How to prevent media library calls

[jcc5018]

I have flag icons attached to countries and state models which utilize the media library. But when trying to create a simple dependent dropdown for countries and states, all I need is the name and ID. No where in my livewire component do i reference media and the related flags, yet they are being called.

How do i prevent the media library queries when they are not needed for a particular query. I don't want to add the "with('media') to get rid of n+1 errors, when i never asked for media in the first place. Thanks