Has Covid19 given the governments de facto controls over our lives impinging on everything we strive to do?

We can't travel, we can't shop or socialise, despite being fully vaccinated, without some form of measure being in certain ways wifully followed in a draconian kind of 'war footing' which takes away the very freedoms we are supposed to have and in certain ways, we are being made automatons as the facts are translated by governments voting or imposing rules that guarantee their power over us, like a new form of dictatorship.