Mises Wire
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Jim Fedako
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Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. The CDC estimates that 61,000 Americans died from the flu during the 2017–18 flu season (with a range of 46,000 to 95,000 deaths). Few of us even remember that event. Stores stayed open, folks met and worked, and everyone lived as normal. Taking sixty-one thousand deaths as our baseline, how