I mean, lockdowns really were a massive violation of basic civil rights. And that's okay. In extreme circumstances, this sort of civil rights violation might be justified. We literally enslaved people in the 1940s and forced them to go liberate Europe and conquer Japan, and nobody thinks that was unwarranted. That was a totally fine policy response to a genuine national emergency, but we would not be justified in enslaving people in peacetime.
Likewise, covid-19 was a real life national emergency. Lockdowns, social distancing, masks mandates, etc. were all good policy choices to slow down the virus and stop hospitals from being overwhelmed. That threat has since passed. We're at most a few weeks from the covid equivalent of VE/VJ day, and arguably we're already there. It's time for policy to reflect that and for us to go back to letting people live their lives.