Are you a “mask slacker”?

Lessons for “our” pandemic from another great pandemic a century ago.

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Economists were projecting that the U.S. economy would take off after Labor Day. What they were not counting on was the Delta variant, which is now driving the resurgence of Covid-19 cases, which, in turn, is grounding our economy in many ways, including fewer hirings.

While we can’t predict what happens in the months ahead, to our economy and to this persistent pandemic, we can draw some lessons from the past — from a previous pandemic that killed 675,000 Americans and between 50 million to 100 million people worldwide. Of course, I am referring to the Spanish flu pandemic that devastated the world a century ago.

To better understand that pandemic and draw lessons from it for our pandemic, we spoke to Mr. John M. Barry, the author of The Great Influenza, a book that prompted President George W. Bush to prepare for the next great pandemic.

The accomplishments, awards, scholarly works and prestigious scientific memberships of Mr. Barry, a former football coach, are simply… amazing! I encourage you to read all about them on his website. Also, click this link to listen to my podcast conversation with him, which is also available on Apple and Spotify, and on…