I think it would even be a net ecological boon if we could actually exterminate mosquitoes – tremendous effort goes into suppressing mosquitoes, all of it with

I think it would even be a net ecological boon if we could actually exterminate mosquitoes – tremendous effort goes into suppressing mosquitoes, all of it with significant collateral damage to the environment. But I don't think we actually have the ability, do we? We have some promising approaches, though it's unclear to me how good any of those approaches are at getting down to zero mosquitoes. I suppose we'd need better detection as well so that we could incrementally eradicate the mosquitoes and then quickly address any resurgences.