All that matters is that - generally - the politicians and media opposed to these protests supported the 2020 protests and encouraged people to violate stay-at-home measures at the then-height of the pandemic - pre-vaccine - because they claimed that cause overrode the Covid exposure risk.

And they wonder why large swathes of the public find it difficult to trust them.

Ask after truckers start burning down neighborhood grocery stores and looting, threatening residents to make proper salute, and tearing drivers out of vehicles to beat them.

Weak, unnecessary whataboutism that isn’t from OP, doesn’t add anything to the conversation, and doesn’t answer the question.

You are the one who compared the two. Pointing out points on which they are not analogous is perfectly fair game. Calling an inappropriate comparison whataboutism when you are the one who raised the comparison is dishonest.