She's a fucking receptionist in a probation office. Uh, I wasn't clapping for you love.
Why weren’t you? You’d prefer if probation office staff just decided it was too risky and stayed at home? You don’t think that might impact on society?
but the clapping was for the NHS staff - specifically frontline staff
Why was it? Why aren’t other people doing their bit to keep the country fed and safe being appreciated with a round of applause? This attitude is exactly why I didn’t join in. People who have chosen healthcare as their vocation and do it for the love of the job and helping people are working in environments designed to reduce cross infection, generally with the appropriate PPE to protect them, being managed by people who do this kind of thing every day. They are no more worthy of praise than someone who has taken a minimum wage job to keep the wolf from the door and is now working with little protection, managed by people who really don’t have a clue how to keep their workers safe. I applaud anyone who is going out to work and risking their health and that of their family.
Yes, that includes Betty the cleaner for the water board who’s job it is to keep the place clean so that the people who make sure we still have running water don’t become ill.
NHS workers are great, but they are not bloody Gods.