texas" when Florida and Texas combined haven't seen close to the daily death numbers that NY and NJ did.
"look at the infection rate!" seems to be the battle cry. If the number of infections are in age groups that tend to survive this virus, why do infection rates matter?