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by Fomite 1915 days ago
Smallpox and Rinderpest.

Polio and Measles are doable, and at this point more logistical and political problems than biological ones.

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The “logistical” and “political” problems being that they’re endemic in countries with major political and economic instability, where the locals have a bad tendency to kill the people doing the vaccinations.

It isn’t a trivial problem. And oh yeah: Covid is in those countries now, too.

I never said they were trivial, and have argued exactly the opposite elsewhere. But it remains that they are logistical and political challenges, not biological ones.