Clapping the NHS at 8pm today

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I am an NHS worker

To all those of you who voted for the Tory party at the last election, a party that has for a long time tried to destroy the NHS and only realise our worth now that there is a serious pandemic afoot,

and to all of you who were clogging up the beaches, the Lake District, the parks in London etc without a care in the world last weekend

I don’t want to hear your hypocritical clapping out the window for the NHS workers tonight, so PLEASE DON’T

Just had some fireworks and distant clapping and cheering. I hope they are keeping well apart.

It’s so patronising the way we speak about healthcare workers. It’s a job. Harder than usual at the moment, but a profession they chose to go into. Are we having a quick clap for the bankers and lawyers and business people who pay top rate tax tomorrow night? You know, the people paying for the self-employed bailout? That deserves a round of applause surely.

They're setting banging things against the lampposts here and setting off fireworks.

Very emotional to hear the clapping in our road

Everyone was out on my street!

Standing round banging things*

It was fantastic to see!

I work for the NHS and the majority of people in the staff room voted Tory

No clapping I could hear here (Welling Kent)

I’m worried that some people will think it’s an excuse to hang out with the neighbours and have some kind of street party.

Yeah I just burst into tears with that. I could hear so many people clapping and whooping. Shouting ‘Thankyou!’ and the lads a few doors down chanting ‘NHS! NHS!’ like a football chant.

We are going to stand together as a nation and pull through this. I hope.

Not a whisper of a clap here. All my neighbours must be Tories put off by the OP

Rainbow don’t worry we’ll all legged it back inside after!

I am not clapping because I don’t see the point of it. Nothing will change by clapping your hands together. I find it infantile and forced. Anyway, I just had a shower and washed my hair so it would be an inconvenience. Then I will log onto facebook and see all the clapping videos and pics from the smug and virtue signalling.

Lovely gesture but I cringed like fuck when I heard my neighbour clapping. I'd feel really daft standing by the door clapping.

Not only clapping here, but fireworks. Ambulances straight to the burns unit is obviously exactly what the Royal Gwent needs right now 🙄

Well you'd expect MN to have this view.

Loads clapping òn our road and fireworks going off. I thiught it was greatvand very emotional when the radio then played 'We are the Champions' 😓

It's come from Spain and Italy where it's seen as a nice thing to show some appreciation for the health workers and also as a way to bring out a bit of community spirit as we're all cooped up in our houses 24/7. No one thinks it's tacky here, nor do the medical staff feel anything but that's it a small token of people's appreciation. However, I'm not surprised at some of the reactions on here. It's just not a 'British' thing to do.

So there's fireworks going off. Ffs.

Yeah MN is cats bum mouth, arms folded, tutting. Yawn.

We did it, it was very uplifting. Afterwards I also talked to my teenage daughter about how what the NHS really needed was money and staff, not just clapping. It did make her think, I hope.

Well said OP. Respect and a decent salary are a whole lot better than the clap.

Our whole street was out. About 70 houses. Very moving. Several NHS workers who have said they felt uplifted by it. And very moving for all involved.

Just walked outside and with the exception of the people next door and the house next to them, all my neighbours were out clapping. I joined in for my colleagues at work (isolating as I'm getting over covid19 and my wife is mid sickness) and to my embarrassment when they saw me they started cheering. I feel such a f**king fraud, as i can't risk going back for another 10 days. But to everyone who went out to clap, thanks. (blubbing now fgs)