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12. It hasn't ever completely gone away.

Fri Feb 12, 2021, 07:34 PM

Feb 2021

Some countries still have polio, albeit mostly third world countries. But yes, it took more than three decades to mostly eradicate it from our country. At one time the experts thought measles was eradicated also, but then it reared it's ugly head once again when some people wouldn't vaccinate.

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Doctors warn that Covid will become endemic and people need to learn to live with it [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2021 OP

More good news. :( Irish_Dem Feb 2021 #1

Typhoid, malaria, Dengue Fever and Ebola have been with us for a long time. (just to name abqtommy Feb 2021 #2

SARS and MERS, to mention two, will take another run at us one day soon. Blue_true Feb 2021 #15

Watched Modern Marvels program today dweller Feb 2021 #3

It hasn't ever completely gone away. llmart Feb 2021 #12

Yes, but we won't be living in nightmare pandemic mode forever. Initech Feb 2021 #4

Not smallpox. Eradicated in 77/79. nt Maru Kitteh Feb 2021 #17

Yeah but didn't that circulate among anti-vaxxers for a while? Initech Feb 2021 #19

No. It's eradicated. Gone. Exists only in two Maru Kitteh Feb 2021 #21

Good! Initech Feb 2021 #23

I would happily volunteer to dig a hole until my shovel Maru Kitteh Feb 2021 #26

Also, smallpox had a 30% mortality rate. THIRTY PERCENT. You would Maru Kitteh Feb 2021 #22

With intentional inoculation that toll dropped to about 5%. NutmegYankee Feb 2021 #30

Just one more reason to get your CV19 vax! Maru Kitteh Feb 2021 #32

It was 2 decades later that cowpox was recognized as a way to prevent smallpox. NutmegYankee Feb 2021 #34

I think that was measles AwakeAtLast Feb 2021 #37

The flu is and we get a shot every year and live with it gollygee Feb 2021 #5

You are exactly right, my dear gollygee! Thank you for stating it so clearly. ♥ CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2021 #6

Yes everyone is saying that we'll have to get booster shots every year. Initech Feb 2021 #8

No biggie shanti Feb 2021 #35

Fauci and others have been saying this for months Quixote1818 Feb 2021 #7

Yeah exactly. Initech Feb 2021 #11

I have to say, it was nice not getting a cold or flu or anything this past year Quixote1818 Feb 2021 #41

There has not been a case of smallpox in over 40 yrs womanofthehills Feb 2021 #42

Yeah I'll correct that. Initech Feb 2021 #43

That's why the strategy must be two-fold, vaccines and treatments. WarGamer Feb 2021 #9

I'm going to permenently sew a mask on my face with a Singer sewing machine. magicarpet Feb 2021 #10

Comes as no surprise. Blue_true Feb 2021 #13

WORDspectively... Endemic vs Epidemic vs Pandemic.... TigressDem Feb 2021 #14

I believe that scientists are using endemic in this case to say that human Blue_true Feb 2021 #16

What is worrisome about Covid is the way it keeps mutating. TigressDem Feb 2021 #18

Yes, Trump deserves a jail cell for his handling of SARS-COV-2. Blue_true Feb 2021 #20

Totally. TigressDem Feb 2021 #24

We have a lot of really stupid people in this country. Blue_true Feb 2021 #25

Because that is the way SOME leaders like to keep Sheeple. TigressDem Feb 2021 #28

Any smart rich person would be working hard to help address Blue_true Feb 2021 #33

Smart and Rich don't always go together because GREED keeps them apart. TigressDem Feb 2021 #36

You are right about rich and smart often not going together. Blue_true Feb 2021 #38

There will be new and more effective vaccines to control it and its mutations Wicked Blue Feb 2021 #27

But there are so many fools now who won't get vaccinated. milestogo Feb 2021 #29

We need laws mandating the vaccine unless there is a medical exemption. Wicked Blue Feb 2021 #31

Question. Do you remember if any laws on vaccination existed Blue_true Feb 2021 #39

I could not work in my college dining hall without proof that I was tuberculosis-free Wicked Blue Feb 2021 #40