PROTESTS and quarantine and border controls are why we never had a real wave....
So you agree the govt focus is wrong; agreed so do we all.
So therefore first port of call is the govt - direct your disapproval at them, because they're the ones encouraging people to be economical with the actualite.
Human behaviour is largely predictable, and it's the govt that keep ballsing it up.
No matter how responsible your citizenry, if you make the incentive to be responsible so much massively worse than the incentive to act in your own self interest, you are going to get shit outcomes and have MORE outbreaks (mini ones - there are no waves in HK) than there would be otherwise.
Responsibility starts at the top.
You've already seen how govt personnel are moving back and forth across the border repeatedly with no quarantine - You're ok with that?