The clapping, please make it stop.

[orangejuicer]

Is it just every week we are in lockdown or is that it forever and we have become a nation of clappers? Do I need to move?

There are always negative Nancy’s!

We went out and clapped, I have friends who work for the nhs, who are carers, who work in supermarket... all essential workers. They go out and clap too!

It’s nice to be nice, take part if you want to, if you don’t want to then stay in with your windows closed! Dd and I have taken part, no instagram videos or Facebook live posts in sight, we do it to show our appreciation , Not Virtue signalling! 😂😂😂😂😂

Clapping and fireworks here too. The cynic in me tells me as soon as this is all over people will go back to not giving a shiny shite about our nhs, care workers or any other frontline worker.

I think it's wonderful 😊

It’s wonderful and lasts a minute. If you don’t like it stay inside you miserable sods.
Nobody is claiming it makes any material difference but it makes people feel better and shows that we care

Ok, ok, I know I'm awful but I keep forgetting to do it. 😔
My elderly neighbour rang me this evening to see if I was going to do it, she was pretty tired, bless her, but I could hear the noise outside her house while she was on the telephone. I thought we were just clapping our hands, when did the fecking pots and pans start?!! People are trying to get children to bed, not me. Now if you don't do it you feel dreadful....

We lost track of time and DP was driving back down our street after popping to Sainsburys just as everyone came out to clap, he decided they were cheering his amazing driving 😁

And at 8pm my wife had just settled down for a nap after an exhausting day having chemo. And get this- one of the neighbours out clapping her hands raw this evening reported my friend to the police for going out of her home too much. Our friend is leaving her home in order to provid e essential support to our family (86yr old resident mil, and our dog) while I take my wife 80 mil round trip to hospital.

It has kicked OFF on our village Facebook group tonight because someone let off fireworks. People have worked themselves up into truly hysterical states because their dog was scared, and insults are flying left, right and centre.

I normally just lurk on mumsnet but I’ve just joined as I felt so strongly. I’m a doctor working with covid patients. Last night my temperature went up to 39 5 and now I have a horrible cough too. Have spent today in bed feeling rubbish, and then heard the clapping at 8pm. First time I’ve heard it as I’ve been at work the other two times. It was lovely actually. Please don’t all be so negative and moany!

Bit of a fun sponge x

It achieves nothing, but it makes you feel like you're doing something.
You have to be a bit simple to do it in my opinion.

Fuck your opinion, it counts for nothing apart from to highlight your rudeness.
My best friend is a nurse, she says she and her colleagues can hear all the clapping and the cheering in the hospital and it raises their spirits....that's good enough for me.
It's five minutes out of life, our community comes together, but most of all, the people it's meant for like it. That's what matters.

So miserable. I think it's great and I am an old cynic usually.

Every night in Spain?! Sod that when your trying to get kids to sleep

I was the only one in our rural hamlet of a few houses. I felt a bit billy no mates and I'm not usually someone who likes to stand out against the crowd but to me it felt right.
I know it doesn't pay wages and I know it's not a practical solution but I'll be doing it ( all alone) for the weeks to come

@OatcakeCravings we’re in England but DH is Scottish and plays the pipes. We’re a street of miserable buggers and no one’s clapped yet. Maybe I’ll ask DH to get them out next wk! Might wake DC though.

Tonight was the first time I had done it, missed it last two times. I was a bit cynical about it but I’m glad I went out. Not so much for the NHS and so on - they’re doing a sterling job and I voice my support for them in the ballot box - but because I had not realised how much I missed my lovely neighbours and it was a wee bit emotional seeing them all out. It’s been dead in my street, you don’t see a soul. It’s been a bit isolating, cooped up with two kids. So yes, I liked it. Just clapping, nothing too loud that would wake kids or anything, thankfully.

I’m an nhs worker and I think it’s wonderful, most of our street come out and clap and cheer every week, it’s so lovely to see and hear during such hard times.

Agree with a previous post as well.

The intention isn't for it to be fucking "fun" either, so people not liking the noise pollution aren't fun sponges.

There's nothing fun about this situation, it's a dire state of affairs where people are being worked to death, literally.

But no problem, have a ball clapping and cheering into the air.

i wonder how many people doing all this shite slag the nhs off in normal times about waiting for appointments and how it's all a crap system and wanting to go private.

"I suspect that the people who’re clapping are the same ones who clap the pilot when the plane lands."
Yesssssss. So true.

I haven't clapped, but a friend of mine who's a doctor says it gives him a massive lift when he hears it. It's a small gesture but shows that people care.

I’m not arsed either way, 1 minute of noise once a week is no skin of my nose to be honest, and neither do I think it does anything for the NHS. But my children really like to join in, in their own childish way they are showing support for people who are doing something they don’t reallu understand, in a situation they don’t fully comprehend, but they know these people are doing something special. So we clap.

I can not be arsed to tie myself in knots about people who think they shouldn’t be clapping and should instead wait 10+ years to vote non Tory.

Some people just like to have something to whinge about, and the kindest thing is to let them merrily cats bum their way through life feeling affronted.

Not a sound in our village but that doesn't mean we don't support the NHS.

Some people aren't comfortable with a show. That doesn't make them bad people.

Plenty of community spirit in a quiet way.

Never mind the clap 👏, if people want to support the NHS they should:

1. Obey self-isolating / social distancing rules.
2. Eat less & move about more.
3. Stop smoking / drink less alcohol / stop using recreational drugs.
4. Become “expert patients” & learn how to manage their conditions.
5. Take responsibility for their health & mental well-being ...

This with bells on!

My feed shows video from the local city hospital . The local police outside clapping - lights from the cars etc - Don’t think the medics and people in the hospital thought it cringy, virtue signalling or a boring little onus / intrusion into their evening . Have a word with yourself OP.