I remember I read Randall Munroe's What If to my daughter a few years ago and there was a chapter about the common cold. The conclusion was was that eliminating

I remember I read Randall Munroe's What If to my daughter a few years ago and there was a chapter about the common cold. The conclusion was was that eliminating it was impractical for economic reasons - we couldn't have survived a global lockdown, and the virus mutates too fast to create an efficient vaccine. It felt a bit surreal seeing testing the scenarios described by Munroe in practice.