"I really had this intuition that something dramatic or that something fundamental would happen in society." Mattias Desmot describes the small indicators he noticed 2-3 months before the COVID-19 pandemic was declared that warned him society was ready for a mass formation. He describes how the emotional state of the nation, paired with the media's framing of the pandemic and the lack of a scientific costs-benefits-based plan led him to take action quickly to try and mitigate the damage.

