Clapping hands for care workers

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Anyone going to be doing this?

Personally I think it's in line with those messages forwarded that are a modern version of chain mail.

I’ve seen it doing the rounds but most likely won’t be joining in. I’d rather do something actually helpful like donate money or food parcels. If I wasn’t in a risk group myself, I would probably be volunteering.

I'm a care worker and agree with you. Much better ways of being useful.

My 1st thought was that people with babies or early/shift workers who are living in close quarters - e.g. apartments/terraces - who need to be asleep at 8pm will be absolutely fucked over by it.

I don't think they need to worry Pic. Can't see many doing this.

I saw it advertised as #theclapforcarers
Which is probably not very nice for them!

I get that people are trying to be nice and boost morale but there are more effective ways.

My friend who is an NHS key worker and single parent, was handed a bunch of flowers and clapped as she went into the supermarket on Sunday. She said it made her cry and felt amazing and she will always remember it.

YgritteSnow

I think that’s different. I would do something like that. DH and I were driving past a nasty crash on the M6 once after queueing for ages and saw a police officer at the scene. We had a bag of minstrels in the car so we opened the window, thanked him for his work and gave him the chocolate. When DH was in the police, if someone brought him a coffee, he was always very grateful.

Blimey it's getting news time!

Still not doing it.

I don’t understand the point of clapping when there’s no carers around to hear it. I’d much rather shout a “you’re doing brilliant” through the window if I did happen to see someone from around here passing

This is something that's happening in Spain, where deaths from COVID-19 are rising horrifically, and there's been a social media to do the same here. It's not something the government dreamed up. So we will be doing it, because we're aware of the risks health care workers are taking every day to look after people who are very ill from this awful virus.

I understand the cynicism of others, though.

I've been a care worker in my younger years, and would have been lost without them when my DM was alive.

I'd rather the sector was made a profession, instead of an 'industry' and that equality as in employees rights, paid a living wage and not seen as a 'subserviant' job.

Bring the above and I'll applaud. A nationwide clap isnt going to give the backbone of so many elderly and family lives, any equality as deserving members of the country's workforce.

My husband is a doctor and while he finds it nice to be appreciated, he thinks this particular gesture is stupid and pointless. He would much rather patients stop giving him abuse and generally be more respectful whilst at work rather than loads of random people clapping when he won’t hear it anyway (we have no houses nearby).