Are you still clapping for the NHS/key workers every week?

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Yabu - No
Yanbu - Yes

I do appreciate key workers though! I just don't feel the need to stand there clapping or listening to people hitting a pan or bloody car horns going

People are doing it because they feel isolated, cut off, frustrated, scared.

A bit of camaraderie on a Thursday night. So what? It’s not really about the NHS

NHS workers don’t love it sniggy it’s so smug and cringy. And agree it’s all about look at me and how f....... fake I am. PS I’m an NHS worker and just want to do my job without all this shite. And when this is over I bet they all go back to slagging off the NHS like they were before.

No. I did it once. But not clapping doesn't mean that I don't appreciate the work that the NHS and other key workers do, I'm very grateful that there's millions of people keeping us safe and able to keep going.

At what point do we stop? When things like this are spontaneous they are are fantastic, but once it becomes the norm, it feels like it loses its impact.

Nope. I appreciate all that NHS frontworkers are doing. But I also appreciate all the other workers - the supermarket staff, delivery drivers, refuse collectors, fire fighters, cleaners, pharmacy staff and so on - who are also out there doing their jobs.

I don't like the fact that clapping has become competitive, and in some cases used to 'shame' people for not participating. I also wonder when it stops? Do we have to clap now every Thursday forever? Can we stop when lockdown ends, or when a vaccine is available?

I was quite bemused by someone saying last week that they were doing this so that they could tell their children's grandchildren about how they had done their bit during the 2020 lockdown...

A guy I know is so proud of his neighbours, they are all out singing, dancing, flashing lights, loud music on, I think its bloody ridiculous.

My DP is retired NHS, my daughter is a care worker, they need PPE not this bloody performance.

DD & I went out one evening, but I'm usually working on Thursday evenings and it's a bit tricky in my role to stop for a few minutes to watch neighbours clatter saucepans, especially when those same neighbours have daily visitors & trips to see friends & family.

We have had snide comments because we haven't caved into peer pressure. The irony is that my DH is usually upstairs doing another evening of overtime for the NHS. They probably have no idea that he's dealing with CV crisis mgmt all day every day.

I usually forget, but can catch up on the community Facebook page where one of the neighbours likes to dress up in fancy dress and have himself filmed! Eg in a nurses uniform (not just clapping but walking into the road so everyone can see him encouraging others to clap). Some people like to show off and lockdown isn’t stopping them.

Yes I clap but I don’t judge anyone who doesn’t and i don’t post about it on social media.

(For the record I’m not a hypocrite clapper, I have been strictly observing lockdown)

No I don't go out clapping at all.. and was wondering how long it's going to go on for. Maybe till Christmas ??. or maybe the government will step in, and stop all the clapping after a certain date !! Clapping on your doorstep may be ok, but where I am, there is sometimes what seems like a whole orchestra in the street, and a vast array of kitchen utensils from every home.

Done it up to now but have decided to stop. I would join in a protest for better conditions for NHS workers if the focus shifted to that.

Never have, never will.

Never. Utterly ludicrous - they want & need money, not a clap.

Nope, there's no point and it's no help to anyone.
Instead we've donated to money and food to covid related charities.

It’s nice to see all the neighbours once every week and wave. I’m working long hours as an NHS nurse so I don’t see much of people at home.

My neighbours across the way are both nurses and we always give each other a big wave.

Thank you anyone who is still doing it - without being a judgemental or ostentatious twat.

No. I would clap if there were actual NHS workers out there watching, but it all seems a bit of an exercise in SM virtue signalling to me, which I don’t do. I don’t do SM at all.

Besides which, all the pot and pan banging is very autism-unfriendly so not something my household can partake in.

I never started and I’m not going to take it up now. It’s not that I don’t appreciate the work that people are doing, more that I think clapping in my front garden is utterly pointless. I think it’s an exercise in self-gratification as much as anything.

I think it's daft

Hordes of people standing outside hospitals is even worse. 2m wall doesn't apply apparently.

No.
Pointless gesturing.
In other countries the Health Service is a service paid for through taxes. Here it is a religion. NHS workers are patronised 'Aw bless 'em'
They are professionals doing a professional job and do not need sentimental twaddle.

I like doing it to wave to my neighbours but I do feel it's lost its impact. It was very emotional the first few times. I'm not sure whether i will go out this Thursday or not. Either way I'm going to raise a glass of wine to the doctor who fitted my emergency IUD this week

Yes and as much as I appreciate the NHS workers it seems to be more about peer pressure now. We live on a cul de sac and every neighbour is out and their kids have got pans to bang I feel like I'm doing it less for the NHS (because its meaningless and cringeworthy for them, quite frankly they need PPE and a raise) and more to stop the curtain twitchers gossipping.

Still clapping here.
It makes me know what day of the week it is, Thursday is no longer Thursday, it's Clap Day now

Nope. I developed ptsd partly due to treatment i received from doctors and nurses in the nhs. Some were lovely. Some were fucking awful people who couldn't have given less of a shit. I'm not going to stand and clap in the street and pretend that everyone who works for the nhs is automatically a saint or a hero worthy of blanket adoration. I support the nhs and i truly appreciate those who are putting themselves in harm's way. But i don't need to stand in the street and clap to prove this to myself or anyone else. Plus this jingoistic, British wartime spirit that the media are cultivating is popularising the idea that the nhs staff are "fighting" this virus on the front line. Portraying them as soldiers is a nice easy way to make their deaths, and the government's failings, acceptable because it makes it sound like they signed up (to die) when they didn't. My neighbours were gossiping about me last week as to why i wasn't outside clapping. But it's easier to say "I'm putting the dc to bed" than it is to say the above.

NHS workers love the fact that the country shows their support and thanks in this way - please don't stop

Not all of us. Many would prefer that we voted for a party which will properly fund the NHS long-term.

Yes it gets louder every week, last week was pans, fireworks and music! Really nice to see every door open on our street.