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Any other people think the clapping is stupid and pointless

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EL8888 · 09/04/2020 23:22

Myself and partner think it’s a load of crap and don’t participate. For clarity we are both healthcare professionals. We would prefer the NHS to be funded properly and the public use it appropriately. Rather than this hypocrisy and “support”

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RedToothBrush · 09/04/2020 23:50

Filming seems a bit weird, what would you actually do with the film

Stick it on Facebook to prove how good you are as a person. Without actually done anything meaningful whatsoever.

This earns you a block or hiding on my timeline.

VaggieMight · 09/04/2020 23:52

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ShrimpSymphony · 09/04/2020 23:53

Yes it’s totally naff

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EL8888 · 09/04/2020 23:54

@RedToothBrush thank god for the block function!

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RedToothBrush · 09/04/2020 23:55

'It’s nice'

Nice.

Nice.

Nice is just the wishi washi sentiment of numbness where you don't feel anything meaningful. It's like taking a drug to numb your feelings to a whole new level of dull.

It's for the unimaginative.

Nice is cakes.

Nice is not clapping for Health workers who are risking their lives because the government weren't properly prepared even though they had a good six weeks knowing it was coming.

If you are stood clapping, you've almost normalised the idea that it's OK for Health workers to be unnecessarily exposed to a massive health risk rather than getting fucking angry about it.

Nice.

God I hate that word.

Butterymuffin · 09/04/2020 23:56

The level of vitriol against it surprises me. It's not like people are killing kittens on the doorstep.

I'm aware of the 'clapping doesn't do anything' argument - sure, and neither does complaining about it. All the assumptions that only the non-clappers do anything else in support of the NHS are tedious, too.

WearyandBleary · 09/04/2020 23:57

Also NHS but managers so have to listen to this PLUS hear how we are wasting tax payers’ money and are absolute bastards.

With Covid I feel as though I’m going to my mother’s funeral and people are clapping while I cry.

Britishsubject · 09/04/2020 23:58

We are truly staying in doors and isolating. For us it is twofold 1.) the sense of community as we are scared right now 2.) we are grateful for all that you do.

RedToothBrush · 09/04/2020 23:58

but now it does feel rather contrived given the amount of reminders we get.

Oh its completely contrived propaganda for the government to hide behind. Whilst everyone thinks it's nice and putting their efforts for the weekly fireworks show or thinking about how they can get on the BBC this week or how they can coordinate virtual tennis with their neighbours they aren't actually thinking about why the nhs are under such pressure in the first place due to a failure of policy and prevention.

RedToothBrush · 10/04/2020 00:01

'Nice' is just every one refusing to actually THINK about what's really going on.

Can't stand it.

Worst thing of the entire situation.

RedToothBrush · 10/04/2020 00:02

People are dying more because people think its normal and nice.

DailyKegelReminder · 10/04/2020 00:03

If you're happy and you know it...

chipsandgin · 10/04/2020 00:03

The hypocrisy is incredible, seeing streets in areas where they voted Tory and didn’t give a shiny shit about the crumbling, underfunded NHS before this standing outside banging pots and pans, ffs! Lets hope next time there is a general election those bastards #stayathomeprotecttheNHS just as enthusiastically as they clap for the healthcare system they all fucked up the arse!

NellMangel · 10/04/2020 00:04

Did the first one and found it very touching.

Didnt think it was a weekly activity. Now my Facebook friends are reporting back on the clap quality - good turnout, wobbly video proof etc.

Today it was the cheery bit at the end of the news - people clapping. That's how depressing things have got.

It's like an elongated version of when a panto makes you clap to a song, you do it at first, for the kids, then realise you dont like it, then you stop and watch the same self conscious mood gradually work through the theatre.

PotholeParadise · 10/04/2020 00:07

I don't like the clapping, for reasons that have been articulated very well already, but the rainbows are a slight different thing.

A lot of people across the country ( me included) are into painting and hiding stones for children and young people to find and rehide on walks. We're not doing this at the moment because of a risk that they could pronote coronavirus transmission.

So we've taken up window rainbows so that there's something to spot for children that isn't going to be touched and spread corona.

SlipperyLizard · 10/04/2020 00:07

It is pointless virtue signalling. We have the world’s worst Tory MP in my town, yet the clapping is widespread. Many of those clapping voted Tory. I don’t, never would, and I pay a shit load of tax. I’d gladly pay more, which is worth a lot more than clapping.

WearyandBleary · 10/04/2020 00:10

I like the rainbows: they’ve always been a sign of hope and diversity.

The clapping is like applauding the slaves as they trudge out to build the pyramids.

RedToothBrush · 10/04/2020 00:15

A lot of people across the country ( me included) are into painting and hiding stones for children and young people to find and rehide on walks. We're not doing this at the moment because of a risk that they could pronote coronavirus transmission.

The idiots in my parent chat have been doing the rock thing more as well as the rainbow thing.

I couldn't bring myself to point out the fucking obvious flaw in that one.

Same idiots were advertising clap for kids on a Sunday afternoon 'to show how special your children are for staying indoors when they don't understand'. I don't quite get why these children would then understand why they are being clapped for. Nor why doing as your parents say us a big deal. Or how this helps teach these same kids why the nhs workers are so special. Not a brain cell between them. Nor any imagination.

It's all about 'nice' and detaching from reality.

Meanwhile they are off round their best mates house 'cos they are lonely' and 'the kids like to play together'.

RedToothBrush · 10/04/2020 00:17

So now there are bloody rocks EVERYWHERE and I'm having to shout at my son not to touch the damn things every time we leave the house.

catfeets · 10/04/2020 00:22

I think it's ridiculous and pointless. Funnily enough the people participating near me are the ones who pay no bloody tax to help fund the things they're clapping for.
The pots and pans banging drives me crazy as I have a newborn who gets woken up each time there's a new clap for clappings sake.

Gin4thewin · 10/04/2020 00:23

Ive been added to a clap for boris group, a clap for the kids group, a rainbow group and a dance on your doorstep group. What are the masses going to decide were clapping for next!

RedToothBrush · 10/04/2020 00:26

I vote for 'clap for farts'.

Mutedgrey · 10/04/2020 00:30

@RedToothBrush
I’m really curious as you seem to have everything so sussed out. How are you engaging with what is happening in a meaningful way (that you are so convinced the virtue signalling morons aren’t)?

WomanIsTaken · 10/04/2020 00:34

I am in for the whole shitty mess of it; enraged by the strategic underfunding of the NHS and the outrage which is the lack of appropriate PPE. My disabled brother-in-law who lives in residential care has just been admitted to hospital with suspected Covid by a team of paramedics in scrubs and aprons. The care home staff have even less protective gear. At my wits fucking end. But I still clap. Several nurses and hospital porters / cleaners, as well as care workers (though not NHS) on my part of our estate and although I hate it that my neighbour is planning to move out into their summer house in the garden to keep her kids and husband safe, I still clap because I know they like it. My neighbour's kids like that we're clapping for their mum.
I also don't give a shit about virtue signalling on social media. It is nice to feel like you've done something to be proud of, and lots of people don't have RL access to other people to validate their achievements at the moment, so pop whatever it is on FB or similar. Just let them. I for one would much, much rather see people sharing naff stuff they've done with their kids while they're 'winning at lockdown' than posts bitching about how some other idiot is not.

PotholeParadise · 10/04/2020 00:35

RedToothbrush

Your area is very different from mine then. Our main "rock painter influencers" came down hard on continued rock hiding weeks ago. There was a stickied announcement on fb that it was too dangerous, a couple of rows about it in comments, and since then everyone (again me included Grin ) has been pushing the line that for now, we may decorate the rock stockpiles we had in already and but they do. not. go. outside. If you see a rock out that was hidden before these events, you photograph it in situ without touching it and post the picture for someone else to spot.

Have you considered using flamethrowers on the Whatsapp group?