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.

The clapping was ok but round here they were letting off fireworks. I have a baby, toddler and dogs, and it upset all of them, which I could do without given things are a bit fraught anyway.

Don't do it, I won't be.

We also had idiots with fireworks here.

I wonder how many people clapping will have been for a nice long drive or visited the shops every single day?

I'm a carer. The clapping terrified my dog and really upset my severely anxious dd. It wasn't the clapping so much as the loud music, fireworks and hammering on bin lids.

If I was offered a late shift on a Thursday night I'd have to think very carefully a out of the anxious teen could cope with the anxious dog without self harming if I wasn't there.

I'd much prefer if people did something practical to help during the clapping time such as campaigning for ppe, better pay and working conditions or nip to tesco in their car to get me shopping that I can't carry home because I can't get a delivery shop. The clapping just seems like pointless virtue signalling. My neighbours have never cared about my job previously. When I performed unsuccessful cpr on resident I fell apart on the street on the way home and my immediate walked past me in silence. I'm not sure why I'm all of a sudden a hero who deserves such adulation.

Well.don't than no ones forcing you 🙄

I suspect at least some of the clappers are the same people who have been calling one another fuckwits and cunts on here in the past week or so...

I remember feeling the same when we went through a period of so many one minute silences for various events that it became meaningless.

Weekly?!

Yes, there were fireworks here as well, which I didn't expect.

I shall stay home this week and make sure the dog isn't being stressed out.

I won’t be joining in. It’s highly cringeworthy and also around here was a conservative landslide. Seems disingenuous. These are also the people playing football in the streets, not giving anyone any space on walks and stripping shelves bare.

Everyone is posting about it on social media. It’s virtue signalling at its worst.

I am curious as to why people locally are asking anyone with fireworks to set them off to celebrate, sounds like a great idea and just what the fire service, A&E, pets, those with PTSD need. The clapping meh, just don't join in, but it seems to have taken on a new life of just being something to post about you doing on social media.

Weekly clapping in the street = morons isolate for a week then gather closely together in the street and infect each other with coronavirus.

More work for NHS staff.

Secretly the clappers really love it as it's a virtuous excuse to get together for a street party once a week.

Once was fine but every week is a bit ridiculous. I think the first time was a week premature. The reality is that despite an applause and saying thank you a million times, many of these key workers are anxious about the effects their jobs may have on their own or their loved ones health.

People can thank them by staying at home and not having unnecessary trips to the A&E or GP clinic. Oh and they should be given free travel to work or free parking. For life.

Don't clap then! No one cares

Not doing it here either
It’s a pointless waste of time
Stayhome save lives and don’t go out doing stupid show off gestures

Don't.

I didn;t the first time = meaningless and crass.

This country has elected the tories for over a decade despite knowing they want to deliberately run down the NHS so it can be privatised. That's what actually matters.

All the clapping in the world won't make it better.

Some cock in my neighbourhood is going to play ‘heal the world’ and then ‘you got the love’ through massive speakers at 8 tonight

This is one of the most cringeworthy things I've ever heard. Unfortunately, if people insist on making this a weekly thing, instead of leaving it as a one-off event, there will be a lot more of this OTT nonsense in an attempt to keep the momentum going.

There is no need for you to. I'm NHS and wish they wouldn't do it. I'm feeling very low at the moment with patients dying everywhere and quite honestly have my own personal problems, I'm finding it quite stressful.

Yeah I didn't do it, makes me cringe! What's the point! I appreciate the nhs, but I don't need to lean out my window and clap to show that.

Another one here that agrees with you. Though I do think an annual 'Thanks Giving' day for those services that are essential but often overlooked could be an idea.

One-off: OK.

Every week: I feel like it’s an excuse for the scrotes to have a few tinnies, make a racket and set off their bloody fireworks.

I’m not doing it, I find it hypocritical in a constituency that has had a sky-high Tory majority since time immemorial. My friends in the NHS would rather have decent equipment and adequate staffing levels, neither of which will be fixed by clapping.

I also agree that it’s virtue signalling.

YANBU. Once is fine, but every week? No.

@39Seventytwoseventythree Makes their clapping feel fairly disingenuous when it would be more useful to let me work having slept properly

This illustrates what an empty gesture it is for some people! People can't see that clapping does not help anyone! Turning the fucking music down would definitely help - but he/she is clearly too damn selfish, or just too stupid, to do it.