It is very relevant. It is because antivaxers created a violent and hostile environment that forces the opposition to become draconian.
On a more serious note, of course it’s true. Blocking traffic, picketing hospitals, calling for the death of medical professionals is violent behavior.
Most of the hospital protests were also in reaction to mandates for staff, as well as the absolutely psychotic and vindictive policy many of them adopted of refusing to provide transplant surgery to the unvaccinated.
It was a hell of a lot more than “a minor inconvenience”.