Am I a arsehole for NOT clapping!?

[Glitterzzz]

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..

No, I only clapped the first week. I show my appreciation in other ways such as buying a hand cream to donate to nurses through The Body Shop, donating to Captain Tom Moore's utterly inspiring NHS fundraiser and most importantly staying at home I have nothing against people clapping every week, however.

"The NHS" is a political construct which devours vast resources while delivering very little in return. Outcomes for almost every condition and disease are terrible by any international measure, the patient experience is terrible, and the NHS as a funding and delivery model has never, ever been repeated anywhere else in the world. It really is nothing like as good as Brits make it out to be and hell will freeze over before I join the deification of this outdated useless monolith.

I appreciate every clinical and medical professional and their supporting staff who work to keep us healthy, coronovirus or otherwise. NHS or otherwise.