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 :(.

I think by most people's standards it's a disaster, if you use the definition of 'natural catastrophe' :(.

YANBU OP to think about what will happen ‘after’. Thinking about that is keeping me going tbh and I think is a perfectly normal way of coping with what’s going on.

I’d much rather the key workers were rewarded directly into their bank accounts to offset the financial fallout of working their assess into the ground for the rest of us on very little pay, risking their own health and their families, and sending their DC off to the only childcare the government can cobble together for weeks or months on end.

@Thymelord so what exactly is it that you're doing to help the situation? Oh wait you're just posting a shitty comment on mumsnet

OP is perfectly capable of having sympathy with all of what is going on but also to have a break and think about something a bit lighter and less bleak for at least a moment!

Fine if you don't think the Bank Holiday is a good idea but this is an unprecedented event that will go down in history so I get why the question is being asked.

Remembrance Day has multiple dimensions of remembering, mourning loss and thanking servicemen.

This day could serve a similar purpose.

Servicemen and women

To put this thread into perspective, there is someone complaining on AIBU right now about a shortage of gin!

GreyTS ‘you Brits etc..’ 🙄🙄🙄 totally unnecessary, unhelpful and zenophobic! Please don’t bother commenting next time! Comments like that, at times like this are not welcome !

Tbf, the worlds going shit and lot of people have dc home for who knows how long....one needs gIn

I take your point, though it's not my tipple of choice :). But one woman's poison etc.

I was thinking it was ironic that there was so much fuss about moving the May Bank Holiday from Monday to Friday to commemorate VE day, and now it's likely that any celebrations will be on a very small scale.

Honestly I think posters like @Thymelord think everyone should be sitting in a dark room stressing, panicking and lamenting Rona all day. Some of us more rational folk understand life goes on and we can't grind to a halt.

Lots of love, someone who will probably lose someone very close to her from CV in the next few days but isn't taking offence to people thinking about happier times xoxo

I am sorry, thecatschampagne.
That is why I don't want this to be passing from current memory a few years from now. It is too wide-reaching.

Oh yes, all the low paid workers could have yet another day where they have to work, while the rest of us get to celebrate their hard work. Excellent idea.

I'd rather have a rise in minimum wage. For some off us life not changed much. Still working looking after vunerable people. To be honest tonight after my 12 hour shift in a care home l was vaguely jealous of people who will be getting 8o% of wages to sit at home for months I'm bloody knackered.

Fair point - I hope it happens.

In 1957 a flu pandemic killed 3 million worldwide, inc 1000s in the UK, in 1968 another killed 1 million worldwide, 1000s in the UK, no one locked anything down or called for a public holiday.

Whether we like it or not the vast majority who are dying are near the end of their lives, if my Mum (82) had died of CV after her stroke, i'd have seen it as blessed relief.

But of course we need to do all we can to keep people alive even if only for a short while.

I've been thinking that those on the front line should be celebrated or have some sort of time off. Won't/can't happen though.

I definitely think those on the front line will be remembered in a similar way to those who faught in other wars.

I think the world will be a far nicer place when this is over. It has to become more caring and sharing.

I'm also thinking family time will become verging on sacred with only those who NEED to work nights and Sundays doing it.

I think you're very optimistic blackbear. Look at all the selfish panic buyers only concerned with clearing shelves to add to their ridiculous stores. The abuse being thrown at supermarket staff. People expecting full pay to stay at home but outraged they should be expected to pay cleaners, childcare, clubs etc and demanding refunds from other businesses. Wanting every service they might like to use to remain fully operational so they can isolate as a precaution with everything they want on tap. That's before even touching on nhs staff.

It’s fairly awful, but I think we do romanticise the past regarding the behaviour of people during WW2 etc. There was a huge black market during rationing.

It's a lovely idea, OP
the service of the NHS workers deserves honouring; the dead should be remembered

Unfortunately, the country won't be able to afford another bank holiday:

we're going to have a global recession, maybe a global Depression
and the govt have had - rightly - to spend umpteen billions on this rescue package for businesses and workers

So, the country will be skint

I expect we'll have a one-off big national Remembrance Service once it's all over
and some memorial statues in various towns and cities if the casualties are really bad.

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

You do realise peacetime disasters happen all the time? Google the number of people killed in earthquakes and tsunamis. Do we have a holiday to remember those who died in the 1918 'flu?

Working on changing systems to deal with things like this should they ever happen again is surely more important, along with making sure people are adequately paid for what they do, especially those who go above and beyond the call of duty.

Ok, I rest my case - you heard it here first! Visit Britain are with me and the government are thinking about it.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52674914

It will never be ‘over’.

This is here for a long time...