We are using the wrong metric to measure success. It's not new cases and it never has been. It's if places are equipped to deal with new cases. I keep reading articles like this which seek to alarm. SK is handling it well, and continue to do so. This doesn't mean they are failing, it means they are vigilant and testing.
Staying on lockdown indefinitely is infeasible and everyone knows that. There will always be new cases, and we can't keep locking down everything every time there's a cluster, because that is just going to go on until we get a vaccine, and even after. It's about management and it always has been. Can we reopen and continue to provide for people who get coronavirus without overwhelming the medical system? is and always should be the question to answer. But all I ever read it "10 NEW COVID CASES IN BLAH BLAH!". Yeah, no shit.
I'm tired of these moving goalposts, it's only promoting the narrative that if only we all remain in lockdown, it will all go away. It won't. That's dangerous thinking. It will never really go away, we need to find a way to live with it, and the only way to do that is testing and treatment.
Just want to say that everyone doesn't know that. Read this forum. A decent chunk of people here think we can remain on lock down for several months to over a year.