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 An extra comic drawn by [[Randall]] for [https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/XKCD-Marks-the-Spot Bill Gates' blog] to celebrate World Polio Day. As noted, the disease {{w|polio}} has nearly been eradicated, with only a few isolated pockets remaining. Unlike diseases that are more difficult to treat, such as HIV, polio can be prevented easily by vaccination.
-[[Hairy]] treats polio as a disease that requires exotic methods to contain when, as [[Ponytail]] explains, polio can be effectively contained and eradicated using conventional methods. The joke is that Hairy densely refuses to accept the simple but effective conventional methods presented to him by Ponytail. He instead offers ridiculously complicated methods such as crowdsourcing, using apps and 3D printers, genetically engineering the common cold, and nanobots as an alternative, ignoring the tried-and-true conventional methods.
+[[Hairy]] treats polio as a disease that requires exotic methods to contain when, as [[Ponytail]] explains, polio can be effectively contained and eradicated using conventional methods. The joke is that Hairy densely refuses to accept the simple but effective conventional methods presented to him by Ponytail. He instead offers {{tvtropes|AwesomeButImpractical|ridiculously complicated (though rather awesome-sounding) methods}} such as crowdsourcing, using apps and 3D printers, genetically engineering the common cold, and nanobots as an alternative, ignoring {{tvtropes|BoringButPractical|the tried-and-true conventional methods}}.
 Through the comic, Randall also calls attention to the fact that continued awareness and financial support is necessary to completely eradicate polio. Ponytail even emphasizes that "decades of gains" could be lost if the medical community stops attacking polio.

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 | date      = October 22, 2015
 | title     = XKCD Marks the Spot
-| image     = example-image.png
+| image     = world_polio_day.png
 | titletext = World Polio Day XKCD comic
 | ldomain   = web.archive.org/web/20241130121757/https://www.gatesnotes.com/XKCD-Marks-the-Spot#
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 ==Explanation==
-An extra comic drawn by [[Debunking]] for [https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/XKCD-Marks-the-Spot Bill Gates' blog] to celebrate World Polio Day. As noted, the disease {{w|polio}} has nearly been eradicated, with only a few isolated pockets remaining. Unlike diseases that are more difficult to treat, such as HIV, polio can be prevented easily by vaccination.
+An extra comic drawn by [[Randall]] for [https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/XKCD-Marks-the-Spot Bill Gates' blog] to celebrate World Polio Day. As noted, the disease {{w|polio}} has nearly been eradicated, with only a few isolated pockets remaining. Unlike diseases that are more difficult to treat, such as HIV, polio can be prevented easily by vaccination.
 [[Hairy]] treats polio as a disease that requires exotic methods to contain when, as [[Ponytail]] explains, polio can be effectively contained and eradicated using conventional methods. The joke is that Hairy densely refuses to accept the simple but effective conventional methods presented to him by Ponytail. He instead offers ridiculously complicated methods such as crowdsourcing, using apps and 3D printers, genetically engineering the common cold, and nanobots as an alternative, ignoring the tried-and-true conventional methods.

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 | date      = October 22, 2015
 | title     = XKCD Marks the Spot
-| image     = yoshi.png
+| image     = example-image.png
 | titletext = World Polio Day XKCD comic
 | ldomain   = web.archive.org/web/20241130121757/https://www.gatesnotes.com/XKCD-Marks-the-Spot#

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 | date      = October 22, 2015
 | title     = XKCD Marks the Spot
-| image     = keroppi.png
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 | titletext = World Polio Day XKCD comic
 | ldomain   = web.archive.org/web/20241130121757/https://www.gatesnotes.com/XKCD-Marks-the-Spot#

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 | image     = world_polio_day.png
 | titletext = World Polio Day XKCD comic
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-* The original blog post on ''GatesNotes'' can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20241130121757/https://www.gatesnotes.com/XKCD-Marks-the-Spot here].
+* An archived version of the [https://://www.gatesnotes.com/XKCD-Marks-the-Spot here original blog post] on ''GatesNotes'' can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20241130121757/https://www.gatesnotes.com/XKCD-Marks-the-Spot here].
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