Technically only smallpox has been completely eradicated in humans. Polio is just almost eradicated.
Which, given how awful polio is as a disease, is still a huge goddamn win.
So much disinformation centers around “how can we ever completely stop it!?!?”
But we don’t talk about fire this way. Fire is inevitable - literally, fundamentally, inevitable. As long as humans live on Earth, or as long as humans require oxygen to live and energy to thrive, we will have fires, whether we intentionally make them or not.
Technically only smallpox has been completely eradicated in humans. Polio is just almost eradicated.
Which, given how awful polio is as a disease, is still a huge goddamn win.
So much disinformation centers around “how can we ever completely stop it!?!?”
But we don’t talk about fire this way. Fire is inevitable - literally, fundamentally, inevitable. As long as humans live on Earth, or as long as humans require oxygen to live and energy to thrive, we will have fires, whether we intentionally make them or not.
That doesn’t mean we stop trying to fight fires.
Polio types 2 and 3 have been eradicated but fair enough.