You were not allowed to go to restaurants, hotels, cinemas or theatres. Or work in sensitive areas like hospitals (in my country this was even only true for new hires, not for people who were already on the job).

Yes. You were also constantly threatened by the media and government, forced to take “covid test” and then locked up because of false positive result, or even sent to a “health camp” in some countries. All that because you didn’t accept their precious “vaccine” that was “offered” by them.

All those things are involved in living a normal life.

In most situations you could also just show proof you had a negative test in the past week.