It's surprising how successful it is given relatively low immunity among the population and how infectious the new variants are. And yet its both unsustainable and will have to be maintained forever. There is currently no plausible path out of the measures.

If you had to choose between a 1% risk of being crippled by COVID, or a 100% risk of living under the strictest lockdown measures your country had for the rest of your life, what would you choose? And the actual risk of long-term consequences is lower.