When you want to see how bad it can get, see the Czech Republic in the top ten. We are land locked, quite high density and with a lot of neighbors with a lot of regular cross border traffic. There were lockdowns though arguably too late, chaotic and often ignored.

End result ? 30000+ dead.

Well, at least it looks like the ammount of people who got infected was quite massive as with only 50% vaccination rate right now things are not going back to hell so far, with hardly any precautions still in place.