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

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Just that really

What irks one person on social media, doesn't bother another. The virtue signallers - I just think "good for you" - it doesn't bother me if they need validation on facebook etc, but clearly winds up others. The thing that's annoying me is the endless round of 'funnies' ! 😂 - I get the same ones sent over & over & over by different well meaning friends on Messenger, WhatsApp, Text, carrier pigeon...they're funny the first time ..not so much after the 3rd

If I see one more smug LinkedIn influencer prick banging on about how "humbled" they are to be "giving back to the community" by "unashamedly" taking a job in fucking Tesco, followed by the inevitable 100+ comments going "wow Chris you're SUCH and inspiration and role model!". Fucking fucking fuckwittage.

DP is pissing himself because he's been designated a "key worker". He's a payroll manager, ffs, he just happens to manage the payroll for one of the emergency services

You don’t think paying people in the front line’s important?

Awww, @alsohuman you're welcome!

It's been a post that's been in my mind for several days but I haven't dared post on FB under my own name because last time I advocated kindness and tolerance I got - with a beautiful irony - an absolute pasting from some of my own actual friends.

Loving all the "I do (insert good deed) already but I don't feel the need to tell everyone!" No, just put it all over here instead. Stealth virtue signalling!

@MrsDesiree, I sort of did that, but it's anonymous here, unlike FB

Yeah I’m sorry I work in a cafe as a side job for cash, so I have absolutely nothing against cleaners (clean toilets every shift!) shop workers, delivery men or ANYONE, as I serve the public coffee and sandwiches and clean their mess and take their abuse. We are shut now and my main job is also on a hiatus but I’m lucky to be furloughed on 80% (whilst also doing about 2 hours a week email checking etc so nothing really). A lad I know who is a singer for events like a wedding singer, and thinks he’s fucking Beyoncé (whole other thread) has just done a ‘pleased to be able to announce as of tomorrow I begin my job as a key worker. I feel it is essential that I put myself at risk to help the country I love.’ . He’s got a job in our local co-op. Let me say I have the absolute upmost respect for the workers in shops like that, and I was working myself doing ‘takeaway’ until a few days ago when boss decided to shut for the good of everyone. But come on. You are doing it to pay your rent. Which there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with, but don’t pretend your sacrificing yourself for the good of the nation.

Still just gotta get it out there though. It's the same thing!

They've just said on the news that he's sending out 13 million letters. Which will be handy if you've run out of bog roll but is otherwise a complete waste of time and money.

So many fucking morons people still don't get it, just look at all the mn posts from people who do not understand the very basic things we have all been asked to do. He is having criticism for not making it clear enough (because stay at home and only go out for these few very simple reasons isn't clear enough) so he is sending it out in black and white... he can't win.

Boris and his cabinet have actually reacted really well to all of this and deserve our respect, whether you voted Tory or not they are now going to great lengths to get us through this while the stupid masses proclaim 'its just a flu!' and'I'll go for chips if I want to!' or the new 'my neighbour left the house twice best call 999'.

As a transport worker I'm deemed an essential worker. However, when a colleague tried to organise a Clap for Transport Workers on Twitter I had to giggle. My company is getting slaughtered for the lack of services because my colleagues and I are not impervious to Covid-19...we don't have the same level of love and we have a long history of striking soooooo...no. People were nicer to us earlier this month but now we are trying to reserve services for our public sector colleagues we are getting pre-pandemic levels of spite again. C'est la vie.

It's not just the NHS keeping the country going. It's police, local government, postal services, delivery services supermarkets etc.

You don’t think paying people in the front line’s important?

Of course it's important, but he can work perfectly well from home, and he and his team are doing exactly that. They don't need "key worker" status.

I agree. We are in a mad and uncertain new world and in record time the government has tried to protect society (socially and economcally) and has been throwing billions at the problem including by propping up people and livelihoods and incomes in unprecedented ways. Paying 80% of salaries for the furloughed? Investing billions into businesses and the self employed? a single MONTH ago none of this was known, planned for or prepped for.

I think a little credit is due for a fast changing world and a government that is trying to adapt super quick smart and to limit the economic impact for families.

Recently I've come to realise that alot of Mumsnet would have thrived under a Soviet regime.

Yes, true, but I was going to say that they wouldn’t like the fact they couldn’t criticise the President, the Politburo or the regime.
Though I suppose if they loved living in a Soviet regime they wouldn’t wish to criticise any aspect of it.

Yanbu, it's pathetic. Let's all congratulate ourselves when we return to work, pay our taxes, we are so humbled to contribute

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?

I don't know - you'd have to ask the people who started it. My partner and I are both key workers and our job roles have changed over the last week or so, but actually we are just glad to be public sector workers who have job security and know we will get paid. Whilst I am still at higher risk of contracting Covid 19 at work than I would be if I could stay at home, it is not the same risk that frontline NHS workers face.

Oh yeah.. The most genuine people will do it without having to plaster it on social media. I can understand doing it to encourage others to do the same or to raise awareness e.g. I have seen people donating blood/plasma and trying to encourage others to do it.
But all this 'today I did this' business.. No.

Hate it hate it. We have no end of people on fb slagging the kids off for daring to hang around in a group. The threads always end with threats about what they are going to do to them or their parents.
They are literally just hanging out, no crime, no abuse. Maybe a bit of litter.
This is in Normal times I hasten to add.

This week a couple of teenagers were seen together and I get it they shouldn't be but one woman comes on ranting and swearing about what's she's going to do to them for breaking the rules.
So I screenshot her fb status showing she had loads of friends round the house for a party and replied to her. She didn't take it very well 😂

My pet peeve at the moment are those people that use politics to think they can score points. This is NOT a political matter and if people are moved to clap I don't think the way they voted has anything to do with it FFS

The NHS is the very definition of a political matter

YANBU. It's the competitive staying in that's driving me mad though. I've deactivated fb because of all the accusatory posts about people going out etc. We are allowed out to exercise which I'm doing, we are allowed to care for vulnerable people which I'm also doing. Sick of people posting "what's so hard to understand people, just stay at home!" Fuck off you nosy twats.

Yes the nhs is political you are right. But is this really the time to be pointing fingers and attributing blame for political points. Surely now is the time to get behind the government and cross party measures.

I am certain that there will be a full and robust debate in the whole of society about the nhs after this passes ... well I really hope that there will be

Sick of people posting "what's so hard to understand people, just stay at home!"

God, yes. I’m sick of those people finding it so hard to understand that you are allowed out to get food, to get medicines, to go to work, to, go for exercise, to care for people, to drop off/collect your children if parenting is shared, to take supplies to those self-isolating, to care for livestock, to go to an allotment... In all those scenarios “stay at home” isn’t appropriate, no matter how often or how loudly they smugly bellow it at those who are trying to do the right thing.

What do they find so hard to understand, or do concepts like ‘facts’ and ‘thinking’ go out the window when they gleefully climb aboard their moral high ground?

(God, this thread is cathartic. I have been seething with frustration at the lack of sanity and common sense!)

The virtue signalling is winding me up far less than the crap even dangerous “info” some are spreading! I correct as much as I can as are several others on my friends list but wow people are idiots!

@Dumbie very much disagree. The cuts didn’t cause the pandemic but they will mean fewer people who have underlying conditions might survive and it also means the nhs staff are working under more pressure than they needed to be at this time.

So yes the Tory voters who now declare they clapped for the nhs are sticking in my throat to be honest!

Clapping does sod all, fund the nhs properly at all times.

And I agree very much it’s not just nhs staff who are key to the current crisis. Social care workers, civil servants of all kinds in fact are also key, as are retail workers, truck drivers, logistics managers...

And I keep seeing comments like “don’t make this political” if it’s not political why are there DAILY speeches from the politicians? Of course it’s political it’s the very definition of political.

I absolutely expect our mps to continue to do their jobs and point out to the tories where they are needing certain areas to get emergency funding and resources - which is mainly necessary because they fucked up and decimated nhs, social care and all other crucial public services.

I'm also finding it quite illuminating as a disabled person on benefits for several years all the people on media interviews giving it "I can't live on that amount" when it's what those of us already on benefits have had to manage on for years! Again I'm willing to bet the majority of those shocked at how little they'll get and complaining voted Tory last election.

I'm hoping it will lead to some eyes opening but honestly not holding my breath.

Best self serving post I have seen was on a local neighbourhood site. Someone posted asking for donations of hand cream for the local hospital as if all the extra hand washing the nurses hands were chapped and sore.
Great idea for a quick wipe around for all those hand creams gathering dust in a cupboard from Christmas gift sets but then a mlm bot pops up that she is a body shop at home rep and if everyone wants to donate to her PayPal she will put an order in.

Omg @Dontsweatthelittlestuff I saw an exact same post, she's got loads of people buying hand cream for nurses from her. Wonder if it's the same one or if all the body shop reps are doing it?!

@yearinyearout all the Body Shop andTropic bots have jumped on it, I've seen loads on Facebook the past week.

Typical of that lot though, vultures, never let anything like a mere pandemic get in the way of making your monthly sales target.