You are conflating good advice with behavior mandates.
It's OK to advise me that gambling can be dangerously addictive, or that getting vaccinated is a good way to avoid getting sick.
The government didn't force anyone to get vaccinated.
That's semantics. They forced countless employers to mandate their employees to get vaccinated. At which point you went jobless or bent the knee.
I forced my employer to mandate vaccines. Government had no part in that.
In your defense, at the time you probably thought the vaccines were super effective at preventing transmission though. Now that we know they're not, most of the private sectors companies have quietly dropped the mandates, although you still have the health related ones that do a certain percentage of Medicaid/Medicare work that require it.