Reply #54: I'm predicting a readlly crazy panic-roller-coaster, actually,

[Ghost Dog]

especially in USA, regardless of the actual virulence of this now quite sure-to-spread epidemic.

I see the WHO, as at 10 hours ago last I looked, still hesitating... no doubt to an extent on economic grounds. So, tell me, the economic effect of closing borders all over the world will be?

...Perhaps (together with pre-existing factors) the beginning of the end of laissez-faire so-called "globalisation".

(Edit: or, perhaps, they'll make a calculation and decide to just let it go, run its course, and take the hit).

Africa, for starters, is going to need much genuinely altruistic aid.

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