Reading the discussion between Kyle and Bloop regarding Kyle idea of making an app to tell people to stay at home and offering a monetary incentive, it is open to abuse if someone purchases a burner phone/dumbphone so they could leave their smartphone at home with the GPS telling the government that they’re staying locked down whilst they’re out and about.
Regardless, I think this all comes back to the point that the world, as a whole, was in no way prepared for this pandemic. As a planet, we've responded reasonably well in some areas and very badly in others, but overall, there really isn't that much we can do. We as humans love the illusion of control and ofimposing our collective will on a thing to make it do what we want, but in the grand scheme of things, looking at the numbers going through the roof in the US, Brazil and India, there's nothing we can do other than watch.
Sure, small, remote, low population countries like New Zealand (22 total deaths) or Iceland (10 total deaths) can make it look every nation should be containing this, but as soon as you look at any large, densely populated country, the pattern becomes clear - if you give this virus an inch, it takes a mile.
Australia were beating it, now they're struggling again, even if only slightly.
It's still just as deadly as it ever was, still just as contagious as it ever was. Still we have no vaccine, and want to do for a long time. People's tolerance of lockdown is basically at zero.
The US and Brazil are basically, whether they want to or not, now just letting this thing run rampant through the population. That's what the numbers are showing anyway.