I'm sorry if it came through as judgement, it wasn't meant to.
In general though the problem with your stance -on a theoretical level- @Firefliess is that individuals who want to be lax potentially endanger others. It is a fine line of being just lax enough, being responsible and being a dick. And after a year and a half of seeing how humanity -en masse- behaved I don't think I trust them to not be the last of the options.
I truly believe that if we had proper, meaningful and honest messaging and proper rules from those who are responsible for setting the tone we would have been in a far better position. So I can't entirely fault any one individual, it's just an unfortunate turn of events that we happened to have the worst possible gov in place when we would have needed rational and good leadership.