Nope, I didn’t do it then and won’t do it now. I was sick as a dog with Covid and lost my mother at the time, I needed rest both mentally and physically and every Thursday during my month long illness ( it is not 2 weeks!) as soon as I managed to finally get in a comfortable position and try to sleep my neighbors woke me with their pots and pans banging, whistle blowing and towards the end they were letting off fireworks
I knew how much it pissed me off and I didn’t want to inflict that on another person who was also feeling like death trying to grab any kind of comfortable sleep or nap.
My friend is a nurse and she hated it as she would come back from work, shower, get cosy and ready to chill and then come 8pm... it all kicks off. The clapping didn’t disturb her so much but certainly in my area and hers the clapping was no longer the done thing and was simply about who could make the most noise with pots and pans and banging on the bins and fireworks.
I live in one of the worst effected boroughs in London/uk and it’s infuriating when I see the vape shop open, the linen/bedding shop trading, the stationary shop open, the knitting/craft shop open, the nail shop covered with newspapers on the window thinking we can’t see through the gap they are still doing nails, clothes shops that don’t even have a website allegedly offering click and collect yet there are 30 women in the shop buying kids clothes none of them distancing and no masks! The nail shop is literally 50metres from the police station and the other places within a 0.5 mile radius but they just carry on business as usual and will clap tomorrow
Rather than clapping maybe the hospitals and doctors would be happier if people just followed the rules.