AIBU to think that after all of this is over...

[MaybeDoctor]

...the people of the United Kingdom deserve to have another Bank Holiday in the calendar?

To fall in the autumn of each year, perhaps named Health Day. This would be to remember those who have been lost, celebrate healthcare workers and also reward the efforts of ordinary people in trying to contain this awful virus :(.

God not another day the kids will be home, pleeeeeese 😩

It does show the OP’s thinking yes - that key workers should be recognised for their amazing work.

No op, I don’t think another bank holiday is needed.
Recognition of the people who’ve kept the country going? Definitely- but by way of improved wages and working conditions/ contracts imo
(eg why have hospital cleaners and bin men had to go on strike in London just to get paid in the last 2 weeks?!)
These types of role also usually work on bank holidays anyway.

Something to memorialise those who have been lost/ the global impact of this pandemic? Probably, and depending on the ultimate scale it’s likely.

@GreyTS is the attitude necessary, or could you afford to show another human being some kindness?

Why not pay them a decent wage instead?

For most of these workers bank holidays are rota dependent. For those working in the supermarkets it will be another day they work whilst others shop.

Maybe post this when the virus has been defeated.

How ironic, give a day an extra day off to celebrate health workers who would mostly have to work it anyway.....

yeah great idea for us retail workers ....not!!!!

Once this is over I think there will be quite a few parties. whether there is a bank holiday or not

As a HCP this would be a kick in the face as yet another BH we'd have to work.

Hi OP, some mumsnetters are so rude! And have been very harsh to what is a perfectly normal thing to think about i.e. what will happen when this is all (hopefully) over.

I do hope there is some kind of global/national recognition/reflection of what happened (assuming we come out of it at the other end), perhaps a bank holiday.

I do hope that key workers are financially rewarded for what they do. And their industries better funded and better run.

I also hope that although our children are having their world turned upside at the moment they are inspired by some of the roles that are so crucial to us at the moment - scientists, mathematicians, medical/health care professionals, delivery drivers etc. etc.

the people of the United Kingdom deserve to have another Bank Holiday in the calendar?

They deserve nothing of the sort at this point. Some, only some do. But in general? No. The conduct of general public is downright embarrassing

No they don’t deserve it, most have been greedy little fuckers and cleared the shelves, and ignored the rules to go to the pub/play date etc etc . They should be ashamed of themselves not given a day off to get pissed

I'd rather have my contribution recognised by reasonable pay and working conditions.

Maybe the government not announcing my role is "unskilled".

God no, I don’t want another day at home not in the office!

@GreyTS
I don't have anything to be ashamed of - I am doing all the right things. But, please, carry on with your uncalled for personal attack..

What is Mumsnet AIBU for if not for posting your thoughts and getting other people's views?

Ok, so it wouldn't work for health workers in terms of a day off - I see that... But would you get the extra pay in lieu of a bank holiday?

A nice thought but a bit useless considering real front line staff don’t get public holidays anyway

yulertula, great post!

Oh yes, let's have a new bank holiday to celebrate all the work done during the corona virus outbreak.

Of course it won't be a bank holiday for many of the health care workers, police etc because they will be at work

It just strikes me that a bank holiday is one of the few things a government can 'give' its people without any immediate cost.

I also completely agree that improved wages and working conditions should come out of this awful situation. Zero hours contracts are an abomination that should never have been allowed to exist.

Oh fuck off with ooh you're so rude and mean you big meanies. Grow the fuck up.

People are dieing in their thousands, jobs are being lost, people can't buy food, the elderly can't have visits from their own family and some div wants to start a post about bank holidays? How will that benefit these front line workers in the NHS and the ones in Asda and those emptying the bins? Absolute tosh.

What a charmer you are. But I know that I am not a 'div' so it doesn't worry me...

Have you missed the commemoration aspect of this idea?

We do after all have bank holidays to celebrate Royal Weddings and our monarch's birthday. We also have annual commemorations of people lost in wartime.

I don't think it is unreasonable to have a commemoration of people lost in a peacetime disaster.

I don't think it is unreasonable to have a commemoration of people lost in a peacetime disaster

So it's not about the front line workers after all then?

Also, it's not a disaster, it's a pandemic. The people aren't lost - they died.

10 thousand people have died across the world from this. 10 thousand people across the world die from all kinds of things and don't get a bank holiday. How about one for the global deaths due to suicide, or famine, or poor health care in the developing world?