But in this case the costs (people dying, or in many cases losing months of their lives to extreme fatigue, other health problems, the overloading of medical infrastructure causing many other problems, etc) far, far outweigh the costs of a hypothetical tyranny situation.
Except none of these "experts" had any clue if their costly measures would work at all. And to this day you can't look at a chart and see a major difference between anywhere. Virus is gonna virus. You cannot control it.
Simply put, you were lied to. Break out of your echo chamber and listen to people calling you out. They are right, you are not.
There is more to life than a myopic focus on exactly one form of illness.