@Tealightsandd
This level of government intrusion into people's private lives is far beyond what has been imposed in most other similar countries, where typically Covid laws have either not reached into the private home at all or exemptions have been made for close family and couples.
Well kind of not. Other counties, i.e. France, had travel limitations, so unless you lived very close to your family or friends, you wouldn't be able to see them (in or outside the home). They also had curfews so people had to be home by certain time in the evening unless exemption, which required written proof (and police checked).
They have had travel restrictions during the strictest lockdown periods, but only for relatively short periods (month or two at a time) before being lifted again.
And yes they have also had curfews for longer, but it's important to note that that just means you can't be out in public after the curfew time, not that you have to have returned to your own home. So you could still legally go and visit or stay with someone in another part of the country, as long as you weren't travelling after the curfew.
Essentially the principle in France, and much of Europe, is that Covid laws only apply to activity in public, not within homes.
The idea that became mainstream in this country - that it is right for the government to comprehensively unlock the economy while maintaining a total prohibition of gatherings in private homes (even for a 'gathering' of two people, and for more than a year in some areas!) - is just not present in at all in most of Europe.