> They are over because people eventually decided they were done with them.
People didn't "eventually decide" anything.
People accepted that Covid was a pandemic of a new virus and some temporary measures would have to be put in place to avoid a potential repeat of the Black Plague. Reasonable thing to do with a completely new human virus.
So governments put those measures in place <<temporarily>>.
Just like when a storm is coming and you close all the windows, all the doors, make sure that everything important is inside, etc.
Again, reasonable people always knew that strict measures were temporary.
Unreasonable people just assumed we'd be boarded up with wooden planks like in China, for the rest of our lives.
