"Yes it was .. it was spoken about on here beginning of December"
I read that thread, and like this one, just because some people have mistaken this as being an idea for the NHS, that doesn't mean that was the original intention. Yes, some people have got it mixed up with the clapping, but that's life. It doesn't make it true.
It was originally (and continues to be) jingle bells for Santa to raise Christmas spirit. Just some fun for children.
The reality of it is that its children, going outside of their house before bedtime on the most exciting night of their year and jingling a bell for a few seconds.
Why you have to get offended by that I have no idea. It doesn't matter if it happens every year from now, it doesn't matter if you don't want to do it. Nobody has to do it.
It doesn't matter if you haven't got any neighbours - would you not put a tree up because you have no neighbours? Or not bother with a Turkey because you have no neighbours? No. If your children will enjoy it then it's all good.
You don't have to accuse everyone who gets enjoyment from little things like watching a four year olds face light up because they believe they are jingling a bell for Santa, as "virtue signalling", or "doing it for the fbook likes" or "buying into consumerist crap".
You don't have to "stand on your doorstep like a dickhead" - though it's pretty sad that giving your children a little bit of fun and wonder on Christmas Eve can't happen because you're more bothered that you worry the neighbours will think you're a "dickhead".
It really doesn't matter who does or does not do this. Nobody will be harmed by doing it or not doing it. It's just like leaving a mince pie out for Santa and then the parents turning it into crumbs because "he's been".
It does matter that grown adults take to the internet to get so angry and insulting towards others who are doing something harmless in the name of Christmas spirit for their kids.