A few months later, the fog would have lifted and the war would be over. The new flu would turn out to be less lethal than it might have been. The CDC would report that somewhere between forty and eighty million Americans had been infected but only 12,469 had died. Their judgment had been vindicated, and President Obama’s decision had worked out, and everyone would soon move on and forget about the pandemic that wasn’t. To Richard’s way of thinking, the fact that the decision happened to have worked out did not mean it was the right decision; in a funny way, it was alarming that it had worked
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