Just as an aside, eradicating small pox really doesn't get enough press. The day the last case of small pox happened should be a global holiday celebration. It

Just as an aside, eradicating small pox really doesn't get enough press. The day the last case of small pox happened should be a global holiday celebration. It is probably the greatest achievement of humanity in the last few hundred years, and is a gift to all future humans with unbounded upside. Sure we could have done it earlier, better, with more equality etc, but we still did it and we did it everywhere. I try to remember this on the days when the world seems to be going to hell.