Tuesday 7 December 2021

Brinks

If you're a news junkie, then you believe that everything is on the brink of collapse.

With the pandemic still a thing, the health care system is, guess what? On the brink of collapse. I used the health care system a few weeks ago and it seemed fairly steady. Some paint coming off the walls but that's it. It definitely wasn't perfect, perfect being zero wait time, all the staff completely devoted to me, no one else in the hospital, free parking and several nurses flirting with me. Didn't collapse.

Speaking of nurses. Yup. Nurses are on the brink of collapse. So are teachers, waiters and waitresses, hairstylists, police, doctors (including eye), anyone with a job, really. And the jobless. On the brink.

Yesterday I read that the oceans are on the brink of collapse. Not life in the ocean, but the ocean itself. What does that mean? Will they no longer be water?

Forgot the media, who report all this brinkmanship. Brinking towards collapse.

Not accounting. You never hear of accountants being on the brink of collapse. Or lawyers. What are they doing right?

What about politicians. Don't you wish a lot of them would collapse?

How long can something be on the brink? Seems like a good question. When did the brink start, what was before it, when will it end, and what comes after it? Complete collapse, I assume. I have trouble thinking of something big like health care completely and utterly collapsing. That would mean millions of sick people wandering the streets because there are no hospitals, no doctors and nurses, no colonoscopies. Will the doctors give up their Mercedes that easily?

My last game of Jenga. That collapsed before my eyes. But I just rebuilt it.

The biggest thing on the brink of collapse is, obviously, Western civilization. Oh shit, and the climate too. Brink, brink, brink, brink brink, brink. Brink.

Guess what I heard yesterday. Brinks Security Company. On the brink.

Things are getting serious.