False choice. There are all kinds of laws that restrict individual freedom for the sake of public safety, such that schoolchildren be vaxxed, you don't get to drive drunk, run red lights, stop signs, drive without being buckled up, with impunity.
Neither do you get to riot and break into the Capitol to overturn an election, with impunity
Trump politicized the Covid response, irresponsible fuck that he is, and you freedumb assholes responded with your childish 'you can't make me do this' stance, to the detriment of the public health, because why? You fancy yourselves some kind of fucking Bravehearts?
Nobody with any sense views you as such, but rather as the not very bright, selfish, ignorant, critical thinking skills deficient, too easily frightened pricks that you clearly are.
It is a free society vs a dictatorship