Possible. I think there's a couple more optimistic possibilities.

1. They've realized the lockdowns are causing more harm than good. In the US, places like NY and California are badly broken at the moment, and unless they restart the economies soon they're not going to be able to keep their bread and circus programs going. Sure, Pelosi and co are still trying to get federal bailout money but even that is a weak bandaid rather than an actual fix. Couple that with continued lockdown protests continuing all over the place (even though the MSM rarely reports on them), and several states saying they won't be doing any further lockdowns it will rapidly become obvious to everyone that these were a huge mistake.

2. They just want to spike the covid numbers. Birx is already talking about muh second wave, but while the infection numbers have gone up a bit with schools the death rate is still going down. Current deaths per day is about the same as it was in mid-July. Infection fatality rate among confirmed cases is closing in on 2.8% (and thus likely much lower than that due to untested cases) and its becoming clearer and clearer that the disease is just not that scary. By trying to spike the covid numbers they can say "See, we were right all along!" and try to make people panic about a second wave.