Can We co-exist?

Written by Isadora Sartosa

Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:27

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The other day, reading on the web, I knew that in a hospital of England: Royal Oldham Hospital, smokers (not smoking) are not allowed in maternity waiting room. “In the interests of others, smokers are not allowed in this room”, the sign outside the waiting room says.
Therefore, for the first time smokers have been prohibited from entering a public place. The justification for this policy is that smokers emit thirdhand smoke which could be harmful to patients or visitors in the hospital.

Although there is no scientific evidence that these residual constituents remaining in the breath or on the clothing of smokers were any threat to health, these people has been banned, as segregationist laws of old times banned people due to racist ideas.
If we take seriously the “great” idea of Royal Oldham Hospital, we can ironically ask several questions: why would smokers must be allowed in any areas of the hospital? If they are a risk for pregnant women, they are a bigger risk for patients with respiratory disease or for these other ones who are suffering in the emergency room. But what if the pregnant woman is herself a smoker? Should we ban her too? And what about her baby after it was born? We must consider banning smokers from going within 10 meters of any children or within 5 meters of any adult.
Nevertheless, smokers can say that they must not put up with people who have influenza, for example, as they are a risk for them. Then, we should also add a poster saying: “Contagious people are forbidden in this hospital”. Only in the hospital? Why not in the school, bus, library or restaurant? And why not is everybody, who has been near a smoker or an ill person, banned too? Maybe their hair has residual constituents which are a risk for mankind. Even if they do not know they have a contagious disease, they can unconsciously harm our health. Why do not we forbid whatever person within 5 meters of the rest of men or women all around the world?
I think it would be easier to forbid stupid people to enter in any part or to hang crazy posters on the walls of our hospitals or schools and to try to co-exist peacefully while we are on this Earth because, at the end and this is the sad truth: nobody is immortal and even if we remain completely alone, we will pass away the same.
People who wait for immortality should look for it in the church.

Read about Isadora Sartosa:
http://isartosa-creativewomen.blogspot.com/

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