Covid-19 ‘Micro-spreader’ Phenomenon
A plague or an outbreak of disease is essentially a social phenomenon, a situation in which a pathogen or carrier moves and spreads disease only when a group of people actively interact with one another.
A plague or an outbreak of disease is essentially a social phenomenon, a situation in which a pathogen or carrier moves and spreads disease only when a group of people actively interact with one another. These interactions are what we call social relations, the foundation of every society.
In the beginning, the Covid-19 pandemic was indeed triggered by a natural event that led to the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Somehow, through interspecies contact, this variety of coronavirus jumped from animal cells to human cells. Furthermore, the coronavirus easily piggybacked on social relations to reproduce at a massive scale through society. Thanks to globalization, the coronavirus then spread around the world at high speed and devastated the global economy.