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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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Scout2016 · 01/05/2020 11:54

I was sent this by a nurse yesterday. I hadn't been clapping anyway but it reinforced my thinking.

To not clap anymore
iswhois · 01/05/2020 12:19

Last night was insane, fireworks and the like.

Love how fireworks are vilified on bonfire night but now they are a weekly event.

I think it's insulting to be honest

pixiepoopoo · 01/05/2020 12:22

I absolutely hate it. All those MP’s who voted against the nurses pay rise now praising the nhs. Makes me sick. The hypocrisy. Clapping because it’s free.
In my area they let off fireworks which really helps. My dog is now terrified every week instead of twice a year.

HappyBdayCaptnTom · 01/05/2020 12:23

@Merename Surely if you work for the NHS you’re not expected to partake in clapping for the NHS? That would be like clapping for yourself Confused.

bullyingadvice2017 · 01/05/2020 12:25

Some twat let a firework off last week round here. A poor cat ran scared and got hit by a car. Bang on 8 when all the neighbours were out to see. Then someone had to go and tell a very old lonely lady that her cat was dead.
People just don't think.

Sparkles333 · 01/05/2020 12:51

Oh thats horrible, that cat was probably the only company she had. Poor lady 😕
Fireworks and banging pans is just going too far, its scaring the pets and waking the kids. When's it going to stop ? When someone loses an eye or receives life long scars from a stray firework.

Noconceptofnormal · 01/05/2020 12:56

I don't know when it ends that's the issue. The pandemic is obviously going to be part of our lives for at least a year so are Boris, Rishi and William & Kate etc going to be expected to be filmed clapping every Thursday for another year...

I think whenever lockdown ends is when the 'official' clapping should end.

Merename · 01/05/2020 12:56

Haha @HappyBdayCaptnTom, I understand the point, but if he wanted he could clap for others working in nhs. I think the main thing should be that no one is ‘expected’ to clap - do it if you want and don’t judge if people don’t, I say.

Jezebel101 · 01/05/2020 12:58

...and I told my grandchildren that, against all odds and even in the presence of indifferent neighbours, I clapped and made everything magically alright again through the power of my applause. I wouldn't say I'm a hero, but obviously it's true..

A profile in courage.

PhilCornwall1 · 01/05/2020 13:06

I think whenever lockdown ends is when the 'official' clapping should end.

It should have only ever been done once. Whatever meaning it had has now been lost because of the competitive clapping, pot banging and singing.

Sadly it now means bugger all.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 01/05/2020 13:06

@pixie, the nurses pay issue was Labour spin, it's been discussed a lot on other threads. The thing that got voted down was an amendment to the Queen's speech and was for all of the public sector.

About 3 months later the sector did get the pay increase as has already been planned.

Bozlem80 · 01/05/2020 17:34

I’ve done it the first 2 weeks, saw a post on a local fb page someone was shaming their neighbours for not clapping, named the street & really made me angry, for one how do they know their neighbours aren’t clapping indoors, putting their child to bed, suffering themselves with corona, grieving for someone who has recently died, has mental health issues the list goes on! My DH donates food to hospitals so he helps in his own way, just because you don’t clap doesn’t mean you don’t care!

bitteroulbag · 01/05/2020 17:58

This thread makes me so glad I left the miserable moany UK. 97% YANBU? Dear god! Here in Paris we lean out the window every evening at 8pm and applaud and cheer our front line workers. Every single evening since lockdown, like our Spanish & Italian neighbours. We thank them in person when possible. It also reminds the fuckers in government who voted against pay rises for health workers and investment in health and education that we will not take that shite ever again.

LellyMcKelly · 01/05/2020 17:59

Farage banging on his manky pot killed it for me. Virtue signalling from a prick who is on record on a number of occasions says he want to get rid of the NHS.

lou1964 · 01/05/2020 18:02

Honestly I'm fucked, work hard in elderly care covid ward.couldn't care if you clap or not.just look forward to my rest days!

Dilovescake21 · 01/05/2020 18:09

My children (under 11) both love it and they really look forward to it. It's actually not just about the NHS but it's also really nice for children to feel part of something and connected to the outside world.

Jack80 · 01/05/2020 18:11

For the first week or so, we live with my mum, my eldest 15 goes in the porch with my mum and occasionally our 12 year old. Me and my husband clap in the house or in the back garden. I feel like some people do it to show their face not for the reason it's meant to be.

Noextremes2017 · 01/05/2020 18:12

It is just plain silly.

The NHS is many things to each one of us. I wanted to clap the guy who fitted my stent after a heart attack; and throttle the clowns who took 8 hours to diagnose a blood clot on the lung and suggested I go home with a pain killer! That is the reality of every organisation - NHS included - good and bad in parts.

Choccylips · 01/05/2020 18:23

Letting of fireworks goes totally against what this disease is all about. Anyone doing that needs arresting or being put in a lab filled with smoke so they can't breath.

Jeeperscreepers69 · 01/05/2020 18:24

When this "nhs are the best" buisness is changed to key workers are the best. Then i will clap.

Oscarsdaddy · 01/05/2020 18:24

I will clap every Thursday until it’s no longer needed but I do appreciate those that maybe getting a bit fed up with it, six weeks in and clapping is fine but now we’ve got idiots banging dustbin lids, pots, pans, drums, singing. Where will it end ?

1forsorrow · 01/05/2020 18:51

Why would clapping be needed? It doesn't achieve anything does it.

Ephe17 · 01/05/2020 19:08

We both work in the NHS and have never clapped.
It's cringeworthy.
Plenty are making big sacrifices, losing loved ones or livelihoods.
Not just NHS key workers.

3746xvy734 · 01/05/2020 19:23

Did it once. I know my friend who lives across the street goes out every week and she'll probably say something when she sees me about me not being there!

I am a bit of a people pleaser and the the second week it happened I almost went out as I realised she would 'disapprove' but I am realising you can't keep doing things just because other people want you to.

Stonerosie67 · 01/05/2020 19:24

We all clap in our street....no fireworks, no pots and pans, no airhorns, just pretty much the whole street out for a couple of minutes clapping to show our appreciation of the NHS and key workers. My best friend is a theatre nurse and says when she's at work, they can hear the applause and it lifts their spirits...that's good enough reason for me to carry on doing it.