This week we have a plurality of Wankers. They are the people in charge of Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax, who are trying to stop people looking at the babies in their maternity unit. They have put a notice beside the cots saying "What makes you think I want to be looked at"?
Their spokesperson, Debbie Lawson, told a newspaper "These are little people with the same rights as you or me".
The GOS thinks that babies don't actually have the same rights as him. For instance, the GOS has the right to vote. Babies don't. Nor can they own a house or get married. If they have the right to remain silent, the GOS wishes they'd exercise it occasionally.
Babies don't pay Council Tax, they can't be called for jury service and they are rarely, if ever, fined for speeding. You see, the flip side of the rights coin is responsibility. Nobody can, or should, claim rights if they aren't prepared to shoulder the responsibilities. If babies want the right not to be stared at, they should bloody well wipe their own bums. If they value their privacy so much, they shouldn't attract attention by screaming their heads off every time they want to be fed.
Don't look at babies? What a load of rubbish! Experts tell us that attention is good for babies. They tell us that talking to babies helps them develop their own language skills. They tell us that babies need to be occupied, and pretty much the only thing that can occupy them at that age, apart from eating and crapping, is looking at things. Faces peering over the side of the cot and going "Goo, goo!" are the baby equivalent of a university education.
Mrs.GOS had a spell in hospital recently. Nobody put up a notice saying "Don't look at this woman". Far from guarding her privacy, they put her in a room with glass in the door. Nurses and cleaning ladies came and went without knocking. Doctors half her age examined fairly private parts of her and called her "dear" (which, to be fair, was very brave of them. Few who really knew her would dare ….).
Mind you, this wasn't in Halifax. Up there people evidently have so little to do that their idea of a good time is to go down the local hospital and ogle the patients. If the authorities hadn't nipped it in the bud there'd be coach parties from the WI - who fancies a nice cream tea and a guided tour of the maternity unit? On the way home there's a raffle - you can win a nurse.
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