I'm disappointed that some I've come across are trying to cast SK's measures as tyrannical, as though it's not authoritarian to shut down the economy and force

I'm disappointed that some I've come across are trying to cast SK's measures as tyrannical, as though it's not authoritarian to shut down the economy and force everyone to stay home. Cooperating with contact tracing is a lesser temporary loss of freedom than not working. It's not even clear to me to what extent it helped, all the articles I've read repeatedly state that early testing in itself has been the deciding factor. In theory then, if the infection rate were temporarily quashed, couldn't this be implemented? And both sides of the political spectrum are behaving this way, the right-wing downplays the risk and postures that a lockdown will lead to a worse outcome, and many dems pretend a lockdown is the only thing that could have realistically been done, looking to SK like "oh, well they're draconian, that could never happen".