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| Boston No Kings main assembly area. 19,000 square-meters |
At 2 people per square-meter that works out to a little less than 40,000 people attending.
How dense of a crowd is 2 per-square meter? That is the equivalent of six people standing on a 4' by 8' sheet of OSB or 55 people standing inside a standard, 24' by 24', two car garage. It is pretty packed. So the 40k people is a high-end estimate.
At one person per square-meter, that gives a low-end estimate of 20k people.
A frequently used "standard" for sizing the sanctuary of a church is to assume 1.2 square-meters per worshiper (or 0.8 worshipers per square-meter) for maximum crowds. Those calcs incorporate aisle-ways for egress (including enough room for two wheelchair to pass abreast) and pews spaced far enough apart so worshipers can sit and stand and kneel.
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| If you zoom into the crowd, you can still see the sod through the people and signs suggesting a lower-than-2/m^2 density |
As I was looking at the images on the internet, I noticed that many of the people were carrying signs and that a disproportionate number of them were facing the camera. That makes it difficult to estimate the spacing of the protestors and makes the area seem "blanketed" with people, even when it is not. That is especially true with low-angle shots. One difference between the Chicago and the Atlanta images is that the Atlanta images were taken more directly overhead while the Chicago images were taken at a lower angle and the Boston images were all shot at 10 degrees or less.
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I ordered a new power-port and battery for the Win 10 computer. I will probably disconnect it from the WIFI and use it for note-taking, number crunching and writing drafts.
Whatever the numbers, think about what these people could do if they spent the time and effort that they did doing the "No Kingz" thing and instead used it to improve their community....
ReplyDeleteI find it hard to believe that the general public (protest participants included) are so stupid they cannot realize they are fulfilling the 'useful idiots' stage of communist revolution?
ReplyDelete... and then I remember that commies took over education and have been dumbing it down for 60 years, they stopped kids reading those books, stopped teaching those lessons, and inverted guys like Mao, Pol Pot and Che Guevera to hero status instead of maniacal totalitarian dictator.
I suspect that a disproportionate share of them retired from public-sector jobs. They are the people who were force-feeding the stupidity to impressional young people.
DeleteThe hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic was particularly hard on "pensioners". They were on a fixed income and the ones who had worked in the public-sector did not have a lot of flexibility and did not adapt quickly to the accelerating crisis.
Most of those protestors are cut from the same cloth.
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1979982805737111949
ReplyDeleteSeems the vid posted over the weekend was from 2017.
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Well, well, well. What a surprise. Liars gonna lie.
DeleteRight! lol. They just can’t help themselves.
DeleteIt’s gotten to the point that, if I just assume that everything I hear, am told, see on TV or read is BS, I’ll be right 85% of the time. Now I know why my dad would just say, “ oh, that’s a bunch of bull” to just about everything! MF But as usual you’re factoring and figuring we’re spot on.
News channel in gym this am was reporting "over 7 million" protestors nationwide....your assessment of the overinflated reports suggests that figure is BS.
ReplyDeleteI do this because I am a numbers-nerd. My opinions don't change whether it is 70k, 700k or 7M.
DeleteBut if it does make a difference to you, the Kentucky Windage of the few crowds I looked at suggests that 700k might be a closer estimate than 7M for the number of people publicly demonstrating at any one time.