You might want to rethink some of what you have said here. Smallpox was already on the decline *before* the advent of the smallpox vaccine. The principle of herd immunity was observed and asserted *before* any vaccines existed. There is more and more evidence emerging (many have done the research) to show that vaccines haven't necessarily benefited us at all, and they haven't been the drivers of eradicating disease.

Government has no business being involved in anyone's health decisions. And from a constitutional perspective, they have no authority to be.

While it could easily be argued that sanitation is an issue for State governments, it certainly does not belong to the federal government whose primary purposes are supposed to be foreign relations and trade, protecting our borders, and ensuring fair trade practices between the states. There is little more with which the Constitution tasks the federal government (but most people are mostly ignorant of the actual content of the Constitution and the extent to which it grants the federal government power).

I do not agree that we've had "100+ years of success", so we are coming from different perspectives. As to Covid, it wasn't simply an inability to admit ignorance - it was a desire to exert dominance. I wrote about it early on, as even Fauci had co-authored a public journal paper stating that it would be like a bad flu season. This was reformatted from a Facebook post I had made in March 2020 regarding Covid: curetsky.substack.com/p…

Even the shots have no scientific backing, but that did not stop the "public health" officials from pushing that narrative and shutting down others. I wrote at length about the problems with the shots here: curetsky.substack.com/p… because from a strictly immunologic perspective, they *can't* work, and they stand only to cause harm. Yet they're still being pushed and doctors still refuse to consider the harm they have caused and continue to cause. It's always anything but the shots. curetsky.substack.com/p…