>Anons have lives and can't sit in front of an image board for a year and a half.
Ahahahaha, this has been going on a lot longer than a year and a half pilgrim.
>Yet public health initiatives w/o vaccination have never eradicated a disease much less forced the etiologic agent in extinction.
But they're not extinct. They've been closely held by every nation that had the capability. What was driven to extinction was our immunity/resistance to said disease's and now we're vulnerable as hell to a mass extinction event by any number of natural or engineered pathogens.
The cosmic joke will be when some bastards re-release smallpox and everyone over 65 survives because they still have immunity.
>Pin worms
Yeah, got them all the time. Parents gave us little purple pills that must have been gentian violet. Never had an itch like that. Thanks a lot for the memories.