Socio-psychological aspects of the economic behavior of people during a pandemic

The influence of socio-psychological factors on people's economic behavior is assessed. The topic of the article is very relevant, since to date a lot of data has been accumulated on the peculiarities of the impact of the pandemic on society, in particular, socio-psychological phenomena in relation to the economic behavior of people, but the practical aspects of using research results have not been sufficiently developed.

Statistical processing of published data made it possible to draw conclusions on some aspects of the influence of socio-psychological states on the prospects for the economic behavior of people in society.

Results important for practice were obtained. It has been established that as the population grows, the probability, and, consequently, the proportion of people who approve of vaccination increases, while fluctuating widely. It was revealed that the transition to increased morbidity does not lead to an increase in mortality, a change in the number of recovered patients and is not directly reflected in economic indicators. It is noted that the initial strain of the COVID-19 coronavirus was very highly contagious, but measures taken by governments and medical administrations of all countries of the world led to the "washing out" of weaker strains and the isolation of stronger ones. A relationship was found between public approval of vaccination and the level of collective immunity.

It has been established that the human community has a certain resistance to pandemic-type perturbations and most of the population has no psychological barriers and approves of vaccination.

Based on ideas about the relatively low level of turbulence in human society, estimates for the duration of the pandemic were obtained.

Based on these conditions, studies have been carried out to study forecasts of the duration of the pandemic, the economic damage associated with it, and the herd immunity necessary to stop it. It is established that the pandemic will be long-term.