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Video monitors visible to the crowd at key points, showing what is happening in the crowd at different points, also available by app would help to create the "s
by QuantumGood 12y ago
Video monitors visible to the crowd at key points, showing what is happening in the crowd at different points, also available by app would help to create the "social awareness" that the article says protects ants together in large groups.
And I would think that churches and other groups that generate volunteers might work with retailers to help avoid deaths and injuries.
- dmckeon 12y agoFor retail, structuring sales so they do not involve crowds waiting to burst in when the doors open would suffice. The retailer would trade human safety for the shared sense of urgency of the "blitz" style sale. Synchronous events, like concerts and sporting events, could rely on structuring events so that arrival and queuing is less contention-driven - both early and late arrivals get their reserved seats. Again, the urgency and excitement of queuing for festival seating is lost. For people who structure events with the intent of attracting crowds to pretend that human safety is not put at risk by the retailer's or event organizer's choices is disingenuous at best, lethal at worst.