That is what I see too. From the moment that the whole world was on Lock-Down, History changed. Sweden was a strange outlier but later added incident-based behavior rules as well. I don't think the Lock-Downs did any good, but now they are part of the countermeasures that "have been taken to fight the globe Pandemic of COVID19". None can start dragging all the governments before the court in order to demand consequences for civil rights violations, there's no court big enough to hear such a case. Humanity vs Its Government #getwracked
Lessen have to be learned, consequences have to be taken, and a new Generation of Politics and Medical Professionals has to rise, and then, only after decades down the road from now, we'll correct the past.
There are several European countries who haven't always curtailed to the EC, there are several that never signed onto a universal constitution. Like I said I think the implementation of a lot of stuff coincided with them having gained more power than not, meaning having the greater control mechanism. But people can always be driven to rise to the occasion if backed into a corner they don't like and power in that regard can be reversed, it, as history has shown, sometimes ends up coming down to those willing to die for a cause.