NHS staff dancing..

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I couldn't see another tread on this. But if there is, please link it.

What's your opinion on this? AIBU to think this is in very bad taste?

Why are we bitter and twisted just because we don’t agree with this? Bitter about what?

I really do despair. Only on Mumsnet are people so nasty about NHS nurses, never heard such talk in real life. Disgusting

Save your despair for the cancer patients who are languishing at home, prevented from access to medical treatment. Save your despair for the mismanagement which has created this situation. Discussing the failure of the NHS to treat patients isn't being 'nasty' to nurses. It's called being a sentient adult with a functioning critical faculty. This toxic idea that neither the NHS nor its employees should be criticised, but worshipped with religious fervour is one of the reasons the NHS is so dysfunctional.

The biggest bug bear I have is the wearing of PPE when making these videos.

If I am in a clinical area I have to wear PPE, regardless of whether I’m on a Covid ward. I have to wear a surgical mask at all times which has to be put on at soon as we enter a ward area. So how am I wasting it by making a tik tok video?

Think about it. Anyway hiding this thread. Goodbye.

For fuck sake!! Dancing makes you feel good.

NHS staff are having an awful time doing a very hard job that they didn't sign up for. Leave them alone .

It's only Daily Fail type readers that would be so fucking miserable about staff dancing. "but ther'es peopel DYING" miserbale fucking twats all of them

This, I mean WTF?!
We're supposed to be miserable all the time, didn't you know?!
I swear, some people aren't happy unless they're miserable and dragging everyone else down into their pit as well.
Morale boosting, bit of positivity, how is that a bad thing?
Utter, utter fun sponge Dementors on here lately.

I think it is somewhat insensitive. Prancing around in their PPE in the hospital? It grates and it’s inappropriate.

Just the fact there is this controversy shows that it was ill judged.

They work 12-14 hr shifts, in crappy circumstances. I've seen plenty of people discussing their poor mental health being made to stay at home. I can imagine NHS workers just like other key workers have horrifically bad days and this is a great way of maintaining their own work mental health. The public are a hoot condemning them when they won't ever grasp what actually happens at the moment. As far as cancellations go, they have done that because if these patients catch Covid 19 they will probably die. It's an awful decision to make but I highly doubt it would be anyone in these videos who have had a hand in this decision.

Just the fact there is this controversy shows that it was ill judged

It shows there are a lot of miserable bastards around.

I work in General Practice. I totally get that nurses under pressure can get giddy and silly, I certainly have, but we have a strict social media policy and would be in big trouble if we made a dancing video in the practice.

Only on Mumsnet are people so nasty about NHS nurses, never heard such talk in real life. Disgusting.

Nobody is being nasty though, pointing out it's unprofessional isn't nasty. As for those staff doing their version of the Haka, can you not see why that's just not acceptable?

Is this the done thing now? Just calling anyone who has a different opinion a miserable bastard? Many people, including NHS staff, and those who’s treatment has been put on hold, feel these videos are inappropriate and unprofessional. But nah, they’re wrong to feel that way. They’re just twisted and bitter.

I haven’t seen any videos like this come out of Italy, Spain, France, Germany etc. So they must just be miserable bastards too. Miserable bastards treating the pandemic with the seriousness it deserves.

I quite like the spirit of it, it’s not the Italy type Hell on Earth type videos, it’s a much better spirit.

@Alsohuman, you said:

Conflating two completely separate issues doesn’t make for a particularly intelligent debate

Well neither does swearing or name calling.

we have a strict social media policy and would be in big trouble if we made a dancing video in the practice

Most organisations do. I don’t know what the hell has happened here.

It really isn't just a bit of morale boosting fun, it effects public perception of not just the NHS, but lockdown.

This!

I think it's a little, um, tone deaf. Not musically (though that too, for some of them) but relative to how the population feels.

@Doggybiccys I'm not a nurse, but a physio and I want to say I agree with everything you say.
No one will deny that working in the NHS has its challenges but HCP are bound by codes of conduct and it is very disrespectful to their professions to act in this manner.

I'd also like to say something in defence of NHS management - the decisions about how to manage this crisis was made by the government, not NHS managers. However, at the time everyone acted in the way they needed to mitigate against spreading the disease further and protect patients.

I've spent most of my day on the phone in calls with NHS managers planning how to introduce back usual services in a safe way for staff and patients. They work hard and are not deserving of the constant criticism.

As a country we need to get away from this worship of the NHS, understand properly how it is run and the challenges it faces with both local and national political pressures. Nurses are nit angels and it is nit fair on them to put them on this ridiculous pedestal that they are on at the moment.

All NHS staff are also being paid full salaries and have much more job security than any other sector at the moment (including the health secretary!). If food companies feel the need to feed people for free, then what about people in their community who have lost jobs? Or have been furloughed. It's in bad taste to keep giving freebies to people who don't need it.

I’ve just watched a tik tok of about ten Nhs staff members walking along a corridor with cleaning material to the song “Gangsta’s paradise”.

Specially, to the line “as I walk through the valley to the shadow of death”. (if I remembered the line correctly)

How could that even be consideres appropriate?

It shows there are a lot of miserable bastards around

Ain't that the truth

Miserable bastards? No, professional enough not to be making disgraceful videos mocking the situation.

@nicknacky if you don’t like them stop watching them! People are still making them, people are still enjoying watching them, get over it!

@Littlebluetruck, when did I swear? I’m generally a sweary person but I haven’t on this thread.

So in the example I gave a couple of posts up, can you honestly say it’s appropriate? Seriously?

And I will watch them if I want to, I don’t need to agree with everything I see on SM.