Clap for NHS has lost the spirit.

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Please don't come for me and be nasty.

The first clap for NHS and others was so amazing and I can't believe everyone did it, I thought it would be a yearly thing or an NHS day each year.
(I made a decision to donate some money each year to them

I think the clap thing has lost the meaning and its seems silly to stand outside and clap. It's like a song that's been over played,

And after seeing the idiots clapping on the bridge has made it a joke.

Does anyone else feel the same

I don’t clap. Nor do I write “thoughts and prayers” or “amen” on Facebook posts about sick people. It’s all the same - meaningless nonsense designed to make you feel like you’ve done something. Slacktivism on a national scale.

It’s not that I don’t care. I’m currently volunteering in neonatal support and trying to hold hospitals to account for their widely differing maternity policies via various panels I’m on, which in some cases are causing real problems. I’ve registered as a stem cell donor. And I’m not posting about it on Facebook or live streaming taking a bloody cheek swab.

And the fuckers who set off fireworks from their front gardens outside our tiny terraced houses an hour after my small kids go to bed can seriously fuck off.

I don't like it. It feels very bandwagon-y. At tea time on Thursday I have to start planning my evening around it and clock watching as my street is very into it and they chant your house number then cheer when you come out it's fucking ridiculous.

Oh my god whaaaaaaaat?! That has cracked me up! 😂

I was a bit disappointed at the beginning that no one round here was that into it (houses quite spaced apart and mostly quiet more elderly people) but Christ on a roller-coaster I would rather live here than on 'Come on Down' Street!

I'm still chuckling at the thought of people doing this!

Nobody in my street claps. We're all anti social buggers the street behind make enough noise.
I too want to know when the last clap will be. Its turned into a bit of a thing now hasn't it.

Perhaps in 100 years we’ll have a society where everyone is compelled to go outside and clap at 8pm on a Thursday each week, and nobody knows why.

I'm quite enjoying watching the competitiveness ramp up on my local FB page as well, a lot of 'hope to see everyone on X Crescent out tonight, don't disappoint me' and videos of kids banging saucepans - I feel like it's going to kick off on there one of these weeks and I can't wait!

Perhaps in 100 years we’ll have a society where everyone is compelled to go outside and clap at 8pm on a Thursday each week, and nobody knows why.

If they don't, the plague will come and take the eldest in the family

Normalmumandwife. What does the stupid bitch do exactly to those who aren't out clapping.
Drag them out by their hair.

Stands and points at houses where no one in out. Is like WW1 when people didn't immediately volunteer to be slaughtered.

Only positive is it is now turning into a socially distanced party with some bringing out the wine!

We don't clap just because we dont want too nothing to do with not respecting the nhs, last thursday people stood in front of our house and clapped and cheered I just thought piss off with your passive aggressive nonsense it has gone ott imo.

Some on our locql fb have been complaining about pots and pans banging they are waking up babies some arsehole said your family might need the nhs because of covid !

Clap or don't clap but let's face it going by the amount of threads every single week about this Mumsnet has never approved of the Clap.for carers and are very eager to point this out every week is there really any need to.start yet another thread about it ?🤔

Oh good god! Do they think the pots and pans summon the mighty NHS?!

If they stop banging will the NHS disappear in a puff of smoke?

Friend of mine, lovely woman. Cannot take a shit without posting it on Facebook. Has always been up and down the hosp.

She’s been shaming her neighbours for not clapping.

Last week she posts a ‘had hosp app, stupid consultant didn’t do xyz’

🤦🏼‍♀️

We don’t do it either. Nor do we care about what the neighbours think.

Personally I just see it as one of the many pointless but extremely visible things that seem to be so popular and yet so good at displacing attention from the things that might actually make a difference.

I wonder how many of the people chanting house numbers or ‘naming and shaming’ on social media have ever donated blood, for example?

Personally I just see it as one of the many pointless but extremely visible things that seem to be so popular and yet so good at displacing attention from the things that might actually make a difference.

This. It started when the govt was still floundering. Seeing Johnson jump on the bandwagon was icky.

I think the 750k NHS volunteer thing is the same, I’ve lots of respect for those who signed up but of those I know they’ve had no calls or haven’t been able to sign up fully due to admin problems.

I think it was a squirrel to be honest. Plus showed the govt was doing ‘something’.

and they chant your house number then cheer when you come out it's fucking ridiculous

Oh I’d come out all right...they won’t fucking like me being out

In answer to the OP ....i agree, the clapping in our street it fine but yes

When will it end
Why have some people been really vile about people not clapping
Why can’t some people see that it defeats the purpose if they don’t socially distance

I have clapped once, and probably will this week...but im not going to make a habit of it

@SouthernComforts. Jesus Christ on a bike - that's intrusive, nuts & well just fucking nuts!!

Do you wear a uniform for work?? If you do maybe go out & shout 'after keeping the country running I'd prefer to sleep thanks!!'

We clap, but from the upstairs windows (as do quite a few neighbours) . It's nice seeing/hearing the neighbourhood and I know many isolated people (especially the elderly or those who have been unwell) have enjoyed feeling the community around them.
One little girl had her 5th birthday last week. We went out 5 minutes early & sang Happy Birthday. It's just a way of helping people through this - where's the harm. Honestly. Don't do it if you don't want to but the sneering & accusations of virtue signalling are pathetic.

I hate the Thursday clap and I hope it ends soon. People are getting nasty about it around here, ringing a bell to alert everyone it's time to go outside, yelling at neighbours for not clapping, going into people's drives banging pans, setting off fireworks. Then they closely group together (in the drive of someone who didn't clap) and chat until after 9pm. How do we go back to normal after this?

I was admitted to hospital for 72 hours the other week as my baby tried to make an arrival 14 weeks early (he's stayed put so far) and I asked the midwives in my ward what they though and every one of them said "it's lovely to finally feel appreciated like we deserve but we would prefer if people donated or even stayed home instead". Some even said they are sick of it!

I've never clapped and I adore our NHS but like other posters I have donated to several charities! My husband did the first time and now my MIL rings up to "check" we are both clapping at 8🙄

"Perhaps in 100 years we’ll have a society where everyone is compelled to go outside and clap at 8pm on a Thursday each week, and nobody knows why."

Haha, good point. How do we back out now?

My street collected for the foodbank last week. They're making it a weekly thing. So now we have to clap AND bring a bag of food out with us.

I don't clap, never did. Next door do (smoker), the other do (also smoker and overweight) and a few on the other side.

As with so much of the British behaviour, it descends into noise, bullying and revelling in the total one-upmanship of it all. Banging pots and pans, fireworks, tooting their car horns up and down the road (Tesco delivery van last week, probably will bring out more of the same this week) - it's all very distasteful and almost thuggish, I think.

I support the NHS (dp is a hospital worker, I'm a keyworker) but I'd rather support them by not smoking, keeping a healthy weight, eating well and staying healthy. And giving blood. And not seeing the Gp for every little thing.

Dp works in a hospital which was featured in the Clap on Thursday on TV - no one was bothered about it on the day, until about ten to 7, when they all came out whooping and clapping and laughing (and getting their faces on TV) and afterwards all went back to work. It's all staged.

I wonder when they will stop televising it?

It isn't the clapping i don't get it is the effect it has on some people theyhave become hysterical and they need to leave others alone !

We do it to join in with our road. I don’t see the point tbh. If you want to support the NHS pay the staff better and fund it properly. But we are a minority family and I don’t want to give the hypocritical Tory voting clapping gammons in our county any more reason to blame us for everything.

It's the 'clap or else' mentality that I've seen (social media) that worries me - but then week 100 of lockdown and some people seem to be getting a bit overwhelmed. I did see a nice tweet where the poster said that he didn't clap but offered to do a neighbours garden (a hospital worker) - I thought that was nice and actually helpful (and appreciated).