There is a bit denial-ism to this all. Even people in Thailand, my immigrant friends - they just all want this to be over with, get the malls and bars all open, get back to normal. But the reality is covid is probably really bad in Thailand at the moment (with 40% of the 40,000 tests coming back positive), but people don't want to see it anymore, they don't want to see numbers like 100,000 positive cases.
Denial is the way forward.