# proposal to minimize economic impact of pandemics

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposal-to-minimize-economic-impact-of-pandemics/849512>\
**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [March 15, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposal-to-minimize-economic-impact-of-pandemics/849512 "2020-03-15T02:02:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jim\_Peebles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Jim\_Peebles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_Peebles)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposal-to-minimize-economic-impact-of-pandemics/849512/14 "2020-03-15T19:47:19Z")

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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> Your OP talks about shutting down all commercial airports around the world. How disruptive do you think that’s going to be? How many large events will need to be cancelled? How will that affect the restaurants and hotels and advertisers?

I think instead of complete cancelation, going from a crowd of say 60000 to 0. Instead you might have a crowd of 40000.

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