nope, this is entirely true.
according to sneaky’s numbers, there were 20K new cases in just 5 european countries today. most of whom are only testing symptomatic people. no-one has “defeated” the virus.
the mitigation efforts were never supposed to “defeat” the virus, they can’t. They were supposed to slow the spread so the medical systems could handle the case load. it has been known from the beginning that over time, without a vaccine, the end result would be no different.