It all began with one citizen in India. The bloody cough, the ruptured vessels in the eyes. Within a day this person was dead. But not before it spread to the members of the person's family. Within a week, the city of Bombay is under quarantine as most of the city falls underneath the sickness spell. Even more alarming, as news agencies began reporting, the sickness made its appearance in other parts of India, and in a month, reports began to appear of the same sickness appearing in the surrounding countries, including Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, and a case in Southeast China. In order to protect itself, countries begin sealing their borders. Korea attempts to do so, but is unable to prevent its spread. Japan, an island nation that has enforced an isolationist policy once in its past, is more successful, and Russia uses its military might to protect itself. A vaccine is eventually created, but it takes six months to do so. In that time, India's population is reduced by 3/4. A country that once boasted a population of over a billion now has a population of 250 million. Other countries affected by the sickness have up to half of their population missing. China is now down to a population of 500 million. The world reels as it recovers from one of its worse pandemics in history.
In this scenario, what is the impact on the global stage, and how long will it take to recover from the loss of possibly a billion of the world's citizens, lost in just one region of the world?
In this scenario, what is the impact on the global stage, and how long will it take to recover from the loss of possibly a billion of the world's citizens, lost in just one region of the world?