You are correct about the patients eating up resources. There are limited resources. This leads to more infected. This leads to fewer people producing, and so on. The length of recovery means a lot here. Ebola kills fast. This seems to linger for a long time.
This is going to be like watching a boa constrictor on their economy.
The people complaining that a flight ban would wreck the economy have NO IDEA what this virus is going to do to the economy.
We need a list of tweets that will not age well...