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To think we should bring back the clapping

439 replies

NYEPOPPER1 · 30/12/2020 23:50

We seem to be in a similar position to March and the NHS is coming under serious strain. Aibu to think now is the time to bring back the clapping?

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getwhatyougive · 31/12/2020 07:05

@JamSarnie

Didn't clap the first time and won't if it comes back.

I did work for the NHS a long time back and don't understand the need to clap for people doing their jobs.

This this and this.
HeronLanyon · 31/12/2020 07:07

No. Rather than a clapfest I wish we would all every one of us wrote to our mp or similar to demand pay rises for those in nhs and care and education.

RizzleDrizzle · 31/12/2020 07:09

Actually support has recently doubled and continues to increase I wouldn’t count it out also remember mumsnet is not at all reparesentitive

Not in NHS staff it doesn’t!

Seriously if you work for the nhs go ask your colleagues would want a load of self righteous idiots clapping and bullying their neighbours

Or just to get the fuck through this, and see life and shifts return to more manageable levels.

Claps aren’t lovely their ridiculous

Brumplescruff · 31/12/2020 07:11

We had a name and shame the non clappers list.

A neighbour would monitor who wasn’t clapping and decide if they had good reason not to clap, and then post the roll of shame on Facebook.

That was nice.

khaleesi71 · 31/12/2020 07:11

So you don't advocate a pay rise to protect rich peoples yacht money the economy but you do want to clap for them? It's patronising, a waste of time and virtue signalling. Staff need a pay rise especially at the lower pay bands and free parking at the hospital.

nosswith · 31/12/2020 07:19

The best appreciation is keeping social distancing, wearing face coverings, and following the rules and guidance. Without exception.

Too many people were clapping and then by their actions putting more pressure on the NHS and key workers.

Mayra1367 · 31/12/2020 07:21

No no no

whatshalliget · 31/12/2020 07:21

Reminds me of this

TheWayOfTheWorld · 31/12/2020 07:21

Bloody hell, no, it was cringeworthy the first time. DH (intensive care doctor) refused to join in on the few occasions he was home at the appointed hour.

Arnoldthecat · 31/12/2020 07:22

No,,people in the NHS are doing a job for which they get paid. As an aside, the NHS is not that great anyway. Its fat bloated and is in need of improvement. I've waited 2 years for an MRI scan due to their incompetence and back passing. Its difficult to get a GP appointment. Its even harder now as they are further rationing routine appts in order to coin it in giving covid jabs at £26 a pop. Thats what the NHS pays them.

Meanwhile i am an essential worker and have been working all the way through this fiasco. I get paid for it an i neither need nor want any clapping.

louisejxxx · 31/12/2020 07:33

I think what would help is getting them all vaccinated pronto so that they all feel safer doing their jobs.

Missmonkeypenny · 31/12/2020 07:37

No thank you. DH is a paramedic and it used to make him feel very uncomfortable, especially when some of the people doing it and raving about how amazing the NHS are were then popping round the neighbours for a post clap cup of tea

CaptainSandy · 31/12/2020 07:41

Unfortunately the money simply isn’t there for a pay rise as the economy is trashed and the government is drowning in debt

Have you fallen for that claptrap?
There're plenty of money for contracts for cronies and to shrink our economy with a hard Brexit.

Wishing14 · 31/12/2020 07:42

I don’t understand how it can be possible to ask people to both stay at home (to support the nhs), but also to ask for people to write to their MP requesting wage increases in the nhs? If people are staying home, unable to work etc. and the economy is in dire straits - how is it possible to do both things?

LadyPenelope68 · 31/12/2020 07:51

@Brumplescruff
We had a name and shame the non clappers list. A neighbour would monitor who wasn’t clapping and decide if they had good reason not to clap, and then post the roll of shame on Facebook

OMG! That’s awful, what a twat!

SycamoreGap · 31/12/2020 07:52

@NYEPOPPER1

Why are people so down on the clapping?
Because it achieves nothing. If you want to show your appreciation for the NHS follow the rules and be pleasant to NHS staff if you need to use their services - I don’t see much of either in my areas.
firstimemamma · 31/12/2020 07:56

No, no, no! My fiancé is a paramedic and trust me having our toddler woken up does not boost the morale in this house.

There are many modest nhs workers / key workers who actively dislike the fuss and attention.

Also the vast majority of the people this clap is for are shift workers so it disrupts sleep for many.

There are many other reasons I won't go into.

Randomrebel · 31/12/2020 07:59

No people just need to grow a pair and follow the guidance not trying to bend or ignore the guidance almost every minute of everyday.

I only go out for exercise and have done since March as shielding. I smile a lot and say hello good morning to strangers to try and boost peoples mood. If neighbours or friends or an old person I chat from a 3-4 metre distance as find that helps improve my mood.

If they are struggling with MH/boredom and not vulnerable I suggest they do something good i.e. volunteer at a food bank, help with local area covid support group, volunteer for NHS Goodsam, phone someone who lives alone, phone facetime or go for a walk with a friend and bolster each other up etc.

diamondpony80 · 31/12/2020 08:00

No definitely not. It was fine for the first week or two but it lost its meaning as time went on. I know a few NHS people who felt it was kind of fake and virtue signalling

drinkingwineoutofamug · 31/12/2020 08:08

As NHS staff. Please no. The first time was nice. By week 8 , oh shut the fuck up. I was coming home from covid wards watching my neighbours mingling, then asking my with pretend sympathy if I was ok? How's work?
I wanted to scream at them. As I am now qualified and earn, £5 more than what I started on 15 years ago , that's even with my lovely 3% , I would prefer a pay raise, better working conditions, better equipment, more staff, facilities for patients.
Won't get that from clapping and pan banging.

Wishing14 · 31/12/2020 08:09

Also at a personal level I didn’t like the clapping. At the time my gran was in hospital (and went on to die there) and I encountered various incompetent staff who did questionable things, and a couple that were quite rude and unkind in that time. Also some brilliant and fantastic staff who went above and beyond. I did clap, but not for the nhs as a whole, for the nhs staff who are amazing at their job.

pilates · 31/12/2020 08:12

No thanks

Kazzyhoward · 31/12/2020 08:17

No, but I'd clap in support of the 3 million self employed who've been excluded from the furlough and SEISS support schemes.

GoodbyeRosie · 31/12/2020 08:22

The clapping summed up the best and worse of this country.

A nice gesture uniting the nation which was then spoilt by competitiveness, policing by neighbourhood watch busy bodies and eventually turned into a farce as people paused drunken street parties to clap off NHS workers going to work on night shifts.

The sight of Conservative M.P's who celebrated not giving NHS workers pay rises not long before, 'clapping' was sickening.

I firmly believe if you voted Tory in the last election you had a bloody cheek ckapping anyway.

Brumplescruff · 31/12/2020 08:26

[quote LadyPenelope68]@Brumplescruff
We had a name and shame the non clappers list. A neighbour would monitor who wasn’t clapping and decide if they had good reason not to clap, and then post the roll of shame on Facebook

OMG! That’s awful, what a twat![/quote]
Oh I know. I was on the roll of shame every week.

And the clapping got more and more ridiculous with pans and speakers and PA systems and all sorts.

Nonsense.