Please no.... "clap for heros"

[Rosehip10]

Just no....

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55561108

I don't understand why it's coming back. This is after the government voted against a pay rise do it's not like it does anything to actually help.

It's meaningless unless it's backed up by action.

Boo for Boris I could get behind though ......

No thanks! Was annoying last time. We're all fucking struggling but I don't want a clap for it.

Why on earth does the women want to start it again? Self promotion?

It's ridiculous and patronising. Rather like that stupid pin badge from the first lockdown, it's a pointless empty gesture.

Health workers want better pay and better conditions, and the whole of the UK wants a health system that actually works. Right now it's a shambles and I think we're all way past buying the line that we have a world-class health system. We don't. It's a mess and our treatment options and survival rates are shameful.

I think instead of clapping we should be encouraged to all donate what we can once a month on a Thurs online towards research and Nhs funding which is already under funded and underpaid!

My wife cant wait for all the attention seeking twats outside her trust, clapping like a bunch of knobs....not

I'm beginning to wonder who is behind the clapping thing. The woman that started it portrays herself as a mother and yoga teacher, completely astonished at how the campaign took off. In reality she's a marketing director. Why the facade?

As I'll be coming in from work not long before that I'll won't be joining in. We don't need a clap. But.... My parents enjoy the chit chat afterwards, or they did in the better weather so it breaks there isolation

@AmandaHoldensLips agree, it's horribly patronising. What grips my shit in particular is all the people who voted the Tories in somehow thinking this makes up for the effect of that.

Helps the government deflect from the shit show I guess.

Oh god no not again. The only thing we should be doing with our hands is washing them

Seems most people are fed up with the clapping now. Just wait and see if it actually happens on your street or not (seems unlikely tbh!)

Didn't do it first time around and won't be doing it again.

It’s run it’s course. I won’t be clapping again.

My cat misses it
He likes to go out at that time and came back thinking everyone was clapping for him

I am too fucking tired to clap.

@Rosehip10 - exactly. I have deep respect for our health workers and it's not their fault that the NHS is on its knees. It was never designed to look after this many people and is completely unsustainable in its current form.

The only time I thoroughly approved of the public clapping was when people started banging kitchen implements and the snivelling little shit who lives across the road smashed a load of dents into his dad's car with a frying pan. That was excellent.

Oh, no. It is dark and cold. What was cheerful in the sun will just be miserable in January.

No, no, no. For all the normal reasons and but mostly because it is January!

No. Its meaningless. If people care about essential staff and health workers they should stay at home, and show them some respect by following the advice. A payrise, first in the queue for the vaccine, unlimited access to PPE and equipment might be more appreciated.

Please say all the first lockdown weirdness isn't going to come back again. It was such a relief to get back to, not normality exactly, but getting back to work and school giving people a sense of purpose again.

The competitive clapping, the non socially gathering of many different emergency workers outside the hospital, the bloody fireworks scaring my cat every Thursday (they haven't quite stopped from New Year yet mind), the painted pebbles everywhere, the pressure to display pictures in windows.... we did none of it. We won't this time either.

God no. No way! Ultimate cringe.

Plas can fuck right off.

I hate the whole "heros" schtick anyway - I never give to Help for Heroes just because I can't stick the sentimentality of it and I'd rather give to the poppy appeal instead. There are thousands of people quietly getting on with valuable work to keep the country going, help others etc etc who don't get acknowledged; on the other hand there are people who commonly get called hero by virtue of their occupation who really aren't. Just pay people properly for the job they do, give them the right equipment and protections, and forget the clapping.

It would be much better if people followed the rules and do as little as possible in terms of mixing rather than seeing the guidelines as aims. And maybe write to their MP to suggest NHS a workers and teachers get a pay rise.

I wouldn’t be going out in the cold and rain, either dragging my young children or risk waking them up or others in the street.

@Carlislemumof4 schools are not open for the majority of children.