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In the very beginning Germany was doing _extremely_ well, until the protesters showed up.

Which is crazy, because Germany managed to do well by good organisation and mass testing, not by lockdowns.

Uh, Germany locked down pretty hard, several times. "Good" organisation and mass testing came later.

Source: my last two years with three kids at home

The couple of months of schooling at home wasn't really a hard lockdown when compared with other countries in Europe.