I am talking about the social networks and our position in the networks that might have an impact on how prone we are to epidemics like this. While we know that the COVID-19 virus spreads through physical proximity and contact, would there be certain kinds of people who are more prone to getting the disease than others? I am not talking about the available data on elders and children who are more prone to the virus. To understand this crazy spread, we need to look into the construct of social networks and roles different people play in social networks. Just one person managed to take the total number of people affected from just 30 to almost 1000. So, the 31st patient became the tipping point in spreading the virus widely across South Korea. This cult is estimated to have approximately 240,000 followers. Within eight days of patient 31 contracting the virus, the count of infected people went up to 977. 18, was a member of a quasi-Christian cult called Shincheonji, one of the religious movements in the country. The 31st case in South Korea, patient No. Remember India now has more than 80 cases of people who have tested positive. The country thought the situation was well under control.
17, South Korea’s tally of COVID-19 patients was just 30 with zero deaths. South Korea did a very good job of mapping the people affected by virus using technology and by Feb.
This makes the spread of epidemics like Corona virus faster. In today’s world we know that it is not even six degrees of separation considering the global trade and travel and it is indeed a small world. This is how the concept six degrees of separation or the expression “it's a small world” came into our vocabulary. Soon 64 of these booklets reached their destination and the average chain of connections it took was 5.2. If they knew the stockbroker, they could send him directly and if they did not, they were asked to send to someone whom they thought could pass on to the stockbroker in Boston. Each of the 296 volunteers received a booklet that they were supposed to send to the stockbroker in Boston. Milgram chose a stockbroker in Boston and then he contacted 296 volunteers, one third of them whom were from Boston and rest from Omaha, Nebraska more than 1400 Kilometers away. Stanley Milgram was a Professor in Harvard who did an interesting experiment.