Am I a arsehole for NOT clapping!?

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Just that really. Yes I appreciate the NHS and always have done and can only imagine what all of the staff are going through up and down the country but I just don’t feel the need to run out and clap on my doorstep! On my street we have no escalated to bringing out pots and pans to bang with wooden spoons and fireworks.. I know within minutes the videos will be uploaded to Facebook from mine and surrounding streets to ‘ show off ‘ the turn out ... part of me feels like a arsehole for not following the trend and the other half just cringes when I hear it all going off..

You realise that Labour started the cuts @Doyouthinktheysaurus I say this as a former mental health Nurse that was redeployed twice in twelve months between 2005 and 2006 due to the cuts so.long before the Tories got in.

I work for the NHS and appreciate the clapping but think people should only clap if they want to. I'm clapping for the care home workers and posties as well. I'm not sure extending it beyond the first week was a great idea and people's anti-authoriatarian "I'm not clapping just because I'm told to" sentiments kick in but I'm still glad some people are going to work and looking after people and am sad some people see clapping or not clapping as a political point scoring exercise.

I just dont. I'm not against it im not for it. I'm just not the out there type to clap and be loud in my street with neighbours. So now I think they all think were disgusting as they've all stopped saying hi to us. Ah well

The clapping is a lovely thing. Any sharing on social media or worse, shaming is utterly pathetic though.

I went out this evening again to clap. It was particularly for Careworkers today who don't get much recognition and respect compared to the NHS. We live very close to a care home so I wanted them to know we recognise the care and huge personal risk they are taking on everyday. There were even more people out this week than previous weeks. I find it very emotional. Its a good reminder to be out of my own little world and be reminded of the sacrifice of others. But that's my choice.

We are not a very connected street and certainly no one was FB filming or judging others for not being there. I think its totally your choice. But I'm not sure why you'd bother to moan about it on here.

My partner works for nhs and refuses to clap. We’re in a high Tory area and he finds the hypocrisy unbearable.

I live in a Tory stronghold. The majority of the people outside in my town clapping are the ones who voted for the government who were open about reducing funding to the NHS/voting down pay rises for nurses etc. I’m not really sure how they have the nerve!

Same here. My street is either a hotbed of hidden radicalism or a hive of hypocrisy. I suspect the latter.

I have noticed that the Green-voting couple across the road don't participate in the clapping, either.

I work for the NHS? I’ve spent Easter weekend on the ‘’front line’’ in ITU, couldn’t give a shit about the clapping, don’t know anyone who does, don’t need all the pizza from dominos, just need PPE protection , more ITU trained staff and fuckwits to stay at home, stop f*ing clapping, although the 100yr old gent walking around his garden made us all cry, he’s inspirational, deserves an MBE

I’ve done it once. The rest of the time I haven’t because quite frankly I feel like an absolute berk standing on my own doorstep clapping.

The people out clapping on my street this evening were the ones who are blatantly ignoring the social distancing instructions. They were also the ones who voted leave so 'all these foreigners would be sent home'. I have no wish to join them.

I don’t like the clapping and pot banging and fireworks. It’s just too late and too disruptive for people with young children

I was in the house doing work on my computer, misheard the noise and thought there were horses in my street. Was v confused about it all - sorry, I forgot! In my defense though, I was working.

My neighbours clapped. They have their children and grandchildren to visit. It’s meaningless.

The clappers on my road have daily visitors, they are hypos.
If you are a arsehole I am an arsehole too.

Nobody in my street clapped tonight, tbf, there are only 20 households! NHS staff have asked for no fireworks. 100 people a year are admitted to A&E because of firework injuries.

I do clap but as pps have said PPE and looking after all front line NHS and carers is far more important. Along with all other workers who are actually enabling us to continue getting food, medicine etc.
They have no choice in this and I am so grateful.

Only thing I really hate is the shaming and worse of people who don't clap.

I clap and I love the clap. Smile at my neighbours, join in with my communities appreciation of nhs and all the front line workers. some of whom i'm related to.

It's not the answer to every thing, it's not meant to be and it can't be. it is what it is.

wouldn't dream of expecting anyone who didn't want to clap to join in but equally don't judge me for doing it. But still here it is on here every week.

I have a meeting every Thursday evening with colleagues in California. DH had a look out of the window, he said it's just the families with kids doing it. I suppose if they enjoy it and it gives them some sense of community that's a good thing.

Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland is publically in favour of the clapping and the SNP are in charge of health policy here not the Tories. Is it just Labour voters who see it as a pro establishment thing not a pro community thing?

I supported the NHS by voting for Labour 🤷🏻‍♀️. I don’t see how clapping is remotely helpful.

I don’t clap. i do donate to our local hospital (to buy PPE...), and don’t vote for parties who try to cut the health system

To me, all that clapping seems to trivialise the seriousness of the virus. People are dying whilst people stand on doorsteps clapping, whooping, banging pots and pans....... minutes later it’s all up on facebook for the world to see how grateful we all are. If I’d just lost someone to corona it’s the last thing I’d want to see and hear. Some people are treating it like one big game. NHS workers need PPE not a load of over excited clapping seals. Imo it’s serving no purpose.

YANBU.
I can't stand this mawkish sentimentality.
We're in a horrible situation, instead of wallowing let's make productive use of time now and look forward to when it's all over.

No I don't clap because it scares my cat.

Cringy and hypocritical.