Is there anything to the notion that you might prefer to be batted around in the “soft body” portion of the dense-crowd “fluid” rather than pinned between sever

Is there anything to the notion that you might prefer to be batted around in the “soft body” portion of the dense-crowd “fluid” rather than pinned between several tons of soft bodies in motion and a hard limit? You seem rather more crushable than an individual molecule might be… (edit: “crowd crush safety expert” Paul Wertheimer, who came to some notoriety through studying mosh pits from within them, apparently suggests—at least in situations where the crowd is moving toward a clear focal point—you’re right: he recommends the edges https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/13/us/how-to-stay-safe-at-concerts-cec/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/13/us/how-to-stay-safe-at-concer... That said I note that the authors of TFA draw a distinction between dense-crowd situations undergoing unidirectional flow and the steady, confined dense crowd whose behavior they describe.)