To be utterly sick of all the social media virtue signalling right now

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Just that really

All this baking and cooking, pushing notes through doors, excessive shopping for others - don’t they all realise that these little moments of contact or passing over of items are actually risks of transmission of the virus?
Too much virtue signalling and not really enough common sense.

She's a fucking receptionist in a probation office. Uh, I wasn't clapping for you love

That is so rude. All probation staff are key workers at the moment. I am sure she doesn't want to be there, dealing with, more than likely, domestic abusers and making sure they stick to their check in schedules, so hopefully they keep their abuse to a minimum in these trying times.

My husband used to work for probation (until it was privatised and people were literally making money from crime) and these were the main crimes, so I'm basing it on that.

You may not think she is as 'important' as NHS workers, and she might have been a bit of a twat for thanking people for clapping for her, but everyone forgets the admin staff in the background helping to keep things going too.

Maybe not 'heroes' as such, but still doing an important job.

It's just as bad on here in all honesty OP. Except it's the self isolation police on here. You must never leave the house ever again!!

Twitter is full of those too. The enraged because their neighbour was outside and put one foot over their boundary.

I agree in part... but I have been overwhelmed by the help I was offered from complete strangers when I posted recently on a facebook group asking for help for my parents (I couldn't get to them). Literally so many suggestions, offers of help from total strangers - it was fantastic and really helped us overcome the problem!

ellanwood
You don't need to get rickets to be a good citizen.

I am giggling at all the people on Strava saying that they are going for a solo run or a socially distancing run with lots of relevant hashtags. Yes we know you are on your own, we don't think you are meeting up in big groups to run. Strava says if it's a group activity or that you ran with other people, so it would be rather obvious if people were silly enough to track their runs.

BuffaloCauliflower Yes including #clapforcarers in a country that majority voted a party who don’t want to fund them properly. My town has been a Tory safe seat for 100 years, hearing the claps on Thursday just sounded like pure hypocrisy

Absolutely, I know lots of NHS staff are appreciating it but one of my kids is a nurse and I won't tell you what they want to say to anyone who clapped after voting Conservative. It won't give the clappers a warm glow.

I didn't realise virtue signalling was what it was called but yes, I'm very annoyed by it. The virtue signalling that gets me arr the people who say, "let's have a tougher lockdown. This isn't a proper one and it's all Boris' fault." This is followed by a diatribe about how crap the Tories are and how it's all their fault and the people who voted for him (I didn't vote for him). It all has such a self righteous tone to it and I also know that said person didn't change their behaviour until the lockdown came into force properly. Now she's apparently a full on lockdown campaigner.

What gets on my nerves most is I've been trying to be good for the past month (more like 6 weeks now) because I hated the thought of being in total lockdown and now I'm stuck in this situation with the people who thought it would be a good time to decorate their house and fancied a break from work.

I’ve uninstalled Facebook.
It was not good for me!

I came in here to say exactly what @BuffaloCauliflower said at the top of the thread

The people that do my head in are the armchair experts of doom and gloom all in competition to post an exaggeration of deaths etc not thinking the figures could also include themselves or bothering to check their prophecies. Yes best to turn off some social media

Surely you could argue that criticizing others for virtue signaling is a kind of virtue signalling in itself? Because you are telling the world that you are too intelligent, modest or self sufficient to need to tell the world what to do or what you are doing.....

And as I am now announcing to you that I am too intelligent to criticise people for virtue signaling, I think I now have the moral high ground! Feel free to counter post and grab it back....

Well I wouldn’t say you don’t have a fair point, but I’m just bitching about it anonymously on the internet. I don’t consider myself more intelligent or any of that jazz just fed up, bored and irritated.

And unfortunately no, we aren’t self sufficient in any way. I fucked up the shopping, having to isolate, and have bugger all food to feed the family. Sadly though what I need isn’t what the lady is serving up. I need basics for the kids, milk, fresh veg etc. But we will muddle through like most and we shall definitely do our bit to obey the rules and be socially responsible.

But please don’t take bitching on the internet away from me

oh god yes, all these hardline tory voters who are now crying /shitting themselves in public because they gasp have to live on £94 and clapping for the NHS

one fb friend posted how she went around to all the edlerly people in her neighbourhood and left anti bac hand gel on their door steps.

Well- firstly - do a good deed and don't shout about it. Secondly , anti bac doesn't help. Thirdly- I could just see you waiting for the fb plaudits that came your way. 'You are such a special person hun'.

TBH this is an educated person i never would have thought would behave like that.

MN is full of the virtue signallers too. Often the same people you saw tearing apart an upset poster just moments before..

Agreed. That’s not cricket at all.

Yanbu. I m hardly on fb anymore as it drives me mad.
My school is closed obviously and I m paid my full salary while staying at home although I have offered to come in if needed.
Lots of people with dc virtue posting about how much work they are doing at home and how lovely it is to be teaching their own dc (and I know Liz from number 33 spends half the day screaming at little Daisy and Louis). Not real names obviously.
My dd is a key worker but hasnt put anything on fb about it or how she drops shopping off for friends who have to self isolate. We just do it coz they re friends.
As for the rainbows i was out yesterday and they cheered me up in a gloomy time.
Thanking checkout staff? I did that anyway as the man in my local Sainsbury's was fantastic when the stupid self service till went mad the other day. It s just good manners, no need to post it on fb.
There s a reason I call it Fakebook.

I woman put on FB earlier that her mother needed someone to check on her and five people responded saying they would help. In the meantime I wrote a note and put it through the door and the lady rang me and I went to the shops and got her some things she needed. We’ve spoken a couple of times on the phone since then and none of the other people who said on Facebook they would help her have done anything at all.

And I almost didn’t do my note as I thought it was in hand.

Yes! 100% agree

This whole thing, unfortunately, has been an absolute boon to the sanctimonious community, which is sadly far larger than I previously thought.

Some of its annoying and irritating but some people genuinely do need reminding not to behave like absolute cockwombles towards people trying to do their jobs 😣 I still have to go to work not doing anything important and the amount of people thinking it's ok to treat us like dirt is soul destroying! I don't think its virtue signalling to ask people to have some common decency and not be an arsehole - the posting of the little notes that they've written to their neighbours is a bit cringy though no matter how lovely they may be.

I've been posting tons of pictures and videos of my kids and their home learning/daily walks. It's for their dad (SI in another city) and their 4 grandparents - and I wanted to log as much of this as I could to look back on.

I do tiny captions "Our walk today" etc etc . I let the pictures do the talking most of the time. I don't do huge speeches about how hard it is, we all need to pull together, stay at home, we can do this blah blah. I hate having orders barked at me, and people preaching to me about what I already know.

I am really appreciating FB for keeping in touch with family. My kids school pages are very active. There's a group for our village with little ideas for the kids. No showing off on there at all. There's a lot of humorous posts too.

Once this is over I'll come back off it though, because I just cannot stand the brags/preaching. People are doing virtual yoga - fab - get on with it instead of getting your kid to film you so we can all watch you doing it so we can "like" it and praise you! Keeping in touch with your mates doing videocallls? Great - we don't need to all see screenshots of you making faces at each other and drinking wine together.

If can and want to help the vulnerable, get on with it without showing off. It just shits all over the whole thing.

Why don’t you leave FB if it bothers you that much?

You don't need to get rickets to be a good citizen.

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I think rainbow loon was because the rainbow has been appropriated by LGBTQ and it makes her as a woman feel scared and threatened - the sight of a rainbow!!