if you can go to the gym at 3:00 am, but you can't get a beer at 23:30 at night, your government isn't really trying to end a pandemic, they're just trying to enforce an arbitrary system of morals on you - as they appease a certain far right, conservative demographic that wants authority and order over freedom and anarchy.
they tell you it's not permanent, but i'm not so sure.
there's a lot of people out there that would like it to be, and they need to be resisted.