Hi Tech, Lo Tech, NoTek

My apologies to the city of Nokia, because there are many good people living in there, but I just can't stop disliking it. Here's something to prove my point. Or not. Either way, Nokia keeps staying in the headlines in negative aspects.

Today I read that the Nokia health center (Nokian terveyskeskus aka NoTek) has been a center of attention once again. This time an old man has been killed by another old man. What is it with NoTek? It really sounds like a deadly surroundings.

It was 1,5 years ago, when Nokia was introduced to the world by poop water. At least I heard about it on the radio, P1 channel news in Stockholm. Some idiot had connected waste water pipes to drinking water pipes which caused sickness to the most of the city. Eventually some even died. NoTek couldn't handle the urgent need of care in time. And there were a lot of people who have the power in Nokia saying that it isn't that bad. Hell, people were dying, those powers that be should have taken some responsibility over what happened.

After the poop incident, there was a female nurse who had poisoned many patients with insulin. At least she is claimed to have done so. The nurse denies everything. Now several bodies have been digged up to see if they had been poisoned as well. Her trial is ongoing at the moment.

All these tragedies have dealt with old, sick people. We shouldn't belittle lives of the oldies. That's how we all end up, if we get lucky. It's somehow weird to read about these happenings, because all I have met in NoTek has been smiling faces and caring people. How could I suspect any hanky-panky? Any foul play by over-stressed, underpaid, tired nurses and doctors with problems both at home and at work? A smile is only skin-deep, alas.

Oh yes, and it isn't more than weeks ago when someone found toxic wasteland under a kindergarten playground in Nokia. It was the same nursery that had been closed due to mould and damp problems all over the building. And the same one that our kid was attending until she was 5. That's four years of toxic pre-teenage wasteland, if you will.

I'd have a lot of unpleasant memories about the city of Nokia. Maybe I'll save you from them. Or just save it for a rainy day. So let's take a rain check, á la Smek.