3) No one is saying lockdowns should be sustained indefinitely. Lockdowns are meant to be put in place until sustainable thresholds of new cases are met. Unfortunately, there are two major problems with how "lockdowns" were instituted. First, the initial "lockdowns" in most of this country were half-hearted efforts with tons of exceptions and people still moving about, all while lots of people refused to wear masks or wore them improperly. Secondly, what I think the bigger problem with the lockdowns in this country is, is that most of the lockdowns occurred relatively at the same time. So, while outbreaks were happening in larger population centers, the rest of the country locked down well before the virus really got to their areas. Now, with economic and political pressures building with relatively few cases in these communities, they are re-opening just in time for the spread of the virus to truly reach them. Lockdowns should have been instituted in a more coordinated, staged process focusing on walling off hot-spots. But that would have required a strong national-level response, which we just did not get. The national level response was basically, "figure it out for yourselves govenors".