I find the whole “clap for...” totally ridiculous. As a one off? Ok, fine. Ongoing weekly claps are just pointless, especially when it seems quite possible thst the whole thing is largely being driven by peer pressure, people not wanting to be seen not to do it.
Many children won’t really understand the whole thing and it won’t make their situation any better and it won’t help vulnerable children in any way. It’s all a bit virtue signalling and done “for show” to me. Also, children are not “hero’s”, they are children having to put up with a difficult situation. But they aren’t hero’s. We need to get out of this habit of exaggeration and superlative language, it doesn’t do them any favours. And it’s a bit nauseating, IMHO.
As a Dr working on the front line, I would far rather people put pressure on the powers that be to sort important things out now. And look after the NHS going forward, rather than promising the nation that they can get a better, more wide-ranging health service that can be everything to everyone without resourcing it to do just that. Then blame staff when it doesn’t have the best possible outcomes or shortest possible waiting times.
The hypocrisy of the vilifying of the junior doctors from the Tory government and much of the press, as well as many others, not too long ago is a case in point. Not that long ago they were all spoilt/arrogant/lazy, champagne-swilling junior doctors, desperate to swindle the tax payer. Now where would we be without them (and all the other people who keep the NHS functioning)? And at what personal cost? But of course now we’re all “hero’s”. Until this is over, and then normal service will resume and it’ll be forgotten.
And I know we are not the only group, many others will be treated in a similar manner.