Who is more cautious?

   You don't understand how science works.  I am not an elementary school child (or like one or like you) who needs to pick some "authority" to follow.  Except where government has managed to pass some strange law I am the authority for all the decisions I make and all the money I spend.  (The buck stops here, not on the president's desk.)  The pandemic is an entirely different emergency situation for which no one (afaik) was prepared.  I recognize it as such and am very cautious (more so than you) as this thread points out.

   Even basic science is so far over your head you never learned to take any personal responsibility.  Many people would rather not have any personal responsibility.  Some people actually liked being slaves because they could just follow simple instructions and it was the fault of someone else if the house fell down.  Especially today many people prefer to imagine there is some "authority" like the government over them that they can blindly follow.

   Your question that seeing we are not capable of science, which scientific "authority" should we follow has no answer.  If you are not capable of science yourself you will be doomed to wrong choice after wrong choice.  I however will not because I am capable of science myself.  You will not take advice from me, not because of any failing of mine, but because of your own failing.  I don't have a lot of advice anyway beyond understanding the importance of minding my own business and how science actually works.

   Your attitude would be fine and perfectly acceptable politically if you could learn how to properly avoid minding the business of anyone else.  If a vaccine is found and you if can get it, you no longer have any excuse to mind the business of anyone else.  You can believe in whatever you want, just don't expect any blind allegiance from others.

   The reason health care costs were and are so very high in the United States is that mentally retarded people entirely dependent on government for their every move still have not realized they are not qualified to manage the health care of other people and intend to write blank checks to the medical field.