Return of The Clap?

Petition here to sign to promote a pay rise for NHS staff, if anyone’s interested is signing / sharing
platform.organise.org.uk/campaigns/nhs-staff-bonus?utm_campaign=speakout_campaign_791&utm_medium=email&utm_source=thank_you

Signed. Thank you. There was also another link within that to contact local MPs to ask them to raise the subject with Matt Hancock.

Now that’s something that would be more worthwhile doing than a weekly doorstep futile clapping session. Especially if we email them every week and ask what action they’ve taken.

I don’t support it either. To show respect, people should be wearing a mask, keeping their distance, only going out for exercise or when it’s essential and supporting pay rises and maybe a covid bonus for carers and NHS staff. Carers in particular are paid disgracefully low wages. This clapping just distracts from the real issue.

I didn't clap either, as other people have said, at first it seemed a touching gesture, then I began to feel it was being manipulated and used as a distraction technique.
The only way to support the heroes is to not spread the disease.

The ‘street party’ atmosphere ( in some places ) always seemed a bit weird when 1000’s were dying.
I never did it

We did it once or twice but it's pointless for us as we live at the end of a small hamlet with a large garden so can't be heard.

I agree with all the comments about clapping versus a pay rise!

Agree wholeheartedly B9exchange

No, we didn’t do it first time round either. We live in a very rural area so no one would hear anyway! I agree that a pay rise is something to be given to these hard workers. To come home from a gruelling shift to be clapped by people who are being paid to stay at home or work from home must be very difficult and embarrassing. A meal for them or a bag of shopping on the doorstep is a much better option.

A friends daughter who is a nurse working on a busy Covid ward put a request on FB yesterday which said 'Please dont go outside to clap, do as you are told, stay indoors'. Stark words but we get the point I think.

Very quiet in my part of town last night. Too many sensible oldies staying snug and secure in front of the fire!

Did anyone see Starmer clapping on the news? Was it just me or did it sound very hollow?

I think some of my neighbours did go out and clap but I stayed indoors in the warm, counted myself lucky not to have to go out on a night shift in a hospital and signed the petition.

EllanVannin

More to the point if someone went round collecting £1 from everyone.

Nope. Hard to put money into a box without getting closer than 2 metres.

Craftycat

Living in a very close knit community in a cul de sac I enjoyed the weekly chats after the clapping in the summer but TBH I am not keen to go out in the cold & get chilled.
I doubt it will come to much TBH.

And that's one reason why I don't think we should do it. It it a prelude to people standing around chatting afterwards. Even if we're all 6ft apart, it's still against the rules to meet up socially with more than one other person even outdoors.

I am sure it would be appreciated more by the heroes if everyone did all the things requested to try and stay well while awaiting their vaccinations. Getting chilled by going out clapping will only cause more problems.

Agree, towards the end of the last clapping session it had lost something and currently i think the NHS and other hero's would prefer us to stay at home and follow rules of greater safety instead. It now only seems to serve those who want to take part rather than those it is intended for. The NHS staff know everyday how we all are reliant on them and no matter how tired they are they, as others helping us too, they carry on regardless. they deserve way more than a clap.

I so hope my post didn't come across as uncaring. I care deeply about all out nhs staff. Most of my family work on or bear the covid 'front line'. I just feel that at a time when the whole country is in real danger of coming close to bankruptcy, giving all public sector an additional pay rise is unaffordable.