It does hurt less than you'd think. It's antivaxers' children the ones that suffer the most, but as long as they remain a minority, the risks of an epidemic ge

It does hurt less than you'd think. It's antivaxers' children the ones that suffer the most, but as long as they remain a minority, the risks of an epidemic getting out of control is very small. And no, we are not going to eliminate infectious disease any time soon. AFAIK, the only disease we have "eliminated" in recorded history is small pox; and what that means is that maybe a dozen governments have their stash of samples that they can turn in biological weapons... all while the rest of us slowly breed resistance out of the gene pool.