I'm from Australia where our government is slowly easing restrictions because our daily case count has been in the single digits for multiple consecutive days now, and even then it is very gradual. Reopening resturants and bars is still very far on the horizon.

In the US, even with full lockdown restrictions for several weeks now, the daily death count has hovered at 2,000 for almost two infection cycles (first >2k death day was Apr 7th).

If 'full' lockdown only achieves stabilisation of the death rate, how is easing restrictions, which as far as I can see only rationally relies on the still-shaky evidence from serology studies, what exactly is the plan?

I genuinely ask this in a state of disbelief at the current "end lockdown" narrative circulating in the US. Here in AUS/NZ the Gov didn't fuck around; we locked down, had brutally strict measures for 6 weeks now, and at this point nobody is rushing to re-open (except for a few regional cities that haven't even had cases), while the US has been at 2,000 deaths a day.