AIBU to think that the clap for the NHS is stupid?

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I don’t understand people clapping for the NHS and saying how much they appreciate them. Obviously they are doing an amazing job, but so are so many other people in other jobs.

Working during a time of crisis to save lives is their job, so AIBU to think that there’s no need for such a fuss?

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Well done

Yy jigsaw- apologies I seem to be following you around agreeing with you!

howfar they have done when the public has felt that they were fighting to defend or help our country/citizens e.g WW2, falklands.

I did think it was daft. I eye rolled when I heard it was to be every Thursday.

And then a family member who works in social care told me how much it meant to her. She had been pissed off that her friends were all furloughed and she still had to work even harder as family were now banned from entering the care home in which she works. When someone said that Thursdays were for all care workers she says it was the first time she felt that people recognised how important her job was.

A friend posted on FB that she had a shit day in intensive care, didn't have the right kit, the computers had failed which meant they couldn't transfer patients easily. She was then going home to her elderly parents who she couldn't even see as she had to isolate in her own home. She said the Thursday night clapping was recognition that she was actually appreciated outside the hospital.

These people are risking their lives (and a horrific number of them are losing them). They are doing it so we are all safe. It's not party politics. I appreciate what they are doing to protect us all and I'm glad there is a way to show it.

I find all this fascinating. I work in the NHS, on the frontline, in a fairly rural part of the UK. The hospital has never been quieter. By all means, clap for ITU staff, respiratory teams but a lot of sectors are very quiet. Elective surgery cancelled, outpatients cancelled etc. etc. Personally I feel embarrassed by all the clapping, freebies for the NHS - we will have jobs at the end of this, we are all being paid well. Yes some, including myself, are being more exposed, but many are not.

I think it's cringe and we have never done it, but if people want to, it's not really an issue.

What do you do for a living OP?

I’d rather not say 😐 @coffeelsmyonlyjob

Why?

It's a harmless placebo and I'm not bothered, but the cynical side of me thinks its rather useless.

I'm not clapping. I have family members who work in the NHS and other family members who are key workers in an industry that is as frontline but forgotten about by the public. All of them are working long hours in very demanding roles and I don't see why one should be glorified more than the others. I'm not clapping because it feels unfair.

I can't remember signing up to risking my own health and safety. I am currently responsible for 17 members of staff who are unwell with confirmed COVID19.
I can't remember signing up to working 100 hour week for 4 weeks on the trot.
I can't remember signing up to such personal and family sacrifice. My own young kids have hardly seen their mum and when they do I can not hug them.
I can't remember to signing up to holding patient's hands whilst they die when their relatives can't be with them.
I can't remember signing up to doing life saving operations on people who should have come in 1 week ago but are terrified and as a result have done very badly.

If you think that is my normal job then you carry on. Personally I think it is worth 5 minutes of your time to acknowledge the massive sacrifices many NHS workers are making.

No need for such a fuss - it's just a clap? It's not mandatory, you don't have to do it, just don't do it. What are you being bitter about?

Working during a time of crisis to save lives is their job

Have you any fucking idea how unrelentingly awful it is in healthcare ATM? The sickest possible patients, dying without family members present.
Colleagues going off sick, not knowing how many nurses will turn up for a shift or who the hell you’ll be working with.

What the fuck to they get a clap for? It’s their job.

The street next to ours is starting to sing Amazing Grace every night at 7:55. A sheet of A4 with the lyrics was put through the letterbox. Seems a bit much.

YANBUit is part of the religion that is the 'NHS'
Never mind the NHS planners failed to ensure proper equipment for their staff, or obstructed private companies offering to help with testing -the NHS has just become a ridiculous object of misplaced reverence.
In other countries it is a service provided to people from their taxes expected to do the job it is funded to do and held to account for failings-in this country people are the coveted to worship it -bonkers.

The NHS has basically replaced the Church of England as Britain’s national religion. This is the modern day equivalent to a mass prayer which is to be expected during times of crisis.

Virtue signalling nonsense

I dont like it. Im rural so i don’t have to listen to clapping and pot banging etc. BUT i went for a walk last Thursday and passed a farmhouse -sheep and cows for neighbours- and they were quietly clapping till they saw me and started whooping and clapping above their heads -ad if to say “you should be clapping too”.

Christ almighty, 🙄

Working during a time of crisis to save lives is their job

Shocking comment. It is not their job to work to save lives while wearing a cagoule or inadequate PPE to try to protect themselves from the virus. They deserve every bit of fuss they get.

or are you ACTUALLY just trying to spoil it for everyone else?
This is the most childish thing I’ve ever read on here

I’m a retired hospital doctor (36 years in the NHS), and I don’t join in the clapping. I live in a rural village, our nearest hospital is 10 miles away and the staff wouldn’t even hear us!
I don’t see how waking the neighbours’ babies and disturbing the sleep of shift workers helps the NHS one whit.
Instead, why not help in more practical ways? My DD has volunteered for shifts on the wards after her (wfh) office job, we have donated money to medical charities, and I asked the SCN on the covid ward who treated me, what gifts her staff would actually want, before sending them in. As expected, they were drowning in chocolate and hand cream and certainly didn’t want more!