The world economy wasn't as globalized back then.
Economic effects of SARS: - Retail and travel sales fell a lot - FDI in affected countries goes down - Costs from disease prevention rise (not necessarily bad for GDP) Below is from "Economic Impact of SARS: The Case of Hong Kong" https://hub.hku.hk/bitstream/10722/88855/1/content.pdf …pic.twitter.com/vtZXajUWDq
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Agreed. There are many reasons why
#Wuflu will be worse or better than SARS - likely lower mortality rate - higher rate of transmission - ecommerce reduces effect on retail etc etc etc
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