It depends where you were, but millions of Americans lost their jobs or their businesses because of non-scientific extrajudicial decrees. That is tyranny. Just because something could have been worse, doesn't mean it was acceptable.

I'm not using "tyranny" as a buzzword. The point is that many governors acted outside of their constitutional authority and there was no recourse for their victims. In a free society, our liberties are presumed and any infringements on them require due process. Whether or not they had our best interests at heart is completely irrelevant to whether the way they exercised power was tyrannical.