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

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Just that really

In fact it’s the ‘ you’re nazi, stasi, scaremongering‘ comments on here I find the worst, telling people they’re jobsworths and hysterical etc etc. Or ‘its no big deal to most of us’ ‘you’re a twat for grassing up your neighbours’ etc etc.
Couple of weeks and they’ll know about it!

I saw something on FB calling for shops to be shut on Sundays to give all the hard working staff a break.

And the “home schooling” you are NOT home schooling and I don’t know why people are even bothering to try - teachers do teaching degrees for a reason.

Has anyone else listened to Billy Bragg singing Helen Oxenburys «We’re going on a Bear Hunt»?
Saved me from letting my anxiety go overboard yesterday.

Well its pissing me off at the moment the people stressing that others "stay at home, safe a life" yes pam, you can stay and work from home because your work facilitates that. I work in admin at a private hospital so I'm classed as key which is fine however I'm sick of feeling guilty for walking to work (8min walk at that) and being part of the problem.

Sarah, the best mum ever on fb is at home doing wholesome things with the kids and showing it all on fb. My daughter is currently staying with her dad while I'm working at hospital and keeping his family safe. I'm missing her so much its breaking my heart.

I well out to top up essentials yesterday and saw a laundry basket which I picked up for me to keep by the door for me to put my work clothes in when I get straight in at the door when I'm home. The woman at the til was like I cant sell you this. It's not essential. I nearly fucking cried. I feel like a criminal.

So many people on SM are being so bloody judged but they dont know peoples situations.

*I went out

In fact it’s the ‘ you’re nazi, stasi, scaremongering‘ comments on here I find the worst, telling people they’re jobsworths and hysterical etc etc. Or ‘its no big deal to most of us’ ‘you’re a twat for grassing up your neighbours’ etc etc.
Couple of weeks and they’ll know about it!

I rest my case about the rise of the neo Stasi - and it only took about 30 minutes.

@Mumto1girl3boys, i think I know where you're coming from, but if all the cleaners, shopping delivery people and food shop assistants downed tools I think we will have a very high appreciation of how key they really are. When this is all over, they will still be on their low wages, with low pension pots doing the jobs many others don't fancy.

I feel your pain OP. My social media feed is full of attention seeking tossers at the moment. It's arse clenchingly annoying.
Delivering food to your elderly neighbour = bloody great. Posting a photo of the food you sent = tosspot. Working as a nurse for the NHS = bloody great. Posting a selfie in a face mask with a post declaring yourself a hero = tosspot. You lose every single ounce of respect I had for you once you plaster what a saint you are all over social media for pretend internet points.

I’m with PPs who are dismayed by the amount of informal ‘policing’ going on.

Good deed virtue-signallers? Irritating but ultimately harmless.

Those people counting how often their neighbour is going out? Disturbing.

As important as the message is, I’m sick of being constantly reminded, via meme after meme (often from same person) to stay at home.

tbh i think there are loads and loads of people just trying to keep things going and without any support or appreciation.

I am a family law solicitor. Oddly enough people who behave fucking badly over contact arrangements and divorce behave even worse at times like this. I have had clients in a frenzy because people refuse to return children. I have had a truly massive spike in people asking to apply for non-molestation and occupations orders. I have had people screaming at me down the phone going carzy because they are - stressed. Well fine. i am also stressed. My DH has just recently finished chemo. I have 2 DCs, one of whom has chrnomnic health issues. I have chronic asthma and the past 3 days have had issues with my breathing with a massive spike in having to use my blue inhaler.

It's an uphill task asking people to conisder the lawyers, I get it. But - I am also quite literally working all hours and am waking at night worried to death about some of my clients who are stuck inside with abusers and who I know a non-mol is not going to come in time- and how can you implement a non-mol when you live in a bedsit with your abuser?

I was awake in the night with my asthma flaring up (although seems to have died a bit now). And I thought that I cannot believe I might be spending the last few weeks of my life working on other peoples issues for little more than abuse and approprbrium when I am worried about myself and my own family.

I find the virtue signalling less problematic than the racist idiot I seem regularly see who hates China, the Chinese and their ‘dirty goods’.

This crisis really does seem to be revealing things about people - not necessarily in a good way.

Yes it’s pissing me off no end, I’ve had to unfollow a lot on Facebook. I really appreciate the NHS, both now and before this happened but the hero worship is doing my head in. Let’s not forget that at least the key workers will still have jobs when all this is over, unlike many of us. Also if some people think that going out of your mind at home, worrying about losing your job and being able to do fuck all about it is a ‘holiday’, then they must have had some pretty shite holidays.

MadameBee some people are homeschooling. Admittedly I'm abroad but it's been made abundantly clear to us that if we don't get our children through the provided material they will fall behind as it will not be repeated. Our schools have been closed two weeks and my children are not being taught online but are receiving a timetable of their usual 8 lessons with the planned tasks plus 45 minutes homework. My 14 year old manages alone with a little bit of advice, my 12 year old needs help structuring his tasks but mostly manages the material now that we've identified good websites to use for explanatory videos, but I have to actively teach my 8 year old and keep him on task. He's still several days behind and we'll have to keep going for the first week of the Easter holidays, partly due to the days I'm not home til 11am because I'm a key worker doing late shift - on site on call - early shift twice per week and DH is actually working from home and on video calls between 9am and 11am Monday to Friday.

I am an ex teacher but taught secondary school in England and teaching a primary school child the Bavarian curriculum in German is hard.

When I say I am home schooling that is exactly what I mean. I wish I could set my own work project style in English, but instead we have to get through exactly what the children would be doing if school were open.

So just in essence- maybe a little more consideraiton for anyone who is simply trying to keep their respective shows on the road and keep all the balls in tha air.

I don't care if people want to virtue signal - anyone who is doing anything for others rather than whinge on the web should be applauded right now. If they need the validation, so what? Why get so wound up about it?

@Namechangetheworld why not just delete your FB then if seeing your friends updates pisses you off so much?
I mean, that is what FB is FOR. Updating what you're doing.
(I'm not doing any of those things, but I like seeing the nice things people are doing.)
Far rather see positive ones than miserable, hate everything the world sucks whiners.

the TV coverage of the clappers showed lots of people standing close to each other over garden walls or out in the street. Duh....

It's just normal to post this stuff online these days. It doesn't have to have a virtue signalling motive.

You could also see it as people sharing positive things they are doing, to feel less helpless and show that the world isn't entirely awful.

And it gives ideas to other people about how to help which they might not have thought about.

Usually I don't like virtue signalling either but in this situation that may be an uncharitable intepretation of why people are posting. Things are terrible right now, it's nice to see people caring rather than being 'I'm alright jack' or miserably bitching about folk trying to do good things.

FB is so cloying and infantile with its silly emoji and likes, its posing and virtue signalling, all against that puke inducing blue background. People always come across as shallow and silly on that corporate shitshow which steals the details of our personal lives and compensates us with status anxiety.

Posting asking where they can donate. It’s not hard, just google local town foodbanks, hospital page for donations. It’s the song and dance about it.

I was a bit at a lot of my friends doing the "our gps were called to war, all you have to do is sit on the sofa" meme. (Before the official lockdown)

Most of the people that posted were either SAHMs public sector jobs (not NHS) that they will still be paid for, or well paid jobs where they already WFH most, if not all, of the time anyway!!
Of course majority of people will be at home now but it grated slightly getting bossy humourous memes from people who will not be immediately financially impacted by just staying in!

Good deed virtue-signallers? Irritating but ultimately harmless

But are they? On the "report lockdown breakers to the police online" thing, we've had a round robin from the chair of our community managed library, stressing how vital it is to do exactly this to "keep everyone safe" and including the actual names of several he's already reported himself

For context he's a rabble rouser anyway, with a history of inserting himself into things which are none of his affair, but while he doubtless thinks he's doing the community a service I'm not convinced that encouraging folk to pit themselves against each other is a good idea

I wonder how many of the virtue signallers would also share that they panic bought all the pasta and loo rolls on social media, I bet a fair few of those who claim to be doing their bit for everyone else, also have well stocked cupboard