Fine.

UK eradicated Rabies. I'm pretty sure we all agree Rabies has substantial animal reservoirs, right?

Rabies only has animal reservoirs, it isn't spread person-to-person. And it appears that the localities that have eradicated rabies have done so by dropping animal baits with oral vaccines.

So... small, mostly deforested island countries may have a good chance against animal-borne viruses that have inexpensive edible vaccines.

The wealthiest country in the world hasn't managed to eradicate rabies. Covid isn't going to end this way.

Leprosy.

There's a lot of diseases we've eradicated. Surely something will come along that you don't have an excuse for.

Do you believe that covid continues because of excuses or weak wills or something psychological? Or that all "diseases" are equivalent? Perhaps I should read more into your confounding of cowpox with smallpox.

Leprosy is bacterial and treated with antibiotics. Same with bubonic plague, if that was next on your list.

> Do you believe that covid continues because of excuses or weak wills or something psychological?

I believe COVID19 continues because we have a ~60% vaccination rate in the USA, which is far below the needed vaccination rate to slow down the spread of the disease.

A lot of these other diseases brought up have substantial 95%+ vaccination rates, or treatments that can hamper the spread.

No disease is equivalent to another. Smallpox and Measles had much higher spread R0 / replication rates. Others are bacterial. Cholera is water-borne and solved with other methodologies.