6 June

The age of crowds. Even microbes - a pandemic is a crowd of microbes. Research on crowds suggests individuals hate to touch except in relationships. Why people walking along a busy footpath do a sophisticated ‘step and slide’ to avoid touching others, also how a flock of birds or school of fish works. And why an apology is needed if you do touch. But if you pack people close enough together, a ‘discharge’ happens where that hatred of touch dissolves. That’s what a crowd is. Right now we have the microbe crowd competing with the human crowd. The human crowd will lose that battle.