
The one sure way out of this mess
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Richard Galant writes that the flu pandemic that spiraled around the world a century ago had been underway for a year and a half when a University of Missouri professor made an admission: the effort to fight the disease had been a "dismal failure." Nothing had worked, in contrast to today's Covid-19 pandemic, in which vaccines have been proven effective.
Nothing had worked. "We must admit that no measures adopted controlled the course of the pandemic," Mazyck P. Ravenel told an audience of health workers in October, 1919. "It spread with lightning like speed, went where it listed, and ceased its ravages only when available material was exhausted."
Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani bitterly clashed over age and experience Thursday in the final debate before New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, as Cuomo warned that electing the progressive state assemblyman is unprepared for the job and Mamdani hammered the former governor over scandals during his time in Albany.

On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security posted a striking graphic on its official X account. Uncle Sam, a symbol of American patriotism, is depicted nailing a poster to a wall that reads, “Help your country… and yourself.” Written underneath the poster is the sentence, “REPORT ALL FOREIGN INVADERS,” and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement hot line.