Like in places such as the Czech Republic? Short term success just delays the inevitable. The only exit strategy is to build up population immunity.
I think there is enough circumstantial evidence circulating to suggest that China knew about COVID-19 several months before it alerted the rest of the world.
Whether the virus escaped from a laboratory or through natural means, COVID-19 would not have been so serious for the world if China had notified the World Health Organisation a couple of months earlier than it did.
The long term economic consequences of all these measures have been swept under the carpet, but cannot be kept hidden for much longer.
We are going to be in for a period of austerity (or "economic adjustment" or what ever you want to call it) much like the austerity that followed the Second World War. (Certain foods were rationed after the war that were never rationed during the war, and rationing didn't end completely until 1954.)
But I think that people are growing increasingly restive. There were anti lockdown protests in the UK, and you only have to look across the Channel to see how the French are reacting to the compulsory "Pass Sanitaire".
Even in locktivist countries like Australia, people have had enough, and we are beginning to see more and more anti lockdown demonstrations.
If the UK is not well on the road to recovery, then the Conservatives could well lose the general election, with some papers even reporting that Boris Johnson could lose his seat, due to the number of jobs in his constituency that depend on the travel industry, which has been wrecked by his policies.
