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To not clap anymore

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HerstoryInTheMaking · 30/04/2020 20:24

I really liked when it first happened. A lovely clap to show appreciation. But now its morphed into who can make the most noise. People playing music, letting off fireworks.

It just feels wrong, people are dying included health staff.

Dont get me wrong I love the NHS, love the heros who are saving lives and im more than thankful but it seems to me now this has become about attention seeking and whats worse is people filming themselves clapping.

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Calabasa · 30/04/2020 21:13

I dont clap, haven't clapped and 'm not going to.

The NHS need us to stay home, not to be out at 8pm banging pots and pans just to make ourselves look good to our neighbours.

I can respect and be thankful to the NHS in my heart, I dont need to make a song and dance about it.

VisitingtheInfidel · 30/04/2020 21:13

I’ve not been clapping at all. The first couple of weeks I was trying to sleep as had to be up at 3:00am and now, although my day off has changed and I don’t need to be in bed as early, people have taken to letting off fireworks and my poor dog is hysterical.

Mummyoflittledragon · 30/04/2020 21:16

I do it to connect to the outside world, to offer thanks and because we are all still alive and appreciate life. I also did not vote for the clown and feel conflicted about clapping as this helps his cause.

Mrsmadevans · 30/04/2020 21:17

Have stopped tonight , we just felt quite 'MEH' about it . I don't know why. It must be a known phenomenon l think. Some sort of apathy setting in l think.

Poppinjay · 30/04/2020 21:18

We sat in a paddock just outside a small town this evening listening to the fireworks, claxons and car horns. It's just a competition to see who can make the most noise for people like that now.

I've never clapped and I won't be doing so. If I clapped, I'd be surrounded by Tory voters who are being extremely two-faced by participating. I'd rather support the NHS in a more meaningful way like using it responsibly and voting for parties that wouldn't try to dismantle it.

Tomorrowillbeachicken · 30/04/2020 21:18

I don’t but I can’t do it out front anyhow as can’t do 2m distance from NDN out there

MardiBras · 30/04/2020 21:21

I just let the dog out and let him bark at all the noise Grin

JockTamsonsBairns · 30/04/2020 21:24

Goaty I'm really hoping it's parody too. I can't work out if the pp is being serious or not.
I'd like to believe that my children's grandchildren are able to look back on all of this, and feel some sense of utter disbelief at our country's response to this.
I don't doubt that the clappers have good intentions but, as a nation, we consistently vote for a party which openly decimates our NHS. To then applaud its workers during a pandemic seems ironic to me.

Xiaoxiong · 30/04/2020 21:24

At 8pm we were watching bits from Singing in the Rain with the kids with all the tap dancing and completely missed it. That being said, it's very quiet around here from the start, only one or two people clapping very far away for a minute or two that you can barely hear and certainly no car horns, klaxons or fireworks!

mondaynoon · 30/04/2020 21:24

I hate it and I'm a carer. I sometimes have a moment of panic thinking it's and Thursday and then a sense of relief when it isn't.

Jenasaurus · 30/04/2020 21:25

I thought I just posted on this thread then realised there is at least one identical thread on this.

redbushtea · 30/04/2020 21:25

I don't clap. The hospitals are really empty anyway with many NHS staff having nothing to do, as so many appointments have been cancelled.

Inkpaperstars · 30/04/2020 21:28

I do find songs, instruments, fireworks etc make it seem more about the people doing it wanting some sort of outlet and less about thanking the nhs. Just clapping could have made the point but no, not enough fun and get together for them.

Definitely an individual choice to clap or not and no one else's business.

GreenGlassVase · 30/04/2020 21:29

I’ve never clapped, nor would I
I also think Centre Parcs is of the same ilk as Butlins.
I’m not a sheep..

Audreyhelp · 30/04/2020 21:30

I find it really annoying . This is past a lot of kids bedtime .

Then everyone asking the next day if you clapped, each to their own I suppose.

Namesgonenow · 30/04/2020 21:31

When our children's grandchildren ask what we did during 2020 they will tell them "every Thursday at 8pm we all stood outside and clapped for the NHS and Carers"

I have never used a certain Mumsnet phrase but now I have the perfect chance to say “I just vomited a bit in my mouth”. For fucks sake @GoatyGoatyMingeMinge

Namesgonenow · 30/04/2020 21:32

Ah didn’t mean to tag YOU @GoatyGoatyMingeMinge

Livelovebehappy · 30/04/2020 21:34

Started off with loads clapping round here when it first started, then has gone down to just one family clapping this evening. It shows that probably the majority who clapped at the start did so for the novelty factor, or they’d be out there every week.

Lemonblast · 30/04/2020 21:35

Well done OP. Fantastically original thread.

bigchris · 30/04/2020 21:37

@redbushtea which ones do you know sitting about doing nothing ?!

notangelinajolie · 30/04/2020 21:37

I did this for a few weeks but tonight I went outside and clapped my appreciation for the nhs on my own in my back garden. I can't join in with the 'any excuse for a party brigade' who live in the houses near mine.
I don't think this Thursday night clap means anything much to them anymore - apart for an excuse for another street party. They spent the best part of last weeks sunny weather kicking balls across the road and throwing buckets of water at each other. And that's just the adults.
There are at least 6 families doing this. Bloody hypocrites to hold barbeques and play silly buggers and then go clapping in support of of the nhs when their very actions could lead them straight to hospital and the very people they bang their pan lids for. And so bloody wrong when we are supposed to be in lockdown.

Alachia · 30/04/2020 21:37

I think we should be yelling about the lack of PPE, the ideological starving the NHS of resources, the collapse of the Social Care system and the dismemberment of the welfare state.

Therefore I am not allowed out to clap by my teenage minder...apparently I would be embarrassing.

DamnYankee · 30/04/2020 21:37

In my corner of the US, we howl. Like wolves. It actually was happening every night at 8 PM.
At first it was a lot of fun, and we live in a community in the foothills, so the echoes were great.
It got a little tiresome after a while. I stopped participating a week ago. Now I hear it and go, "Oh, it must be 8 o'clock."
I've started to thank first responders/health workers for their service in person, like I thank veterans for their service to our country.
Feels more meaningful.

MissHoskins · 30/04/2020 21:37

@Yerroblemom1923
When our children's grandchildren ask what we did during 2020 they will tell them "every Thursday at 8pm we all stood outside and clapped for the NHS and Carers
Utterly ridiculous. My grandchildren are 4 and 2, by the time my children's grandchildren are old enough to talk I'll have been dead for about 50 years, I don't think it's worth haunting them to let them know how fanfuckingtastic I was to stand on a step and clap in a pandemic.

Audreyhelp · 30/04/2020 21:37

I wonder when they will actually stop clapping ? It’s not going to be suddenly over,