Will you be taking part in the one minute silence at noon?

[en0la]

Ironically I'll be at a funeral but will you be taking part ?

Sorry to those who have lost loved ones but you really don't need a Government prescribed time to remember them and if you think Johnson gives a shit you're sadly mistaken.

I have been feeling very sad and angry the last few days in the lead up to today, it angers me that the government is pretending to care now. They didn't do anywhere near enough to try to protect the country, so they shouldn't play act now.

Funny how it is always too early for an inquiry... right up until the point it is too late for an inquiry

Nope.

I don't want to stand - again - in a public display of something or other, and remember how shit this last year has been. Won't be lighting a candle or any of the rest of the shite either. Look forward, not back.

And that doesn't mean "disrespecting" families who have lost people - they can remember in their own, private way.

First I've heard of it. What's significant about today?

Not a chance.

@Thefamilybusiness

First I've heard of it. What's significant about today?

A year since the first lockdown

Never heard of this but no I won’t be doing it

@Trumplosttheelection

Well as a nhs employee I find those of you sneering at this event really offensive. Just so you know.

I'm not sneering at the event - I am very affected by the sadness and have NHS staff in my family. I am just angry at the grandstanding by the government on this. Personally I am reflecting all day, I feel really very sad.

I will. I'll think about the people I've lost in the last year - including those who died of other causes - because it's a bloody horrid time to die.

@Trumplosttheelection

Well as a nhs employee I find those of you sneering at this event really offensive. Just so you know.

I find it really offensive that someone who works for the NHS expects the rest of us to fawn over them all the fucking time.

You work hard. We get it. We've been told ever sodding day for the last year about our NHS heroes on the front line, even the ones working at home for the last year.

Doesn't mean I don't appreciate the jobs done by nurses/doctors. Just as I appreciate the work done by people in lots of other occupations.

@Trumplosttheelection

Well as a nhs employee I find those of you sneering at this event really offensive. Just so you know.

Not participating does not mean sneering.

People who died with Covid are no more special than anyone else.

No

@notacooldad

Probably by default because I've got no one to talk to.

This!

Nope. And I won't be standing on my doorstep with a candle either. I know several people this year whose deaths have been hastened by the Covid lockdown and whose last months on earth were fucking miserable for it. I count them as Covid deaths too, but they aren't included in the national day of reflection. They obviously don't count.

raspberrycoulis Well said.

@Trumplosttheelection

Well as a nhs employee I find those of you sneering at this event really offensive. Just so you know.

It's no reflection on the nhs and I find it odd that you are offended when so many of us re saying it's about the other people who have died too.

I can understand you being offended if it was an event to thank the nhs.

Mind you I didn’t clap for the NHS, donate to captain Tom, join in the clap for Captain Tom after he died.

I won't be doing anything in public. I will take my own time out today with a candle, but it will be personal, quiet reflection. If I honest I'm getting quite alarmed by the government sponsored displays of emotion we are expected to partake in.

@Trumplosttheelection

Well as a nhs employee I find those of you sneering at this event really offensive. Just so you know.

Happy to help.

No, I've got a work meeting scheduled then.

@OhYouBadBadKitten

I won't be doing anything in public. I will take my own time out today with a candle, but it will be personal, quiet reflection. If I honest I'm getting quite alarmed by the government sponsored displays of emotion we are expected to partake in.

Yep

All has a whiff of the Two Minutes Hate a la 1984

There are actually a lot of sneering comments on here. Why not just say no, why go into a whole dialogue of these are my thoughts and fuck you if you don’t agree attitude.

This site has always been a bitch fest of many people who have suffered empathy bypasses but why not just say nothing and have a little respect.

Reading out the names of the people who have died of Covid.

I have never heard anything so insensitive!!

Imagine being in a village where they have a minutes silence and read all the names of the peopel who have died, if your mum has just a major fight with cancer. How will that make you feel? Your mum's fight wasn't important? Your mum wasn't important. Or your son who got killed in a car crash. Nope, he's not mentioned but Betty the 101 year old who had lung cancer and died with Covid will get a mention.

I find that it so awful I can't even believe people would think it was ok.

But no one is being forced to take part, just don’t? It’s not difficult is it to understand you do have that option right?

No

@FAQs

But no one is being forced to take part, just don’t? It’s not difficult is it to understand you do have that option right?

Some of us will be expected to at work. I would be if I was there today instead of going to yet another funeral - the fourth in three weeks.