Top economists were saying the stock market was gonna make a correction, and we could go into a minor recession, but with the turn of events whether they were correct we'll never know. Three things could have happened. This virus jumped from animal to humans at the Wuhan wet market. The bio lab, not far away could have someone accidently been careless and get infected with the virus, or it was released intentionally to bring down the American economy. Door 1, 2 or 3.