> It's also risible to suggest that any of that nonsense has seriously hindered eradication, caseloads in that region remain very low, the hotspots are elsewhere.

It has killed off trust in Western vaccination programs not just in Pakistan but also in Africa and a whole other lot of places. The ripple effects from that have been immense...

There is a reason why the label "medical" should not be abused. The US campaign against Bin Laden, Hamas using hospitals to hide command centers and hostages or as a shooting range, Israeli agents infiltrating a hospital to execute suspected Hamas operatives, German police placing Red Crosses on their medical vans [1]... the list of abuses is long, and at least for war-related action international agreements actually ban that kind of abuse - we're seeing in Palestine right now why.

[1] https://www.l-iz.de/leben/faelle-unfaelle/2021/12/ausgekreuz...