That shows exactly how much they care about their people. They are not willing to let individuals be selfish and ruin their society with regards to Covid.
I fully support what they did.
I fully support what they did.
The initial COVID response in 2019 was to punish doctors reporting it. Such solidarity. Much caring.
The ruling group think they are enlighten more than everyone else and justified to use force/coercion to apply their will on other people (or just an excuse/scam to abuse power)
The idea actually works if, and only if, the ruling group has empathy for the population as a whole. Which - in spite of anti-government propaganda in the US - is at least partially possible.
It's catastrophic when the ruling ethic is narcissism and supremacism.
To summarize, you're on the wrong side.