Even if you go back to the beginning of this, in January and February, there was still a widespread belief that the government cannot and should not do all these things. Then they just did it after China sent out a few videos of people welding doors shut and nurses dropping dead or whatever (hmm how many young people have dropped dead in the west like that?), and nobnody stopped them, and now they still are doing it.
I mean, you're not from the US, but after 9/11, the government seized all these powers that everybody on 9/10 would have agreed it does not have. Yet they seized it, and 20 years later, they still have those powers. That's kind of the way that this stuff works.
COVID is objectively not nearly as deadly, in any way, as the spanish flu. Spanish flu killed millions of young people, while COVID just does not do that. I know you'll just ignore this and troll but I've been 100% cosnistent on this from the beginning. If COVID was killing 25 year olds the way the Spanish Flu was, I would be way more amendable to extreme countermeasures (and the government put restrictions in now it didn't for an objectively far deadlier disease 100 years ago). That's been my point from the beginning - not all pandemics are the same, it's about being proportional. If something is going around, then people need to look at it and weigh the risks. What we are doing now is like banning cars because people die in accidents.