Thread by @ianjamesyoung70

It occurs to me that most people haven’t got any concept of how large a crowd of one million people actually is. They haven’t the faintest idea what it looks like

https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/status/1327646530103369728?s=20

Here’s the crowd in Freedom Plaza. It’s about 1.6hectares, including the roads. This isn’t a super dense. You cld walk thru most parts. At one person per sq meter (tight enough to hit people all round if you spin with bent elbows), it’s abt 16,000 ppl

https://twitter.com/shomaristone/status/1327673126197583875?s=20

This is Queen at Knebworth, 1986. This is a big crowd. It’s 120,000 people

Here’s the biggest HK protest last year. About 400,000-500,000 people pass under the camera, taking about seven hours (the protesters were on other roads too)

So, eyeballing the “million” people at the #MillionMagaMarch , in this photo? About 10,000-12,000 I reckon. Like, a decent-sized crowd for a National Lacrosse League game, say