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 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ 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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