I understand where you're coming from, I really do. It's rough to give up personal liberties for the "greater good", even though we already do on a daily basis. You can't run red light, you can't dodge taxes, ...

I don't think there was much malice in these new COVID-related laws. Sure there was some cronyism for financial gain in their execution, but that's not the point. I think they were motivated by an seemingly ever-increasing aversion to any form of risk and responsibility, both on governmental as well as societal level.

I'd love to understand and internally evaluate every law and practice that is put upon me, take my own responsibilities based on a thorough understanding of the issue. However, the world has grown too complex for any individual to understand why we are supposed to do the things that we are told to. It has become impossible to even be aware of every law.

I don't know what the "solution" to this extreme risk aversion is. I wonder if there is some historical precedent of a society undergoing the same tendencies and how that eventually got solved. Or didn't.