Before revision: The 1st wave of COVID-19 changed social distancing around the globe: severe lockdowns to stop pandemics at the cost of state economies preceded a series of lockdown lifts. To understand social distancing dynamics it is important to combine basic epidemiology models for viral unfold (like SIR ) with game theory tools, such as a utility function that quantifies individual or government forecast for epidemic damage and economy cost as the functions of social distancing.
After revision: To describe the dynamics of social distancing during pandemics, we follow previous efforts to combine basic epidemiology models for viral unfold (like SIR ) with game theory tools, such as a utility function that quantifies individual or government forecast for epidemic damage and economy cost as the functions of social distancing.