Second wave in Vietnam, Australia, China, Japan, and news of more cases in other Asian countries.
“Vietnam is evacuating 80,000 people, mostly local tourists, from the central city of Danang after three residents tested positive...” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-second-wave-of-coronavirus-infections-in-asia-prompts-new-lockdowns/

“India continues to ease restrictions despite a relentless rise in infections. India has a total of 1.4 million cases, behind only the United States and Brazil.”

“More than 16.13 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 644,836 have died...”

In March we were writing about the ~400K total COVID cases in our preprint. Back then some world leaders and top academics already dismissed the dangers of SARS2, saying it would disappear.
Fast fwd 4 months+16M cases, how are some of the same people still singing the same song?

What some of the more proactive countries understand is that once you have a handful of positive cases (with no travel history), that means there is community spread = many more cases you don't know about.
Rather than wait till the entire city explodes, they evacuate or shutdown.

I don't see any way out of this pandemic except for multiple new vaccines being developed and people being willing to be vaccinated.

Even if herd immunity develops in a handful of regions (at great cost), travel (business/leisure) still wouldn't be safe.

For example, even if Florida somehow developed herd immunity, incoming visitors would create pockets of low immunity at disney, airport, restaurants, hotels, public streets.

You wouldn't be able to ensure that no one is bringing in SARS and that it doesn't spread in your area.