Women who started the NHS clap now thinks it should stop

[Rosehip10]

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/22/lets-stop-clapping-for-the-nhs-says-woman-who-started-the-ritual

I agree. What do you think?

Aside from virtue signalling from politicians, the clap also seems to have descended into competitive virtue signalling - egged on by both normal and social media.

I'll be honest, I don't think people are all actually clapping for the NHS , the folks in my street just enjoy seeing all the neighbours outside once a week (whilst course being grateful for the NHS).

Also have those tedious "Dance Routines" by Medical Staff stopped yet?.We have been regaled with dancing Doctors and Nurses for weeks on end .Some very unnpleasant (Ambulance crew doing a dance with a pretend coffin FFS!) Maybe time to try and get back to normal now!

Bottom line is enough of the institution who saved your life is appreciative of the clap, therefore why not carry on doing it?

Oh look! I found one of the judgy neighbours, we keep reading about. 😁

Yes time to stop 🛑

@LillianBland, that is not being judged, the poster was clapping presumably because they felt appreciative at the time so why feel the need to stop because other judgy people think it's a waste of time? I dont note who does and doesn't clap, that first week my dds told me about it and when we opened the door I really wasnt expecting anyone else to be doing it, I thought I could look a right twat!

Definitely needs to stop ridiculous now. Makes me cringe every time I see the neighbours out clapping and cheering- after after the Conga antics of VE Day idiots.

I’m a bit suspicious of why anyone would want everyone else to stop performing being grateful in order to instead non-publicly ‘appreciate‘ the NHS. Like we weren’t already quietly appreciating before the clapping. That quiet appreciation and non focus on the NHS saw a lot of under funding of the NHS for years.

I’m sure any government who don’t really want to follow through with properly paying health staff or key workers will be really pleased if the focus moves off the NHS each week.

I don’t see logic in thinking that weekly clapping, or our kids making thank you rainbows to go in their windows or whatever else is somehow an alternative to caring about appropriate pay and conditions for NHS workers (and other key workers...)

None of us have any way to influence NHS pay or key worker pay except by voting for parties who promise to improve these things, or by applying public pressure. Clapping and visible posters of support = public pressure because it keeps a debate about pay in the public eye.

I bet prison staff want it to stop as they all start going mental at 8pm on a Thursday kicking doors, screaming, smashing stuff up etc ... all in support of the nhs (apparently)

When I saw that I was like "about f-ing time".

It's turned into a ridiculous virtue signalling contest. It's honestly bought out the worst in some people on my facebook. One person posted a video showing that they were the only people out clapping on their street, with a voiceover saying how awful and horrible and disrespectful all their neighbours were! So what if people don't want to participate?! It's not a competition.

The clap has had its day. It’s petering out in my street anyway. At first it we had relatively enthusiastic clapping, then mildly embarrassed clapping, then some people stopped all together and now it’s reduced to a few households at the far end. Thankfully we’ve never had sound systems, air horns or fireworks.

Bottom line is enough of the institution who saved your life is appreciative of the clap, therefore why not carry on doing it?

I've seen far more NHS staff saying they've had enough and would rather it stopped.

Bottom line is enough of the institution who saved your life

Oh please! You’re seriously trying to say you’re not judging the poster, with that little dig?

No-one I know cares if other people do it or not

that you know about

True but all the anti clapping stuff and judgements I read about here I just don't recognise where I live in Scotland. It's like reading about a different world, all the one upmanship.

@ememem84 Are you NI? HSC is the just the name for the "National Health Service" (i.e the UK's public funded health service in) in NI.

A lot of of the clappers will be back in my works setting in no time telling me that they pay their taxes and why have they had to wait five minutes beyond their appointment time with a few choice expletives
Shouting at admin staff about why has their surgery been postponed despite the fact ours is a service that puts clinicians at high contact risk and we now have basically less than half the theatre capacity we had ore covid
They'll be there and the clapping will be a distance virtue signalling memory

In our area it was lovely to begin with but the usual competitive pushy fuckers (one of them works as a call handler for NHS24) started nodding and sneering at the houses who weren't there for any reason and it made me feel awkward.

The next week we missed it (my autistic son was having a bad day and we ended up at minor injuries after he broke his finger after jamming it in a door!). Clearly we were more grateful than ever for our NHS that day! So when we got back, she was in her bedroom window taking photos of us arriving home on her phone. I'm not sure what she was planning on doing with them, but it all just felt it had gone a bit weird and cult-like for me so I've not bothered since.

There's also loads of fireworks get let off which literally causes fireworks on the community Facebook page, so it feels too dramatic for me now.

I haven’t done it for the last few weeks.. I don’t know why it’s even still happening

It ebbs and flows here.
Some weeks lots out some weeks just a few.
It is what it is.
We clap, but don't judge those who don't. There are many reasons why people might not clap.
I don't get the fireworks though.

@Rosehip10 no - Channel Islands.

My neighbour was the only person out there this week, making.a very angry racket that frightened my daughter out of her sleep.

Seems to have just been a cringe-worthy excuse for a few people with a borderline personality defect to appoint themselves as clapmeister for the street in order to exercise a bit of power over their neighbours. Individuals who behave in this was are covering up for lack of self esteem in their own lives and living vicariously through the management of others.