@Pat Haven't had to wear a mask for months now. Only public transport still requires it, and most people do either cloth or custom made.
In fact, as of today social distancing isn't required anymore. We'll see how it goes, but the vaccination % of my country's fairly high, so it might not be too bad. We accept that people can get sick, but so long they don't end up in IC or get Long Covid, it's acceptable. The vaccinations help with lowering those chances.
People are required (and it's still a hot debate here) to show proof of vaccination or proof of testing before entering restaurants and events. We call that the 'coronapas' and can be easily done with a QR code. Either on phone or printed beforehand.
Relaxed restrictions didn't work too well here in the states. During the past several days we've had a number of deaths equivalent to the 9/11 attacks each day. Very sad.
There are a lot of reasons, but mainly:
1. poor crisis planning/management by leadership
2. corruption
3. public mistrust
4. widespread lack of critical reasoning skills
Also, I believe we've had an intense, prolonged exogenous disinformation/psych-ops campaign directed at us which has exacerbated most of the above.
@Pat Possibly because vaccination % isn't high enough and/or people didn't respect rules like social distancing at the start?