Is the fed waiting for the unemployment to raise before cutting rates?

in 2020 they kept them near to 0 because of corona virus loss of job situation as you may see in this article https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/16/fed-meeting-decision-interest-rates.html now are they waiting for people starving or are they simply calming down the situation stagflating? If they keep on doing that a lot of companies will have to fire (Amazon is already firing)