Once a team of healers needed some bored people to help them have a building and keep the lights on and health care and living wage for trauma-response workers. After the bored listed their volunteer role on their CVs, a bored member said: “Why should we believe those workers? They say their caseload reflects violence in our city? They say they need more than crumbs? They say one in three women? They say #wetoo? They say 200,000+ people need more than a $1 million budget and eight clinical counsellors for accessible trauma care?” Anyways, as a bored person I ask how many believable people live in this city? How much time can I say I volunteered as bored here? I’d better move on to my next austerity governance project. I wish you well workers.
—Bored Of Being Waitlisted By Gatekeepers
This article appears in Aug 29 – Sep 4, 2019.
Board, not bored.
Sounds like you will be deeply missed from your bored board which you have become bored of.
Despite the grammatical errors and bizarre sentence structure, I agree with your general point that our health care system is broken and underfunded. However, having volunteers on a board that have some responsibility in guiding the work yet can’t spell is another problem all together and perhaps an excellent demonstration of the desperation to fill positions in healthcare with anyone with a pulse.
Hope I didn’t bore you.