Or also on the question of how a report on the Daily Crve could mutate into a sweeping blow from sustainability to world politics to stupid people. Fascinating. Maybe I'll postpone the daily curve until next time. I'm currently occupied with a completely different topic with exciting similarities.
Can the earth still be saved? I don't think so. We have irreparably ruined so much of it, are irreparably ruining so much of it and will irreparably ruin so much of it. While politicians do nothing or too little to put an end to the madness. To be fair, one has to admit that the people don't really want it either and that it is not a priority in their lives. Be it because they lack education, knowledge and understanding, or because of elements such as war, poverty or wrong traditions. There are plenty of reasons.
It is clear that it is difficult at the international level anyway. As long as politicians are at the top, as is the case in Russia, China, Turkey and, I fear, soon again in the USA, a global rethink seems unlikely.
Nothing will happen at the European level in the near future. Everybody is looking out for themselves. I am an absolute supporter of the EU. When the British left, I - as a half-Englishman - was, I don't know, frustrated, shocked, disappointed. Something like that. But let me put it this way: every voter has at least one issue that interests him. I am interested in the protection of species. If the EU is as incompetent in the areas that interest the voters as it is in the protection of species, well, then please don't be surprised if the EU is punished. Don't misunderstand. Punishing it does no one any good. I'm just saying that you don't need to be surprised about the consequences. To stay with species protection, we are not only incapable of banning animal cruelty without exception. We don't even manage to effectively enforce the few existing environmental protection laws. So... difficult.
We don't even need to start at the national level. What was that about coal mining? With the already ridiculously puny and still missed targets? The promotion - or should I say non-promotion? - for research and development of alternative propulsion methods? That is simply nothing in the hand.
So no, it will definitely suck, we won't save it anymore. Now, and only now, we decide through action (or, in the worst case, non-action) only how shitty it will be. We should at least not blow this chance. Because it's the last one the universe will give us.
And from the big picture, I now have to somehow find my way back to my almost insignificant little light. Maybe I'll tell a joke. Orderly says "Oh my God!". I reply "Here." No? Not funny? Yet, as an agnostic atheist, I find it doubly funny. Now? Still not funny? All right, then. Let's get back to the real topic. My daily documentation for the current week. Unfortunately, it's rather incomplete because I was too lazy to think about how to conceptualise it. Creating a new page every day seems excessive to me. I can't display more than 8 days without scrollbars. So I've decided to update the past eight days on a rotating basis. After a calendar week, there will be a new article.
Especially after this week, which has been a rollercoaster of emotions, the question arises as to how much influence I have myself. It's a bit like the earth. There are those who take good care of you and respect your needs. And then there are others who don't do that. Because they don't understand, because they always want to get their own way, because they know everything better or, unfortunately, there is even that in both cases, because they are simply lazy. Using this week as a concrete example, old sport, I've had it all. From super good care, where I don't have to explain anything, to I don't even know what to say about it, care that is marked by permanent discussion about what is good for me, the deliberately prone lying about what I am supposed to have said, ending with hours of attempts to change the mask because you always know everything better and don't even listen to your own colleagues who say "uh, you're doing something wrong there"....
Or such excitements as ebn just now. Delicious. It's early evening. Every "normal" office worker is at the end of the day. Not so, my nursing service. He sends you the time sheet - it's the first of the month, after all, so it can be billed - to sign. And if I haven't signed it within twenty minutes, my carer's mobile rings. I've been sent an email that I haven't answered yet, he/she is supposed to remind me. Cheeky. Rude. Impudent. Annoying. Will someone stop me? Otherwise I can go on like this until tomorrow morning. Today wasn't the first time. like this. And not the second time either. Okay, it's been going on for months, systematically. First it was the management, then I think the PDL was pushed forward and now it's some girl from the office who calls me "Patrick, would you..." in a very friendly way, even though I think I don't even know her. But you better not want anything from them. I don't even ask for the agreed duty roster as a PDF so that I can enter it in the calendar. But even Whatsapp messages like "Help! Your new nurse fell asleep on her first duty and I can't manage to wake her up" are not even acknowledged. This, these are exactly the moments that bring me back down to earth. Management just doesn't give a shit as long as the money tap is flowing. As cool as it leaves me now, a few hours later, this incident has once again made my pulse race today. It's fascinating, when a six-figure project threatens to fail, I can sleep soundly, find pragmatic solutions. But working with people who behave disrespectfully towards me gives me a real stomachache. Literally. Here, too, the comparison with the earth fits amazingly well. But really. The question with care services is not whether it will suck, but only when and how it will suck.
