In the existing world, covid was already front-page news in Jan/Feb 2020, with speculation about it spreading beyond China*. Few people in the West did anything.
The stock market is essentially a prediction market so a seperate prediction market on the question whether COVID-19 reaches us wouldn’t necessarily produced more information.
The stock market is essentially a prediction market so a seperate prediction market on the question whether COVID-19 reaches us wouldn’t necessarily produced more information.