I wish covid had some of the traits of Poliio:
Polio is transmitted fecal-oral and less often oral-oral. The chinese government said Covid only spread from that route, so internationally our guard was lowered a bit. Airborne transmission that covid actually has is much more contagious for first world countries.
Polio’s only host is humans. So no worry of other reservoirs.
Polio is not known for asymptomatic transmission. But it can be transmitted by those with symptoms that are not noticeable. So Polio is a little better than covid in this regards. Covid transmits presymptomatically.
Covid is going to be more difficult to get under control than Polio. But science has advanced in the 50-70 years since (Polio peak in US was late 1950s).
I think it will happen in regions and perhaps the world. But will require high vaccine rates snd likely boosters adapted to the strains that are winning. But it could also become endemic like the flu if we have too many unvaccinated or no border controls
We eliminated smallpox and it was very transmissible by airborne, skin, saliva, blood, etc. So eliminating an airborne virus from existence ( beyond national labs) is possible.