I don't want to clap

[OrlandoAlice]

I do support the NHS, I'm massively grateful for everything NHS workers are doing at the moment and to everyone who still has to get up and go out to work and keep things going during this crisis. However the clapping just seems a bit pointless to me. As a one off it was fine but to make it a weekly thing feels forced and I resent feeling emotionally blackmailed into doing something so redundant. The Doctors and Nurses I know personally find it cringy and would rather people follow the advice, donate, or volunteer.

I don’t get why this has become a class issue? What does the fact you live in an ‘upper middle class’ area have to do with anything? Perhaps your street weren’t clapping because they all have private healthcare...🙄

I support the NHS by voting Labour.

So have we got to do it every week now?

I hope not. I have young kids who are asleep by 7am. How is clapping on a weekly basis helping? The key workers are surely not around to hear it? Even if they are it’s probably annoying the hell out of them. Idiots setting off fireworks - how many will end up in hospital? A once off was fine but every week is silly.

Lol! 7pm

Or how about we start giving more tax every month to go directly to the NHS? How many of you will clap for this brilliant idea?

So have we got to do this every week now?
Erm, no.... you don't have to do it you know, it's not the law

Wills if it's up to my tool of a neighbour it very soon could become the law! I'll be in the stocks in a few weeks, I'm taking comfort in the fact that all that will get chucked is stockpiled loo roll. Hopefully.

I'm taking comfort in the fact that all that will get chucked is stockpiled loo roll.

Oooh...Where do you live?...I could disguise myself as a clapper and steel their loo roll.... we’re down to the last 3 rolls with none in a 5 mile radius...🤣

Yup totally agree. I'm not doing it - feels pointless and a bit ridiculous really (although I think the NHS is marvellous and am in complete support of all their work).

Once a week is hardly a big deal. Most of our street did it and personally I think it good to have a level of camaraderie. Nurses have been moved over into itu, risking their lives to help others. Of course it's up to you but out of respect to others personally I think yabu.

I said earlier on the thread that I haven't joined in. The examples on here of facebook shaming make me more determined not to give into any kind of social pressure to be part of it.

My dp was talking to a friend on Facebook tonight. The friend is a paramedic who has had to deal with suspected coronavirus cases. He can't see the point of the clapping and said that he hopes that if anybody learns anything from the pandemic, it's to put their cross in the right place.

I don't understand a landslide tory victory and then the clapping.

If you give two shits about the NHS, vote for a party that won't continue to destroy it like they have been. I hope they stop after this but that is incredibly wishful thinking.

You’re not being unreasonable...it’s personal choice. That being said, I work for the NHS and everyone in my department has found it massively heartwarming and supportive....everyone including myself is really scared, we are short staffed, we do not have enough ppe, staff and their families are already sick...it helps a lot to feel the public are behind us...I personally find all the efforts to “feed the nhs” more difficult to get my head round when many people have lost their jobs and there is a genuine need for foodbanks and vulnerable people to be fed...clap is simple and free x

Every week the clapping gets more extreeme, last week it was fireworks and saucepan clanging, tonight it was horn tooting continuously

Could we not just lump all the i don't want to clap threads into one big thread ?or even better give them their own topic?

:) a topic for clappers, like that idea

Its how I tidy my emails, they all go straight into folders set up by a rule, so I have a few I never open