On the one hand you say it reduces contact, on the other it "doesn‘t work".

You're probably too dense to realise that "doesn't work" refers to forcing bars to close at 12am, and "less stupid, but it works" refers to forcing bars to close at 8.30pm.

Can I ask which country you‘re from where after 6 weeks everyone was magically virus free?

God forbid you read about New Zealand or Taiwan.

Even with semi-competent leadership where I am, we are down to single digit number of cases, majority of whom are imported cases. All quarantined, all contact traced. No one has died of COVID since mid-July. 1 in the ICU, 40 odd people hospitalised. Everyone else is well enough to quarantine at a non-medical facility.

All it took was 6 weeks before our "lockdown" eased and you could do more than during the lockdown.