Condemned to repeat the past

Americans keep forgetting the lessons of history—of both the Cold War and the pandemic.

It has fallen to the World Health Organization to be the lone voice of reason in a widening epidemic of ignorance, irrationality and apparent memory loss about Covid-19. After pointing out early in the week that the scale of deaths it is causing can hardly justify Omicron being classified as “mild” or that it will be the last strain we face, the WHO is …