No, it doesn't. At least not in anything but the extreme near term. And there are plenty examples of this.
If it worked "very well" then countries with draconian lockdowns would be long past any COVID issues. And all of them, nearly two years into it, are still at the same place they were in the beginning.
Seeing the success of Austria, the German government is finalizing plans to lockdown the unvaccinated today. Locking down those spreading the majority of the disease -- who refuse to be responsible citizens -- makes common sense.
COVID: Germany set to approve curbs on unvaccinated
https://www.dw.com/en/covid-germany...GK_RSS_SmartNews_Volltext_ENG-20051-xml-media