Clapping for the NHS

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This makes me cringe. The U.K. shrugged its shoulders and voted for a government which they knew decimated the NHS a few months ago.

And now people are standing on their doorsteps clapping. I think it's beyond insulting. I know we didn't all vote conservative but how patronising when NHS staff are putting their lives at risk.

Do you not usually say thank you?
How can that be virtue signalling

Think people are starting taking the piss / trolling these threads now.

This place has turned into the biggest bunch of sneering whining bitches. Honestly people complaining about simply everyone. Dog walkers, joggers, people with delivery slots, , kids stroking cats. I dare say somewhere someone is slagging off Joe Wicks. FGS what does it matter if people clap outside their own homes?. Why must everything be turned into something to be snide about?

I am a Tory Voter, I did not clap to make myself feel better. I don’t want the NHS run into the ground. Do not play your leftie card thank you. The NHS workers on ‘the front line’ are amazing. Any other person who just happens to work for NHS needs to get a grip of themselves. I am in the forces but I am not a hero as my job is not ‘front line’. I seriously despair at those who think Corbin government could have done a better job. This is a worldwide unprecedented event.

This government should be paying NHS staff much more than they get

Which is very unlikely to happen because once this is all over there will a fucked economy and austerity MK II which will decimate the NHS and indeed rest of the public sector.

Shops staff, other key workers will be fucked due to rises in the cost of living with which their wages won't keep up.

The clusterfucks that have been made in this crisis will have their non govt scapegoats identified and slaughtered.

And the sheep will vote in Boris with a bus full of empty promises and meaningless slogans.

But hey, NHS Staff should feel grateful that for a few weeks in 2020 people spent a couple of hours every Thursday clapping for them.

Oops, sorry minutes.

I work in social care.

PT workers are getting paid for extra hours, full time are told we will get to take the 10/15 extra hours we are doing - when?

We still have to go and see families.

I clapped tonight but not just for the NHS, for everyone on the “front line” doing more than us usually asked of them whilst also coping with how this is affecting their own life.

But hey, NHS Staff should feel grateful that for a few weeks in 2020 people spent a couple of hours every Thursday clapping for them.
you what?

@Poppiesway1 I feel for you and will be thinking of you. If it's any consolation some of us are working in the background in cancer services to attempt to make things a bit better - but we can't guarantee anything.

Would you clap soldiers if they did a march around the town after risking their lives for our country and its people? You're dammed fucking right I would! It is not about politics it is about showing the people that are putting there lives at risk to ensure we can get back to normal a bit of respect... Even corbyn was out doing it because he's not an arsehole!

I know a few health workers who are really touched by it and they say it gives them the motivation to carry on when all seems lost!

I clapped last week but thought to do the same thing again each week with wooden spoons and pans is getting a bit naff. It’s easy to whack a spoon. Real weekly thanks would come from helping these people do shopping etc etc etc.

Am anti Tory, anti brexit, am pro nhs and pro properly funding it.

I clapped.

It just looks ridiculous that Tories and similar idiots do the clap. They're welcome to but we know it doesn't mean what it means to some of the rest of us.

I'd clap the government if it decided to appropriately fund the nhs and everything else we actually need as a whole.

For now, let them look like hypocritical clowns.

Agree with OP 100% and believe this is just another big PR exercise. If people want to show appreciation and this is their way to do it I’m not going too criticise them ... but I will call out any Tory who latches onto this.

Not had a chance to read the whole thread but I assumed the whole clapping thing has moved on from the original “show your support for the NHS workers” one and become a mix of “thanks to all the people having to go out to work, particularly those in close contact with others” and “hello, everyone in my street, just checking in, are you all ok, anyone need any help or a chat?” with a bit of “thank fuck, another week done and we’re all still here, see you this time next week!”

I think people like the neighbourliness off it. The co-ordinated wave. I don’t think NHS staff need to be coming on this thread crying hypocrisy, there’s no point, as it’s moved on from being just a thanks to the NHS. I was a bit last week at so many people on FB going “oh dear, what’s the protocol, do I clap myself? Poor confused lil ole hero me?” I mean, really? There is seriously no-one else who you think deserves a clap from you yourself??

I'm a nurse , it's patronising, and cringeworthy.

Do not play your leftie card thank you.

I'm sorry you don't like to be confronted with the fact that the Conservative party has never supported or wanted to pay for public services but that is quite simply a fact. It is and always has been their brand of politics. They think the only people who matter have private healthcare, And if you vote conservative then that's what you vote for. And you also vote for the vulnerable and disabled not to be taken care of.

To try to argue otherwise is disingenuous.

Jeremy Corbyn certainly wasn't my first choice of prime minister but I sincerely doubt that he would have inflicted the same level of pain and miserable on the vulnerable in society that we've had since 2010.

Yep @3rdNamechange
Cringe.
Because it doesn’t benefit those frontline workers one bit.
Send a donation to feed someone working a stupid long shift? Great!
Campaign for proper NHS funding? Great!
Stand outside your door and clap? Very little effort but little fucking point.

Because it doesn’t benefit those frontline workers one bit.

Thank you - that is the entire point of this thread. Not because I'm sanctimonious or elitist or anything else

Send a donation to feed someone working a stupid long shift? Great!
Campaign for proper NHS funding?Great.

And bloody clap if you want to because you feel a sense of community and solidarity.

They are not mutually exclusive things.

And bloody clap if you want to because you feel a sense of community and solidarity

So it is just because you want to stand outside with your neighvours then? Hell, if that's what you want do it, it don't dress it up as something else.

So it is just because you want to stand outside with your neighvours then?

A family member on my Facebook basically admitted this - she said it was an opportunity not to feel so lonely.

I mean obviously most people find quarantine to be shit. I'm lucky that I don't mind it.

A family member on my Facebook basically admitted this - she said it was an opportunity not to feel so lonely.

That’s good in itself. Mh taking a dive and loneliness will be a big problem for many over next couple of months. It can help both sides of the equation.

For me it's about showing gratitude for the sheer dedication of frontline staff. Your view of politics is fairly dated, I'm very working class and vote Conservative and I think they've done a great job so far.

What is wrong with collectively saying ‘thank you’?

And where can we donate for meals for staff working long shifts? I would gladly do that.

So it is just because you want to stand outside with your neighvours then? Hell, if that's what you want do it, it don't dress it up as something else.

@Leighhalfpennysthigh. No it's not " just because I want to stand outside with my neighbours". gods sake. it's because I am pleased to stand with my community and show my heartfelt appreciation.

Don't make this about me "dressing" this up. I don't have anything to dress up. My 3 sisters are doctors and I couldn't be prouder of them and their colleagues and everyone right on through who are slogging right now. Retail. social services, council workers, bin men you name it.

It is so patronising to be told that your rethanking is mis guided, hypercritical, foolish.

i know what I'm doing. i know why I'm doing it and the workers I know are all for it.

Just because