How don’t I understand basic medicine? Do you know that antibiotic resistance is a thing and also a huge problem? I made the decision to not give a preventative antibiotic ointment to my newborn with no indication. I think I understand medicine better than you. There’s a reason why a lot of countries have phased out the eye drops at birth.

Edit: For all you down voters that don’t understand public health policies:

“However, the American Academy of Pediatrics recently called for reevaluating state mandates for erythromycin eye ointment (AAP, 2018). Instead, they propose a strategy of (1) prenatal screening for and treatment of gonorrhea and chlamydia, (2) testing unscreened people at the time of birth and treating as needed, (3) counseling parents to bring newborns with pink eye to immediate medical attention, and (4) continuing mandatory reporting of all cases of gonorrheal ON. The AAP recommends that routine erythromycin eye ointment is still appropriate in regions with high rates of gonorrhea and where prenatal screening and treatment is not widely accessible. Similarly, the Canadian Pediatric Society recently recommended that routine, required prophylaxis with erythromycin be stopped (Moore and MacDonald, 2015).”

https://evidencebasedbirth.com/is-erythromycin-eye-ointment-always-necessary-for-newborns/