The mistake is to think that this form of personal responsibility can be replaced.

This is very true. I have also noted a great many people who didn't have to substantially change their habits during lockdown, because they avoided the proscribed activity as a matter of course anyway. While these folks didn't suffer changes in their day to day lives to the degree many of us did, I think it would be a mistake for them to think that made the lockdowns acceptable.

The problem for them is it could go the other way, and people could be ordered to assemble instead of avoid assembling, which they would find substantially disruptive. The problem is that personal authority over our sociality has been usurped, and regardless of whether one finds it uncomfortable to be highly sociable or not, it is critically vital that one themselves determine the degree of sociality they undertake, that such authority not be seized by overlords.

It is basically the power to corral the herd that husbandmen have over barnyard animals, and no human person should suffer being merely livestock.

Even if being corralled in the feedlot isn't troubling, the chute to the slaughterhouse surely will be.

Be well