You might find this recent NYT article[1] about the “birth of social distancing” interesting. TLDR - In the early 2000s a high school student did a project map

You might find this recent NYT article[1] about the “birth of social distancing” interesting. TLDR - In the early 2000s a high school student did a project mapping the “social network” of her school. Her father just so happened to be a scientist. He used her school project to create a model that showed by closing the schools during a pandemic in a hypothetical town of 10,000 people, only 500 people got sick. Leaving the schools open would result in half of the population infected. Closing schools is one of the most effective strategies we have to prevent a contagion from spreading. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/politics/social-distancing-coronavirus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/politics/social-distan...