@curiouskiwi bet your butt the 2k was not correct. I reckon we've been at well over 15k+ cases a day since masking officially stopped. In its height before they switched to weekly only counts and masking in stores was still mandatory we were still getting 11+k cases daily.
And given our track record with copying the UK and US especially in their laxing of rules, and there was an article stating that the US had been purposefully cooking the numbers to seem like less for a while, you can bet your butt that our government was doing the same.

"But the government wouldn't lie"
I hear you gasp

And my answer to that is that they absolutely would and have done. The incorrect messaging about monkeypox is a prime example of the government downplaying and lying about a pandemic and pandemic information as official information/news.

So yeah. What I'm saying is assume more. Way more. Pandemic is not over and in fact this is the time where we should start notice especially antimaskers who have caught it multiple times start to drop off, because they'll have reached or started reaching the max number of infections their bodies can handle and will subsequently start dropping soon at this rate.