Did you observe todays minutes silence?

[user8271771]

Did you observe todays minutes silence?

I had no idea there was one.

Like so many others, I only opened the thread to find out what the silence was for.
Who 'decreed' it ?
I observe a silence on Remembrance Sunday, but not for other things.

To be fair, I think having a silence or even a minute's clap for Ukraine would be better.

No idea this was a thing today, I work for a Local Authority and they are normally all over this type of thing, but no announcement about this.

It seems yesterday was the Second National Day of Reflection that was "organised by end-of-life charity Marie Curie and marks two years since the UK’s first Covid-19 lockdown. A minute silence was observed at midday".

www.nursingtimes.net/news/coronavirus/covid-19-nursing-profession-marks-second-national-day-of-reflection-23-03-2022/

inews.co.uk/news/minutes-silence-today-time-when-uk-covid-deaths-national-day-reflection-1533827

I had no idea about this. Presumably we'll be doing it every year now?

@vipersnest1

To be fair, I think having a silence or even a minute's clap for Ukraine would be better.

It wouldn't have been better. It would have had the same amount of impact. None.

No, I was at work, wasn't aware of the time but as I work alone I was quiet for well over a minute at around this time!

I had no idea about it, doesn’t seem to have been very well organised/ publicised.

I was aware it has been 2 years since lockdown started but to be honest it’s not something I really want to reflect on anymore than I already do.

The last 2 years have been absolutely awful.

@vipersnest1

To be fair, I think having a silence or even a minute's clap for Ukraine would be better.

Do you? What would clapping for a minute do to help people in a war zone?

To answer the OP, no I did not 'observe' it and yes I did know it was happening. I view it much the same way as I viewed the doorstep performances and people who change their facebook profile photos to ukranian flags/advertise their vaccine status.

No. I was vaguely aware of it. I'm still too angry at how this government faffed around and didn't take the virus seriously, twice, until it was too late.

No . I was working.. wasn't aware of it no one else in work public or staff did.

Nope. The only reason I knew about it because I was standing in a queue last week in the Marie Curie cancer shop and they had posters about it in the window and behind the till which I saw.

No, didn’t know it was happening, it wasn’t very well advertised.

I wouldn’t have done anyway, not really sure why a silence is relevant and I don’t want to remember the last two years. I’m in forgetting about it mode now.

Honestly the first I'd heard of it.

Probably a thing like the clapping.

I don't want to have a minutes silence for anything. It changes nothing. It doesn't bring back people who died and they won't be aware it's going on as they're dead. A completely pointless waste of time to me.

There was a minute's silence?

So sick of these useless, handwringing public performances.

Clapping for Ukrainians? I think they'd rather their sieges were relieved.

Last year I thought it was a nice attempt by Marie Curie to recognise that so many people hadn't been able to mourn their loved ones in the normal way due to lockdowns but now it just feels like a fundraising exercise.
But anyway, as my dad died today, 2 years ago (so no funeral for him) I went out and thought about him and my mum (who died of COVID a month later)

We don't do a minutes silence for everyone who died of any other illness two years ago.

Quite

The silence was announced at my work 5 mins before it was due to happen, but tbh it was ignored by colleagues near me. First any of us had heard of it and we still aren't quite clear what it was for.

Are we having a silence for those who have died due to the Covid restrictions?

No

Nope first I have heard of it. Is it a social media thing because I haven’t seen anything in the press?

I didn't know it was a thing this year.

Last year I had the radio on and at midday there was a minute's silence after which they played Abide With Me. I admit I shed a few tears at that. But last year we were in the middle of a lockdown and it really felt as if it was never, ever going to end.