Bats in a cave =  Commuters in a new York subway car at rush hour = carousers 
in a trendy bar at 11.30pm.  Definitely cheek-by-jowl.  Or cheek by cheek, for 
that matter.    

 

Nick Thompson

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From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Barry MacKichan
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 11:16 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Collective sensemaking

 

I did a fair amount of spelunking in my undergraduate days. While I 
occasionally encountered a solitary bat, most bats that I’m familiar with hang 
cheek to jowl in vast crowds. In caves, which you could fairly describe as 
“inside”. To answer BW: No, not suspicious at all.

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Colbert has a chapter about an infection 
racing through bat populations in the US.

—Barry

On 19 Jul 2021, at 22:08, David Eric Smith wrote:

I remember the following to assertions from them.  (Paraphrased, but should be 
close): 

BW: (about whether the virus was in some way manmade) “Isn’t it suspicious that 
most people have infected each other inside, yet bats live outside.”  

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