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 ?

Reading out the names of the people who have died of Covid.I have never heard anything so insensitive!!

Totally agree. But that's been the rhetoric for the whole of the last year - covid covid covid, nothing else matters. Only people who "sadly died" of Covid warrant a mention. The rest of you - back in your box and clap for the NHS.

*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. hmm

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.*

This with bells on

No. It's just performative.

@Trumplosttheelection

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

Ok?

@Laeta absolutely agree, it just goes to show that covid is king and fuck everyone else. Unbelievable.

@Frogella

Of course not. I don't need the government to tell me when to 'remember' and I frankly judge those who do.

Judge what? At that time I'll be in lunch in the kitchen so I will pause. Why and how would your judgement fall?

silly sausage

I'll probably be silent. On my own. But I won't be feeling much - I don't anymore, just rage. The forums on grief are only interested in those who lost those to the virus in the year. Never mind those of us unable to attend funerals for other losses, to grieve and if I mention it my experience is apparently "irrelevant". Fuck them. I'm so furious with all life and death being coronavirus and anything else is apparently not worth having feelings about.

Sorry to hear that @en0la

It’s not organised by the Gov?

No. I won't. I haven't lost any one close to me. It would be disingenuous to take any more minutes of my life to pretend I understand what others are thinking or feeling. Even more so if it were in a work environment and had been mandatory.

For those who have lost people, or do want to participate, please crack on.

I think the only National minute silence that should be encouraged to keep is for Remembrance Sunday. By all means stop and remember any other time you please but all these “new” silences have diluted the significance of why we fall silent on Remembrance Sunday.

*Trumplosttheelection&

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

Well as a retired person I find those who think they are superior because they work for the NHS really offensive. Just so you know.

I assume you are paid to do your job like everyone else and don't do it for free?

I will do a minute's silence by default because I live alone and pretty much all my minutes are silent.

Me neither, RedcurrantPuff

@StellaKowalski

*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. hmm

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.*

This with bells on

This. They are not the only ones who face terrible situations at work and do all the hours under the sun. Also people have died of things that aren't Covid, had their last year on earth robbed off them by restrictions and often died alone, and they matter too. But you can't say anything about that, because if you say anything at all that isn't "pro lockdown, pro restrictions, 'NHS are angels walking among us' and we're all in this together" you're a selfish covid-denying granny killer.

No. I've always found minute silences pointless and performative.

We've all spent the past year thinking about the pandemic constantly so I find this one even weirder.

@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?

True, but please don't be one of those people who then comment on social media how sad it was that some neighbours didn't join in. I've seen a lot of judgment and pressure via social media. This also alarms me. I know that neighbours will notice that I'm not out on my doorstep and will wonder where I am. This kind of societal pressure can be an incredibly powerful way of bending society towards nationalism.

What I'm seeing at the moment is a rise in pressure to conform - to stand on the doorstep, because otherwise you hate the NHS/disrespect the dead, that everyone in the public eye must display the Union Flag (the bigger, the better) else you hate our country. People need to open their eyes and see what is happening.

A minutes silence doesn't feel so meaningful when you spend a lot of your day sat in silence in your own tbh.

Kind of feel like it will mean more once this is all in the past, not currently being lived through.

No.

I don’t do public virtue signalling. I didn’t clap, either.

I will be thinking about how many people actually died from covid instead of with covid and thinking about all the other people who died from other causes because they couldn't get treatment.

No. It all feels too ongoing to be remembered - it’s here in the present both here and overseas. Neither do I like public stuff of this type - it’s just not real to me.

But the sheer number of excess deaths, and the way some people have really suffered this year is horrific. Acknowledging the suffering and loss of all sorts of people in all sorts of ways isn’t ridiculous.

I will be silent anyway unless I have a 'phone call (which I avoid), or talk to myself.

Those who have died as a result of covid are never far from my mind.

No, lockdown for the last year has been depressing enough, I will be celebrating the few good things that have come out of it not depressing myself further by remembering the crap times

Not bloody likely. Since when did I need someone to tell me when and how to think about people I care about who have died? Or do their deaths not count, as they didn't die of our Sacred Covid?

@FAQs

Sorry to hear that *@en0la*

Thank you.

I will take a moment to pause.
Today feels like a singular moment in time, and I have surprised myself by feeling quite emotional.
I don't think it is just about those who have died of Covid, it has been a hard year to lose anyone for whatever reason.
I think this year has been such a strange and difficult time for so many that taking a moment to pause, and reflect on the past year is ok.

Nope.