Queue jumpers are smart. They are the ones who take your parking space while you wait for the driver to leave without forcing him to manoeuvre over your car. They are the same ones who pretend you're not there when they get to the queue at the supermarket or the taxi rank, the same ones who don't see that the two lines become one, the ones who rely on the politeness of others. The same ones that when they get to a place of responsibility - which they call power- give jobs to their brother-in-law and their unqualified cousin. They reach the top of the pyramid with merits other than the strictly meritocratic.

Jumping the queue is for the presidents of regions managed through priests, for bishops who actually believe that God has anointed them princes, for cacique mayors. Jumping the queue is for military saviours.

Jumping the vaccination queue is to live in a parallel reality, and those who do it cannot even imagine for a moment how fed up citizens are with them. Those who jump the queue for the vaccination do not come even close to real public servants, who, reality shows us, are at supermarket checkouts, in hospital wards, cleaning buildings, facing the public behind desks, showering old people in nursing homes

Jumping the queue is not an anecdote. They do it because we let them.

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