According to the National Post, Ebola has been an ongoing crisis for third world countries over the last couple years; countries such as Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea have been severely affected. This plague not only affects the residents of these countries but also their economies. There continues to be a rise in poverty and unemployment. This shows the sad inevitable of this health epidemic. In 2014, there is currently a “-12% change in annual real GDP growth” (Business Spector, 2014). This, in turn, affects the country’s health care resources, reduces the labour supply and blights their productivity. Evidently, the fear of contagion and people’s behavior impacts economic decisions. Governments may feel as if they need to shut down public spaces and people may be afraid to go to work because of the fear of contracting this disease. Undoubtedly, without workers or government spaces, the economy would not be able to thrive. Contrastingly, Canada would not be susceptible country to this plague because these outbreaks occur in third-world countries with no health care and corrupt governments. On Friday, September 19, 2014, the government came to a conclusion and “ordered everyone in the country to remain indoors for three days, suspending commerce, emptying the streets and halting this beleaguered nation in its tracks in an attempt stop the disease from spreading” (NY Times, 2014).