The corporeal equivalent of 'herd mentality'. The way in groups of people physically behave and copy the actions of others in the same way that herd mentality suggests a group of people who follow a consensus without thinking for themselves.
The herd physicality at sporting events, political rallies and religious gatherings makes them strong prospects for super-spreader events.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)