> "the government" .... "experts" Have you been living under an anti-intellectual rock for over two centuries? Modern representative republics and bureaucracie

> "the government" .... "experts" Have you been living under an anti-intellectual rock for over two centuries? Modern representative republics and bureaucracies were invented for this exact reason. We elect people we trust to implement bureaucracies in the best interest of the people so that we can receive guidance from real experts that we can trust. This democratic system of electing representatives and appointing experts to regulatory agencies has eliminated polio and smallpox, improved automobile safety a hundred fold, improved air and water quality across the country by a thousand fold, made safe air travel possible, all but eliminated industrial scale food poisoning, led the country to several moon landings, and countless other achievements. This system has also decided that vaccination is critically important to public health based on decades, if not centuries, of hard evidence and that no one has absolute freedom over themselves or their children because there exist life altering consequences for everyone in the case of vaccines. If you don't like that social contract, you are free to elect different representatives or move to the autonomous regions of Somalia (you'll really want to get vaccinated though).