Indeed. Lockdowns appear to be the central policy and the entire goal. Contact tracing was supposed to remove the need for it, but it became a reason to lock down in itself, ‘because we have to keep new infections low enough for the contact tracers to manage.’
Likewise, the antigen tests don’t allow re-opening as advertised. Positive antigen results are confirmed via PCR, contribute to the central statistics, and generate a larger number of cases triggering further lockdowns.