Germany now pretends to open, while imposing such onerous restrictions on public life (ridiculous capacity restrictions, mandatory appointments at places like fitness studios, antigen tests required everywhere) that nobody will bother and the de facto lockdown can continue.
As long as they seem to be working at cross purposes there's some hope. The retirees will all be vaxxed in a few months in DE, and with that the big pro-lockdown constituency will start wanting normal life back. What happens when infections return in the fall, idk.