If the Western World would have actually succeeded in proper totalitarianism like China, then everybody would be having legal raves right now.
Instead, what the West did was its usual ineffectual virtue signaling crap, which somehow manages to suppress the spirit, without actually taking away any relevant freedoms. So here we are.. 60 000 new infections in a singe day in UK, while flocks of dog walking millenials sip take-away coffees on a local corner as if it was a perpetual Sunday morning.