The point is they are related. In a normal well-run freedom-respecting society, the leaders would make speeches and statements telling everyone they should get vaccinated, and most everyone would go along with it. There would be small contingents that rejected it for whatever crazy or not crazy reasons, but for the most part humans are social animals and the social default would be to just go do it. But rather than leading during Covid, Trump used it as if it was another campaign issue. He sowed the division and stoked the crazy that validated people's hesitations, and made those not getting the vaccine a much larger contingent than they otherwise would have been. So the bureaucracy, the corporate government, and the incoming administration upped their authoritarianism to try to get people back on board, engaging in the overreactions you're calling out.