It's not a binary. People's proclivities are a spectrum. Not all are over-reaching tyrants. The opinion on masks is all over the place. If you're going to try make exactly two pigeon holes in which to sort it, there are people who think people should wear masks, and they want to make everyone else wear them. And there are people of varying degrees of belief about masks, some of whom think people SHOULD wear masks, but still fall into the pigeon hole of not mandating them.Yes, we should be nice to the over-reaching tyrants and forgive the errors of their ways.
And even calling ALL the former "overreaching tyrants" is at least a little hyperbolic.