I am wondering: does anybody pay anthropological attention to the lines in the post-covid landscape? Lines were previously remarkably rare. I think I only saw lines at big musical and movie festival in Austin. Now lines are everywhere including weirdest places like cafe selling coffee. What is going on?

I recollected how I once in the post-Perestroika Russia stood in line somewhere and spotted a friend of mine behind me. I invited her to join me, and people in line were irritated. She refused to join me saying: "No, the line is sacred." ("Ochered' — eto sviatoe"). She was maybe 15 years older and knew lines, I surmised, that constituted a "place of sociality" TM and "mutuality" (C), a transient and yet persistent space in the Soviet Union where justice was routinely reaffirmed, friendships and animosities proliferated, and injustice found its end, again and again.