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Social distancing is a Public Good: the more people who do it, the more disease we avoid. I benefit from you isolating. You benefit from me isolating.

But it's clear we have a polymorphism: some people are Team #SelfishPricks, and some are Team #StayAtHome.

Why?
This is a game-theory problem, and since I am indeed #StayingAtHome, why not spend some time exploring a game-theoretical concept that predicts such a polymorphism: Non-Linear Public Goods?
We start with Hardin (1968. Science 162:1243–1248.), who published one of the most cited and influential papers of all time: The Tragedy of the Commons. Hardin’s Tragedy is also known as an N-person Prisoner’s Dilemma, aka NPD.
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