In the coming weeks, we will issue further guidance on what you can and cannot do

Are those the words of a dictator?

Of course they are.

A political leader does not use these words with a free people.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/03/11/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-anniversary-of-the-covid-19-shutdown/

h/t Strategos