This has all happened in the last 20 years.
It’s not something our government did hundreds of years ago.
The government, in these vaccine cases, is not the citizens of The United States.
It is a few people in a department making decisions based on politics, budgets and their personal beliefs and feelings.
Trust them at your risk.
I don't blame govt so much for this, as the insurance industry. Insurance has infiltrated the minds of nearly everyone. We are all our brothers' keepers now, and they are ours. Liability is more to be feared than hell fire. Heck, I just bought a small recliner and very little assembly required but the instructions had it in big bold letters that I'd better have two people get it out of the box and put it together...not because they don't want me to break a nail. And watch out for that hot coffee, it could burn! It all translates to, "our insurance company made us write this warning."