You're witnessing a real-time process of adaptation. What you need to understand is even if officials and leaders agree that generic lockdowns are "dumb", it ta

You're witnessing a real-time process of adaptation. What you need to understand is even if officials and leaders agree that generic lockdowns are "dumb", it takes days or weeks to enact those changes at the macro level. You also need to add on the 14 day incubation period of the virus. If you make sweeping adjustments to lockdown or distancing rules, you will not know the true effects for 10-14 days. This makes progress seem very slow whereas the reality of it is that progress is actually moving quite fast in the macro (global) sense.