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Are you going to Clap for Carers tomorrow?

555 replies

Funkypolar · 06/01/2021 13:30

It’s back under a new name “clap for heroes.”

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AlwaysLatte · 06/01/2021 18:24

Hear us. Silly auto!

WhoLettheCatOut · 06/01/2021 18:24

Nope. Did it without fail last time but I'm not doing it again. It's not the same lockdown, schools are half full and my workplace remains open.

missfliss · 06/01/2021 18:25

No.

It's self serving and patronising

Livelovebehappy · 06/01/2021 18:26

Nope. It’s just turned into virtue signalling for a lot of people. I appreciate what people are doing for us, but don’t feel I need to go outside clapping. It’s icey as hell outside at the moment, so I feel I would probably add to their workloads by slipping and breaking bones.

ChairinSage · 06/01/2021 18:32

No. Just no.

CarrieCat · 06/01/2021 18:33

I thought last time it turned out to have been started by a group tasked with healing divisions after Brexit by bringing the country together? Anyone else remember reading that?

ibblebibbledibble · 06/01/2021 18:34

No

Mooballs · 06/01/2021 18:36

Nope. They don't all deserve it.

PhoebeSnow · 06/01/2021 18:36

@nonono1

Mainly people who are lucky to still be in paid employment. Which is my main issue with it.

Nobody denies that doctors and nurses are doingstirling work,
But, when all this is over, they will still have jobs a d a roof over their heads and food on the table.
Unlike thousands of others who's livelihoods have been completely ruined.
They are paid to care for people.
They are doing what they're meant to do.

Agree with all of this. Those of us losing everything will just be forgotten. We are Covid collateral.

What disgusting comments to make! You should be bloody ashamed. At least 600 health care workers have died up to now, give your fucking heads a wobble.
AwaAnBileYerHeid · 06/01/2021 18:38

Maybe....might boost morale a bit. I'll see if anyone else is, don't want to be that single loon standing in the street clapping like a seal on my own.

Justamumofadoc · 06/01/2021 18:40

No. I didn’t last time and I won’t this.

It’s virtue signalling. It’s bullying in many cases and does the sum total of fuck all for the state of the nhs.

So. No.

Fund the nhs properly. Pay the docs and nurses properly. Invest in training.

Don’t get side tracked with a dose of the claps.

MadinMarch · 06/01/2021 18:40

I can't see it catching on this time. I have the utmost respect for NHS frontline workers though, and thank them all.

Pootle40 · 06/01/2021 18:43

If you say so @IceCreamAndCandyfloss

Yes this is exactly what I should have expected as a parent when I chose to have a child. Jog on

Dowser · 06/01/2021 18:46

@Woolyminded

I'd rather drink shots of domestos while nailing my tits to a lampost. It seems to be a competition in my street for who can clap and bang their pans the longest. Last time the bint opposite me banged her fucking wok for a good ten minutes. I work in a school and I'd rather have had a bit of peace tbh
😂😂😂
Natsel84 · 06/01/2021 18:47

Sadly my dad died of covid in october . He caught covid in hospital, on a covid free ward whilst in a room on his own ..

So no , no I wont be clapping for the NHS.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 06/01/2021 18:47

No!

It's patronising and insulting virtue-signalling.

hoxtonbabe · 06/01/2021 18:48

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 Confused 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.

user1471443411 · 06/01/2021 18:48

No way and I didn't clap last time either. It was like a weird cult worshiping the NHS. And it was a bit strange how it stopped so early last time, when people were still dying in quite high numbers. It speaks too much of government programming.

LadyPenelope68 · 06/01/2021 18:49

Absolutely not, absolute farce

DenisetheMenace · 06/01/2021 18:50

Wonder how many clapping, whilst photographing for Instagram, will fully comply with new regs?

Friendnextdoor · 06/01/2021 18:51

@Natsel84 I'm so sorry to hear of the loss of your dad. I have lost my own mum aswell and know how horrendous it is not being able to spend their final days/hours with them. However, as a worker in a COVID ward, I have absolute anxiety about passing on anything to ANY of my patients. We spend all day and night cleaning, washing hands, wearing masks, gloves, visors, goggles etc. and I can say with absolute certainty it is a HCPs worst nightmare to have passed anything on to a patient unknowingly. I know it doesn't help you at all, but please know I'm sorry this has happened and so will the staff who were caring for him be.

MrsMomoa · 06/01/2021 18:51

It doesn't achieve anything, so no.

longwayoff · 06/01/2021 18:52

No. They deserve our respect, a pay rise, an offer of vaccination and a pay rise. Instead they're offered this. Dreadful.

Dowser · 06/01/2021 18:56

@Callipygion

If there’s a shout “fuck off” for Boris, let me know.
We could sing

Fuck off Boris
fuck off Son
fuck off Boris
Not doing another one!

Codswallop20 · 06/01/2021 18:58

No. I'm a nurse and I hated it last time, it was ok to begin with but it started to become something political and made me very uncomfortable.

I don't want anymore patronising claps while the government continue to run the show like the shower of shit it has been since the beginning.

It's not about wanting pay rises etc either, just for NHS staff to not be treated as cannon fodder and with a bit of respect would be a start.