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The Pandemic and its Economic Impact

Every misery, including a pandemic, creates grief. Not many tastes are usually recorded from calamities, except a list of numbers: deaths, damages, losses, and the like.

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Ahmad Erani Yustika
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Traders work during the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 18, 2020 at Wall Street in New York City. - Wall Street stocks plunged again March 18, 2020 as the economic toll from the coronavirus mounts and economists warn of a deep recession.The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 6.3 percent, or more than 1,300 points, to close the day at 19,903.50. The index sank by as much as 10 percent earlier in the session, which saw trading halted yet again.

Every misery, including a pandemic, creates grief. Not many tastes are usually recorded from calamities, except a list of numbers: deaths, damages, losses, and the like.

Statistics tells the scale of the disaster being experienced. If the number of the casualties is getting bigger, the misery being caused is surging. Similarly, related to material losses. On the contrary, no description of tastes that narrates the depth of the wound is revealed: unexplained anxiety, acute depression, or life expectancy that disappears.

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