Are there good locally decodable _erasure_ codes
Locally decodable codes and locally decodable erasure codes are qualitatively equivalent. Both imply $\Omega(m)$ many disjoint $q$-tuples from which one can recover a given message coordinate, where $m$ is the codeword length and $q$ is the query complexity. A formal argument appears in Section 3.4 of Kerenidis and de Wolf's paper.