Are you going to Clap for Carers tomorrow?

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

Fuck no.

Ooooo boo for Boris has a nice ring to it.

@LeSangeEstDansLarbre

I’d rather everyone took that 5 minutes to email their MP to lobby for a pay rise for frontline NHS staff, and a realistic rise in NMW to give a realistic wage for the other support staff it’s supposed to celebrate, such as carers and people working in the food supply chain.

This!

Clapping for anyone is just covering up the govt lack of action flooding hospitals with people v ill/dying with covod, due to their total mismanagement.

If you're going to clap, please also mail your MP reguarly and activate for a decent NHS wage increase.... It's not increased for YEARS.

Nope.

Boris clearly thinks that teachers are heroes. That's why they are potentially having to wait until 2022 for the vaccine and schools are having to take kids that don't really need to be there. Hmmmm...

It is BALTIC out there, so no ta. I'll raise my wine glass from the sofa. Dry January was out the second home school was in wasn't it.

@FancySomeChips

Ooooo boo for Boris has a nice ring to it.

They already did one earlier in the year

Sorry mean last year

On the main point of the thread I think it will lift people’s spirits and be a bit of fun

Patronising twaddle. Give them a pay rise instead.

Anyone else getting a feeling of deja by at the moment? We've got Jo Wicks bouncing around in the morning again and now this?

No fucking way and my neighbour better not start texting everyone to remind us to do it or she’ll get a mouthful

I know they deserve a pay rise and are overworked and underpaid. I will be clapping, I can’t help their shit work and pay conditions but the least I can do is say thank you and clap my apprenticing. For everyone on here saying they are a key worker and you don’t want it, there will be someone else in your profession who feels better because we have shown we care.

No. I will be doing useful things like respecting lockdown measures and not voting for a shi t government

No. I feel it would be disrespectful to them this time.

No. It's an empty gesture and it always was.

I just hope that those who took part last time think about it and realise how they're being used.

Actually, I always found it rather strange and I feel that it cheapens the work of the NHS as though it's some kind of charity. I understand that the original gesture was to show appreciation but the only way realistically to do this is to pay healthcare professionals reasonably and provide them with access to suitable working conditions.

No. If others want to then that’s grand, but the pot banging, vuvuzela blowing and fireworks had better not come back..

No fucking way. Patronising load of shite, I already pay taxes, pay them properly and stop fucking around with free gestures. Stop making caring out to be something that should be done for free. Stop expecting mainly women to pick up the slack and a pat on the head is enough fucking reward. FUCK THAT NOISE.

no. And as I explained as an NHS worker I find it highly offensive, given they wont increase the salaries of most NHS workers instead just compensating with a medal. Also, if you clap you are adding to the ridiculous narrative bojo is pushing about nhs succeeding or failing timeframes and avoidance of pay increase.

Ha ha ha ha ha. No.

No. And if we have to put up with a bloke over the road trying to play a fucking trumpet again, things aren't going to be ending well for him

I will be clapping (at work). I work in a care home we will all be clapping each other. My colleagues have been amazing we are sometimes staying at work for 3/4 days without going home. Our residents who have been patient and kind even though they are lonely and terrified and our residents family's who have dropped off treats and offered support & appreciation. We will all have a bloody good clap & cheer that we made it through another week.

If it included - in no particular order - supermarket workers, including those in all lines of the supply chain, the bus drivers and train drivers who get essential workers to work, the delivery drivers, the rubbish collection, the postal workers, those who keep our electricity, gas and water supplies, the police, the fire workers etc etc etc .....

Please don't.

Nope, such a waste of time