Re: Social Distancing
"why is it that we Brits (who have a reputation for queueing) don’t have a similar number for those who queue?"
USAians love to invent words to label everything they can. For various sad reasons, many, many USAians are discovering queuing at food banks, or "lines" as they call them. I'm sure the media will come up with many new words to describe the action of queuing, probably different words for different type of queue or reasons for queuing.
On a side note, all the video on the news of foodbank queuing in the USA seem to show enormous queues of cars, often multiple lines. How much are those drivers spending on fuel in stop/start lines miles long compared top the free food they are collecting? No, I'm not being sarky here, I'm genuinely puzzled over the cost of fuel burned against the value of the food.