To think a lot of those clapping for the NHS are hypocrites

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Just that really.

I’m not even talking about politics here and who voted for what party but the sheer hypocrisy of the some of the people who clap every Thursday for the NHS after consistently ignoring the ‘lockdown’ rules.

The couple over the road have their grandchildren over to stay all day every day, I imagine so their parents can work from home efficiently but that’s not the point.

My neighbour to the right is very pregnant and yesterday sat in her front garden with her partner and toddler and two other friends (no distancing at all)

and then the couple to the left have their parents drive over every weekend and come and stay!

There are others doing the same too! What part of, don’t visit those outs your household, don’t they understand?!?

They are all out every Thursday clapping and it’s just annoying me. I won’t be out tonight because they are all just hypocrites and I’d probably tell them so. DH says I shouldn’t bother what others are doing but I’ve got family working in the NHS and now a friend of the family being treated in critical care. So maybe I’m over sensitive, but I feel like we should care about others being selfish and the hypocritical clapping just winds me up. It’s just so tone deaf and shows how people lack self awareness ... I think some of it just to look good?

Tell me to shut up I’m just annoyed and probably being unreasonable but interested if others feel people are being hypocritical with this too.

I agree. Next door neighbours out every Thursday (last week with a drum kit) have rainbows on the windows and are sharing loads of NHS posts.
Yet they have different friends and family round every day, had. BBQ with a least 10 people over the weekend, all this with a kid with asthma and a new born

And don’t get my started on deadbeat dad smoking cannabis in the garden while holding the new born

I'm glad that I can't really see what my neighbours are doing very easily. I don't think my blood pressure would stand it!!

We clap from the upstairs bedroom windows & it's nice to hear/see everyone - I know some people really appreciate actually seeing people around them & feel less alone.

I agree, people all over my Facebook clapping for the NHS but then going out delivering home made cakes on their friends'/relatives' doorsteps.

Nobody on my street is clapping at all, including me. I don't feel bad. I support the NHS by not voting for parties that cut their funding, not going to A&E or the GP for every little thing, giving blood regularly, being an organ donor, following lockdown guidelines. Surely this is preferable to clapping?

I think SOME clapping for the NHS are being hypocritical

Not a lot...

Anybody who voted Tory and clapped the NHS is a massive hypocrite and needs to be shamed on social media.

support the NHS by not voting for parties that cut their funding, not going to A&E or the GP for every little thing, giving blood regularly, being an organ donor, following lockdown guidelines. Surely this is preferable to clapping?

I don’t care if people clap or not...but i think its possible to do all the above and clap

@Rufus Of course, sorry, my point was more that people have been aghast at me not clapping, as if I'm not supporting the NHS, but to my mind I am.

Don’t be ridiculous KathyBriggs Voting Tory does not mean you are against the nhs. You pick one candidate based on a number of things in the manifesto and which you believe if best overall. You might not agree with everything in the manifesto. I work for the nhs on the front line. I still voted Tory.

Well the clapping is ridiculous anyway. Once as a gesture, ok. Every week just daft.

The couple of nurses and paramedic I know just cringe at it. They are very aware the public didn’t care about them, voted for parties that kept snipping away at budgets but now we have a crisis they are hero’s and everyone loves them. When it’s over, nobody will get a fuck again.

The clapping is pointless 🤷🏻‍♀️

I don’t clap, why because I can’t be arsed and the health care workers I know cringe at it. I have never been to a&e, I didn’t even have my dc in the nhs, I haven’t visited a gp in years neither have my dc. I think paramedics, nurses and doctors are great people for going in to that work but the clapping is ridiculous.

Has anyone seen this? I like the sentiment but it made bigots like Katie Hopkins incandescent with rage. She seems to have deliberately misunderstood it.

www.instagram.com/p/B-9eE77hX-D/

'Anybody who voted Tory and clapped the NHS is a massive hypocrite and needs to be shamed on social media.'

So many things wrong with that I don't know where to start.
Posts like that make me actually worry about voting Labour as I have done for most of my life- I don't think people who think like that should be anywhere near power.

I don't clap. I think it's pointless virtue signalling.

Yanbu
Someone I know who went to a&e over some minor bloody sunburn is out clapping.
Someone else I know who has been openly meeting up with friends 2 times a week has been the most ardent person in making sure they clap. It’s virtue signalling. As a one off it was nice, every week so daft

My neighbours out clapping every week and fucking whoop whooping.
My neighbours also had a bloke on their doorstep with suitcase week one of lockdown. And a woman I've never seen before coming out today. Air BnB ? But out clapping - give me strength, hypocrites and dumb.

I think the clapping’s just something that people have to do now, it brings us all together for a few minutes & it makes us feel good. NHS can cringe as much as they like, I do it everyone, but probably most of all myself.

Well your neighbours sound like twats but they can be twats who appreciate the NHS. I know given a choice NHS staff would prefer people to comply with social distancing than clap but the two things are not mutually exclusive. Same with how you voted. I didn’t vote Tory and am complying with all the guidelines but will still clap to show my appreciation. I have friends who work on the front line both carers and in the NHS and they appreciate it so that’s good enough for me.

A lot of them aren’t even clapping for the NHS , they’re the usual types who do stuff for Facebook likes, attention or because they like their neighbours to think they’re better people than they actually are .. like the ones who play music out of their houses every Thursday complete with disco lights

Wow, ya think?

An intersection in the Venn diagram between the attention seeking virtue signallers and the hypocrites, you say?

Ive got a tall hedge and can't see what anyone else is doing unless I stare out the bedroom window. But I think from what I can see most near me are being very sensible.

I think people will be thinking I've been home for weeks now I'm not contagious. So they think it won't hurt to see loved ones for a while. It's wrong though to do so!

I'm very independent and I am not attached to the hip with family etc. My parents like to see my kids but they never have gone out of their way to arrange to visit or invite us to them. If we go visit there's no Sunday roast or sleepovers for the kids. It's very much cup of tea, a chat and back home. I emotionally cope fine not seeing family. I'm not missing them badly or anything as we are used to seeing them once a month sometimes twice. We are used to them not babysitting etc.

I can't imagine for families that heavily rely on eachother for childcare. Often people to to their mum's for a cuppa most days. It must be much harder for them to be separated. So whilst I think people are idiots for bending and breaking the rules I can see why some are struggling with being seperated.

"The couple over the road have their grandchildren over to stay all day every day, I imagine so their parents can work from home efficiently"

Don't assume. They might be key workers, like my DD, who at first i had to do childcare for, but now my eldest and their Dad can.

"My neighbours also had a bloke on their doorstep with suitcase week one of lockdown. And a woman I've never seen before coming out today"

Possibly going into quarantine after returning from another country? Or they are putting up key workers?

We've had cases of cars being damaged and people being abused in public, because people are assuming that those around them haven't got legitimate reasons for doing what they are doing.

Not everyone has been able to 'just stay in', 'not mix households' (they can for care reasons), so you need to stop with the assumptions.

Oh and my DD, has just had the virus, so has her best friend (tested), so both will be out everyday next week stocking up on shopping for family/neighbours, because we know that there is some immunity for a few weeks at least.

artistformerlyknownas, "going out delivering home made cakes", sorry but we were told on the BBC q&a that we could do that.

I feel about clapping the same way as u do about Children in Need, Help for Heroes, Poppy Day etc. Vote to pay more tax so those helped by these charities are supported as a matter of course. They should not be dependent on being a suitable enough sob story to goad the public into giving to ease their conscience and make them feel good about themselves.

If we are going to be judgemental

• anyone who has ever driven over the speed limit/ while talking on a mobile
• anyone who has used recreational drugs, smoked, exceeded safe drinking limits, is overweight, does not exercise regularly, does not eat five portions of fruit and vedge a day,

...and that probably encompasses 75%of the population

is also hypocritical in applauding the NHS. Or maybe we should just recognise that nobody is perfect and get on with our own lives.

Exactly as you suggest OP. People are hypocrites.
You just have to read some of the posts and comments on MN to see how self obsessed and selfish people are with regards to the lockdown!
Lots of people seem think that lockdown applies to everyone else, but obviously not to them!
Wankers!