Originally Posted by Itsajob

The damage from this will come from the impact on the global economy as a response to the virus, not the actual virus. We could go to zero cases globally in a month, but the recovery could be slow. People all over the world have sunk their life savings into small businesses and restaurants. Many cannot go a month with little or no sales and will not be back. It will take time for others to enter the market and replace those jobs. Looking selfishly at our industry, there will likely be far fewer people coming out of this in a financial position to travel even if the fear is gone. We’re far enough down the rabbit hole now that it doesn’t really matter if the response was justified or hyped up panic. The damage is done.