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I guess it comes down to your definition of "forced". People were forced to get the vaccine in the same way they are forced to not walk around with a gun indiscriminately firing bullets - you're welcome to do it in the privacy of your own home (as long as your home is big enough that the bullets won't leave it) but if you want to participate in a society then you are forced to follow some rules.
What other definition of 'forced' is there, other than being coerced to do something against your will? Thats the definition of forced.
This was just reported this morning by a national press gallery media: "Incomplete figures show nearly 1,600 Canadian soldiers, sailors and air crew resigned, were discharged or faced discipline for defying Covid orders" Sounds pretty forced to me.
And recall what touched off the whole convoy event? The government insisted that cross border truckers, the same guys who had been praised for keeping our international trade going and supplying our stores for the previous two years were going to be FORCED to get covid vaccines. These are guys who spend all their time in a truck cab and barely interact with anyone except the guy running the forklift to load them in the US but suddenly, after two years, Trudeau decided that to "participate in society" as you put it, they needed to get vaxxed. It didnt make any sense at that point, still doesnt. Thus the spark that ignited a huge protest. We were tired of being forced to do things that no longer made sense even if they did in the beginning.
These people can't understand there could be differing viewpoints to their own, whether they agree with them or not.
Libertarians are basically Nazis in their eyes as ironic as that sounds.
Libertarians, in general, want to reap the benefits of society without paying the costs. I don't imagine Amazon would have grown to the size it did if there weren't ports for the ships to dock in, roads for the trucks to drive on, an internet to advertise on, and all the rest of it, yet they feel beset upon for being asked to pay the taxes that help provide all those things.
Anti-vaxer truckers are the same, but writ small and in human form.
They believe government create most of the monopolies via regulation. You fan disagree but it doesn't make them Nazis.
You seem to be wandering a little far afield here. We're talking about Libertarians and government regulations for public health, not Libertarians and government regulation in business. And while I don't think they're Nazis, I still think they're wrong, in general, and for the same reasons.