I agree with you in some aspects but I think there's a big difference between a society becoming "woke" and a society being awakened.
Yes, I agree that people are idiots, but I also think that most of this idiocy is used, abused and manipulated by the media. There's a LOT of misinformation out there that people just gobble up because they don't have the inquiring nature to ask "hmmm, could something else actually be going on?" And I'm not specifically talking about Covid here, but there is a lot happening that we are not being told, that I am pretty convinced of and I have a strong suspicion that whatever the actual truth of the matters are, they're probably a lot worse than what is getting into the news cycle.
Mask mandates haven't worked because they are ineffective against a virus. Lockdowns may slow the spread of a disease but they won't eradicate one. If Covid was engineered in a lab and leaked out whether intentionally or not, I'm almost certain that it wasn't the only thing that could have leaked from that lab and that was probably the reason for the mass panic in the first place and the lockdowns, perhaps they were assuming that it was only one of ? number of things that could have got out. Obviously this is hypothetical here and we'll probably never find out exactly what the real situation was at the time.
So yes. Idiots: Governments allowing and funding gain of function research ie: biological warfare agent research is a good definition of idiocy in my mind.
It's kind of like that saying "if it ain't broke why fix it?" Why in the world are governments researching viruses with the sole purpose of finding out what the infectiousness in humans would be if the virus wasn't adapted to humans to begin with? That's just asking for trouble.
So yes - people aren't doing the right thing. People in power who are meant to serve society, keep them safe for one - aren't doing the right as in the morally and ethically sound thing, so to assume that the rest of us would is kind of the pot calling the cocoa tree green. And are they taking responsibility for it? Hmmm I doubt that there will be accountability because, well - politics and politicians are the most slithery slippery kind of creatures there are, granted not all of them, but most of them.
Can you tell that I'm pissed off? Everyone should be.