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events that differentiate one day from another might makes it feel as the time is

going slowly.

We can see that people are behaving more seriously at this pandemic. From

these differences, we can think that the pandemic is going more severe, and people

are also persisting with it.

2. Experimental methods

Method: Qualitative

For qualitative methods, case studies of different behavioral patterns from various

countries were done. Cases based on China, America, Korea, and Singapore were

studied so that we can spot distinct herd mentalities that occurred in those

countries. We have chosen these four countries because China was the origin of

COVID-19, America and Singapore had a rapid increase of confirmed cases of

COVID-19, and Korea had a countless number of herd mentality cases.

The case study will be about widespread actions (e.g., stockpiling) during the
COVID-19 crisis. We will use the materials: news articles, statistical data on herd

mentality due to COVID-19. Specifically, we would be studying widespread actions,
like stockpiling, herd behavior, and immigration due to COVID-19. We would be

inferring valid news articles and statistical data on China, America, Korea, and
Singapore to see how people from different countries are coping with COVID-19.

Method: Quantitative

Survey questionnaires on social/media influence and adopted coping measures

were used for our quantitative methods. Some questions that were included in our

survey were:

E.g., I am anxious about the COVID-19 crisis, Rate on a scale from 1 (not anxious

at all) to 10 (extremely anxious).

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