Amid the groaning and screaming there was nearly a moment of collective panic because people thought they were trapped, but gradually all but the most severely wounded found their way out onto the rails.
And once President Obama signs off on the budget compromise, which Congress approved today, our collective panic can shift from federal to personal as we count down to Tax Day.
At the same time, the Government has urged citizens to run to the air raid shelters for 12 or 15 hours a day, understanding that collective panic provides a sense of solidarity with the nation and its military.
This has caused a collective panic among GNP members as they are often concerned about online contents generated by South Korean progressives.
A collective panic set in among Nashville's reading faithful.
On Monday, all the tools of this brave new financial world were mechanisms for communicating efficiently - and with devastating speed, they spread a collective panic.
Never mind, as ejection from office loomed, Labour's collective panic stifled rational thought.
It was like a scene from The Day of the Locust, wall-to-wall humans in a collective panic, moving as one, in fear for their lives.
The effects of these crises have been collective panic amongst consumers, some unfortunate cases of people affected, and irreparable and significant financial losses in the agricultural and food industries.