Yeah. Let people do what they want. When did centralization of power ever do anything good without horrible unintended consequences?
When we eradicated polio with the miracle of vaccinations and stopped having children in iron lungs
That was hardly the same thing. They tested for years, and then the Federal government left it to the states and did not mandate it.
Freedom to contaminate?
Yes. It’s what we called living before 2020.
Ah - so, we should not change our behavior based on new knowledge? Perhaps we should also allow chemical companies to dump toxic pollutants because we called that living before the clean air and water act...