I hope you all clapped and maybe rang a bell or two.

[Beso]

I cried with emotion whilst doing it.

[Strictly Jake]

Suprised that pretty much my whole street joined in. Someone near even set off a couple of fireworks.

[caprimint]

I heard it outside thinking there was a party going on :skull:

I hope everyone was stood at least 2m away from each other :idc:

[Smithy]

Nope!

[Beso]

Suprised that pretty much my whole street joined in. Someone near even set off a couple of fireworks.

Same...I thought the local travellers were outside the window galloping horses up the quiet road to start with so peered out...then I got a bit of elation thinking. Omg they have found a cure, we are all saved..


Then I remembered what I had saw on the news earlier about it and my heart sank..so i cried but clapped loudly.

[montblanc]

what was it for

[AnnieK]

Me and my boy went out....quite emotional. You could hear claps for miles....people chanting and stuff...:love:

[Denver]

Nope!

You wont show respect but I bet you expect free health care

[Denver]

I had a lump in my my throat didnt expect much but everyone her was crazy for it, claps, chants, whistles, horns and fireworks

[caprimint]

You wont show respect but I bet you expect free health care
You don't have to stand outside and clap to respect what the NHS are doing for **** sake

[Smithy]

You don't have to stand outside and clap to respect what the NHS are doing for **** sake

!

[Beso]

what was it for

The NHS. .and we should do it tomorrow night and every night until this ends.it will give everyone a feeling of togetherness..whilst being apart.

[Shaun]

Why does everyone get so competitive about these things? Show your gratitude in whatever way you can, you don't have to take part in weird little public shows.

Some numpty around here even let off a couple of fireworks. Weirdo.

[Kate!]

I didn't go outside. Don't think anyone in our street did. :shrug: Does not mean I don't respect the NHS wholeheartedly.

[Shaun]

I'll get Chumbawumba's Tubthumping on full blast next time it happens, don't worry lads

[Vanessa]

No, but I heard fireworks outside. Or was it gunshots ? D:

[caprimint]

I'll get Chumbawumba's Tubthumping on full blast next time it happens, don't worry lads
Omg I LOVE this song :flutter:

It reminds me of MTVN, I think he posted it once

[caprimint]

No, but I heard fireworks outside. Or was it gunshots ? D:
AHHHHH I thought this a few nights ago :skull:

[Strictly Jake]

Whats the arguing about if you didnt you didnt

However a heck of a lot of the country did and it was a lovely thing to witness. Type in #NHS on instagram go on recent and look at the hundreds of videos. It makes us feel united in a time we need it and show our thanks to the true heroes

[Vanessa]

:worry:AHHHHH I thought this a few nights ago :skull:

[bots]

i would have looked like a complete tit in my little village ... i prefer to say i'm grateful for the work they are doing

[Beso]

I didn't go outside. Don't think anyone in our street did. :shrug: Does not mean I don't respect the NHS wholeheartedly.

You have a window though surely.

[Tom4784]

I'm not bothered about engaging in virtue signalling that ultimately doesn't help the NHS workers. It's self congratulatory and about making yourself feel better rather than showing support for the NHS and I can't abide it.

If you care about the NHS and you want to do something meaningful, there are options, this doesn't really achieve anything other than personal satisfaction.

[rusticgal]

I applauded them from my desk alongside my work colleagues. I applauded them for their bravery...for going in and doing the job they do everyday only this virus puts them at enormous risk day in and day out. Many of them can’t even return to their families because of what they do. Many of us are safely tucked away at home in isolation..many of us go to work in fear of contacting it from a work colleague despite safety procedures in place. But these people go into work and help those affected...how brave is that.
What harm was it to applaud these people from the safety of your home...seriously.

[LukeB]

:love: to NHS and supermarket workers

[Cherie]

I applauded them from my desk alongside my work colleagues. I applauded them for their bravery...for going in and doing the job they do everyday only this virus puts them at enormous risk day in and day out. Many of them can’t even return to their families because of what they do. Many of us are safely tucked away at home in isolation..many of us go to work in fear of contacting it from a work colleague despite safety procedures in place. But these people go into work and help those affected...how brave is that.
What harm was it to applaud these people from the safety of your home...seriously.

yes, and apart from anything else it was a nice community thing to do, have waved to neighbours I have never seen before in the last week

if you didn't want to go out and clap, no bother, but maybe just **** for a change, sick of the one up manship all the time

[Saph]

tired of this "where in this together" stuff when the majority of people ignored warnings for days/weeks anyway

[Babayaro.]

I'm still clapping. When do we stop?

[michael21]

I'm still clapping. When do we stop?

Tomorrow at 8pm

[user104658]

As I said in that update thread before getting spanked by Cherie;

Every NHS worker I've seen comment on this (and my wife knows a LOT of nurses):

"We don't want you to clap out of your door, we want better pay and working conditions when this is all over.

[michael21]

As I said in that update thread before getting spanked by Cherie;

Every NHS worker I've seen comment on this (and my wife knows a LOT of nurses):

"We don't want you to clap out of your door, we want better pay and working conditions when this is all over."

Sorry for commenting on the no-commenty thread but there's nowhere else for this one.

Who did there vote for

[Amy Jade]

I didn't but I was asleep. My mum and Nan did.

I understand why people didn't and why they would, but I can guarantee loads of the people who did it and claim to appreciate the NHS will be in asda tomorrow buying non essentials.

[Liam-]

While the sentiment is nice, it just feels a bit hollow to me, it won’t be long before they’re being blamed for a load of the deaths imo and a lot of the people doing it for Instagram will probably be cussing them out again because of long waiting times by October, it shouldn’t take a crisis for people to appreciate the people saving lives on a daily basis, the show is a little bit too late, personally

[Tony Montana]

I did clap.

[SherzyK]

I didn’t know this was happening :lea:

[Kazanne]

There was a nurse on LBC early hours of this morning she said she would rather people appreciate them by leaving food on the shelves for them and people staying in whenever possible not clapping on their doorstep,plus while on the subject why cant we have a fundraiser like say Comic Relief, but all those affected by this and the NHS ?we raise millions when these things take place,so wouldn't that be another thing to do ?

[Cherie]

i know what i am saying, and i saw it very clear too on the news, and most of those people stood quite close to each other (against the whole social distancing rule, but they get away with it because all these ''perfect'' care workers deserve respect)


not all care workers are perfect

Family groups Nicky or people living in the same house stood together, no one was hugging their neighbour :laugh:

[Nicky91]

Family groups Nicky or people living in the same house stood together, no one was hugging their neighbour :laugh:

ok a more lovelier gesture than this comes from my province anyway, Guus Meeuwis song Brabant is our sort of ''province anthem'' and on our local radio they play that song every saturday afternoon and they want everyone in the province to sing along, to show we are one in this crisis


another gesture from the football world, in Germany

Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Red Bull Leipzig all have put more than 20 million in a emergency fund to help out the minor smaller football teams who might be financially affected after this coronacrisis :love: also a lovely selfless gesture i guess

[Glenn.]

You don't have to stand outside and clap to respect what the NHS are doing for **** sake

Because leaving the house for irn bru or cheap cider is a better way to show respect?

[Crimson Dynamo]

tired of this "where in this together" stuff when the majority of people ignored warnings for days/weeks anyway

that is not true, dont believe random social media stuff

[Beso]

No claps tonight, I hope everyone's happy now.

[The Slim Reaper]

No claps tonight, I hope everyone's happy now.

Thanks for passing on the great news.

[Denver]

No claps tonight, I hope everyone's happy now.

I heard every thursday

[Babayaro.]

I heard every thursday

see you next thursday

[caprimint]

No claps tonight, I hope everyone's happy now.
Boris has to self isolate tonight :bawling:

[Denver]

see you next thursday

You wont as i cant have visitors during this tough period of time

[user104658]

No claps tonight, I hope everyone's happy now.Again, I'll be happy when the NHS is thanked with better funding and higher wages for its staff who we all "love so much" Parmy.

Not when people clap out their window to make themselves feel better.

[Beso]

Again, I'll be happy when the NHS is thanked with better funding and higher wages for its staff who we all "love so much" Parmy.

Not when people clap out their window to make themselves feel better.




Isn't that what the NHS is all about?..."making people feel better"


So if clapping makes us feel better then surely clappers saving the NHS money. ..misery guts costing money in the future.

[Marsh.]

Isn't that what the NHS is all about?..."making people feel better"


So if clapping makes us feel better then surely clappers saving the NHS money. ..misery guts costing money in the future.

Yes, clapping is a known cure for many ailments.

[Beso]

Yes, clapping is a known cure for many ailments.

You should be aware of the mental strain we are all feeling, last night's clapping was a great release for many thousand,(at minimum) of people.

[Beso]

I depresses me that people don't see the long term strain on people's mental state during this..so if clapping gives people a moral boost I'm all for it..wether it be for the NHS or juset the confined householder then so what...it can only be seen as a positive thing...unless your heads buried in the sand.

[Marsh.]

You should be aware of the mental strain we are all feeling, last night's clapping was a great release for many thousand,(at minimum) of people.

I don't need to be clapping on my doorstep to be aware of any mental health struggles thanks Parm.

[Marsh.]

I depresses me that people don't see the long term strain on people's mental state during this..so if clapping gives people a moral boost I'm all for it..wether it be for the NHS or juset the confined householder then so what...it can only be seen as a positive thing...unless your heads buried in the sand.

It depresses me when people use "clapping" as a means of popping themselves on a moral high ground and assuming things about other people and their mental health.

[Beso]

I don't need to be clapping on my doorstep to be aware of any mental health struggles thanks Parm.

Some do though...and I bet it helped them.

[Marsh.]

Some do though...and I bet it helped them.

Some do what?

Need to clap to become aware that other people have struggles? That is depressing.

[Beso]

It depresses me when people use "clapping" as a means of popping themselves on a moral high ground and assuming things about other people and their mental health.

Im judging on my own..not yours..my own and how it cheered me up during very stressful times.


Why would I judge others??

[Twosugars]

Isn't that what the NHS is all about?..."making people feel better"


So if clapping makes us feel better then surely clappers saving the NHS money. ..misery guts costing money in the future.

Yeah. Forget decent wages and right equipment, misery guts. Clapping should make nhs workers happy.

[user104658]

Im judging on my own..not yours..my own and how it cheered me up during very stressful times.


Why would I judge others??So long as you're admitting that it was about giving yourself an outlet/release and not actually for the benefit of NHS workers, who are still being taken for granted and borderline abused up and down the country.

Tell you what's bad for mental health: community MH services being stripped down to the bare bones to provide more staffing in inpatient facilities in the name of battling Covid. Addicts being handed a week or more's worth of methodone to be taken unsupervised, without any contact from their MH team even by phone, who are likely to accidentally overdose and die right there in their living rooms. All of this being done because those services were already stretched to the limit by 10 years of deliberate NHS under-funding that the people clunking tupperware together on their balcony last night ****ing voted for.

Nah. Not sorry if those people are feeling guilty now that they've finally realised they'd be lost without health services. Not when I know they'll go right back to voting for more cuts as soon as this is over. **** them.

[Beso]

It made me feel good clapping thinking about our heroic NHS workers and seeing everyone else doing the same made me feel a bit safer inside.

Take your political rant into the main thread please toy soldier..thisis not the place for it, this is general chat.

[user104658]

It made me feel good clapping thinking about our heroic NHS workers and seeing everyone else doing the same made me feel a bit safer inside.

Good for you Parmy. I can see you really care about them as individuals and people with real lives, and not just cannon fodder to man the walls so that you can sleep more soundly.

[Beso]

Some do what?

Need to clap to become aware that other people have struggles? That is depressing.

No...some clap because they are struggling already..they clap because it makes them feel better..

So if they are allowed to clap it may be less of a strain on the NHS in the aftermath..but no..seemingly it's not a good idea as it makes people look like hypocrites to some, rather than the people letting out stress and anxiety that they actually are.
:shrug:

[Beso]

Good for you Parmy. I can see you really care about them as individuals and people with real lives, and not just cannon fodder to man the walls so that you can sleep more soundly.

You don't, nor will ever know my respect for our NHS and especially it's front line ambulance service so stop getting so personal...

[Beso]

Remember that thread you made asking people to pm you something about themselves toy soldier, and the only person that responded was me..


Try responding back and asking more if you ever make a thread like that again, you may then be able to try and judge people like you think you can..

Most loved....yeah..maybe at one point..

[user104658]

I'm not judging you specifically Parm, you didn't come up with the clapping as an idea. It just makes me very angry considering what has been done to our frontline healthcare workers in recent years... the whole situation at the moment - everyone suddenly realising how important this service is only NOW - is a slap in the face for the people in it.

Here's what I wish people would do instead of clapping at their door.

I wish people would quietly go to bed tonight, lie there for a little while, and really think about what healthcare workers and those close to them are going through. Don't think of them as stoic heroes striding into battle - think of them as people with families and lives of their own who are scared, confused, underpaid and completely unprepared for this because of years & years of neglect, underappreciation and being taken for granted... yet they're there doing the job anyway. Really give that some thought. It's not going to feel good, it's not going to make you feel safe, but it is far more respectful of those people.

And what I really wish is that when people do that, and really think and feel for those people, they then remember that night lying quietly thinking about this the next time they're in a voting booth.

People don't want to get political at the moment and that's fine. I just hope to god people at least remember it when things do get political again.

[Marsh.]

Im judging on my own..not yours..my own and how it cheered me up during very stressful times.


Why would I judge others??

You tell me.

I depresses me that people don't see the long term strain on people's mental state during this..so if clapping gives people a moral boost I'm all for it..wether it be for the NHS or juset the confined householder then so what...it can only be seen as a positive thing...unless your heads buried in the sand.

[GoldHeart]

I heard it outside thinking there was a party going on :skull:

I hope everyone was stood at least 2m away from each other :idc:

I bet some were silly and stood too close :rolleyes:

[Cherie]

I bet some were silly and stood too close :rolleyes:

why would they do that, people stood outside their own house with their own family, there was no mingling :facepalm:

[rusticgal]

It’s just a symbolic gesture ffs....it was meant to show thanks and respect. We all know that the NHS need support and deserve more pay etc but this was just in the moment...a time when we are all having to deal with something very serious and very surreal. Why people are making something more of it beats me..

[Beso]

I'm not judging you specifically Parm, you didn't come up with the clapping as an idea. It just makes me very angry considering what has been done to our frontline healthcare workers in recent years... the whole situation at the moment - everyone suddenly realising how important this service is only NOW - is a slap in the face for the people in it.

Here's what I wish people would do instead of clapping at their door.

I wish people would quietly go to bed tonight, lie there for a little while, and really think about what healthcare workers and those close to them are going through. Don't think of them as stoic heroes striding into battle - think of them as people with families and lives of their own who are scared, confused, underpaid and completely unprepared for this because of years & years of neglect, underappreciation and being taken for granted... yet they're there doing the job anyway. Really give that some thought. It's not going to feel good, it's not going to make you feel safe, but it is far more respectful of those people.

And what I really wish is that when people do that, and really think and feel for those people, they then remember that night lying quietly thinking about this the next time they're in a voting booth.

People don't want to get political at the moment and that's fine. I just hope to god people at least remember it when things do get political again.

There is no year that has passed in which the NHS would have been prepared for this. .not one.

I appreciate your points though and understand your frustration.

I have been thinking a lot about those people though, and the supermarket workers, I have almost welled up in front of them thankning them as in pack my 2 bag of goods..and that's the truth. .

So last nights release was a culmination of all those thoughts you think in your most lonely moments...so for me it was a great release to stand and appreciate them in a unique way. .imo.it will help them in the long run regarding people's mental state after this.

So I don't think it deserves the ridicule it gets.

But I do understand your view completely, I just think it's slightly biased because many many people showing respect or letting out stress last night would not have been tory voters..my mum's street in scotland had someone playing bagpipes. ..and the snp ain't doing so well with the healthcare up there...but you don't here people moaning about doing it..nor others doing it.

[Beso]

And it will have taught many many thousands of children a very valuable lesson for the future ...

[thesheriff443]

Forget political views,

A footballer can earn in a week what a 100 nurses earn in a month.

We have created a world in which kicking a ball is of more value to the world than saving life’s.

The world is a very messed up place and it’s of our own making.

[Marsh.]

Forget political views,

A footballer can earn in a week what a 100 nurses earn in a month.

We have created a world in which kicking a ball is of more value to the world than saving life’s.

The world is a very messed up place and it’s of our own making.

You can't really "forget political views" when politics is the exact reason the NHS is in the state it is in.

[thesheriff443]

You can't really "forget political views" when politics is the exact reason the NHS is in the state it is in.

Has there only ever been one party in power.

Why didn’t people vote for Corbyn and all the pledges he made to hand out money like it was going out of fashion?, because people didn’t believe in him.

The whole world needs change the way it thinks, this virus should be the turning point for the human race.

[Marsh.]

Has there only ever been one party in power.


Nobody's said this but when people are discussing the state of our NHS it is going to be a heavily political discussion because it is steeped in it.

So asking to leave political views out of it doesn't make sense. :shrug:

People can change the way they think, doesn't really change facts though.

[Beso]

Forget political views,

A footballer can earn in a week what a 100 nurses earn in a month.

We have created a world in which kicking a ball is of more value to the world than saving life’s.

The world is a very messed up place and it’s of our own making.


Some say this is why this is happening, to change social order or something..

[GoldHeart]

Instead of clapping why doesn't the government find more ways to help the NHS especially now when they're struggling.

[Beso]

I'm sure there are a good few reasons atm.

[GoldHeart]

I understand the gesture to show appreciation , but i just wish more was done to help the NHS and the workers :shrug:

[Beso]

I understand the gesture to show appreciation , but i just wish more was done to help the NHS and the workers :shrug:

I agree, because I think you mean at this present moment..

But what can we do?...sit at home and let them get on with it.??.pretending it's not happening.!!.
Maybe all go out and help all at once?...

or look out our windows and let them know we are with them in thier time of need..not ours!


When you look at it like that it actually has nothing to do with us, it's them...the people that chose that profession and thier determination to carry on..


Our modern day soldiers, in a very very serious modern war...people didn't deny others apprecitation in the past as the soldiers were sent of to die, so why should the event last night..??


I just wish I could do more myself, but I can't cause we can't....I nor anyone else should be held reposnible for that.

[user104658]

I understand the gesture to show appreciation , but i just wish more was done to help the NHS and the workers :shrug:That's my main issue with it, I think it's mostly empty praise, I just don't believe that when all of this is finally over people will be insisting on the NHS being better funded and better run and medical staff being given the respect that they have ALWAYS deserved - not just now that something big is happening. I think people will quickly forget that they were clapping in the street and will be happy for NHS staff to continue to be under-paid and taken for granted.

I would be very, very happy to be proven wrong. I would be ecstatic if this was some sort of turning point for healthcare across the whole world. But I just don't see it... And then in a few decades when the next new viral pandemic comes along (because this won't be the last), people will somehow still be shocked at how ill-prepared we were, and will be clapping in their doorways again for their new-found heroes.

[Beso]

That's my main issue with it, I think it's mostly empty praise, I just don't believe that when all of this is finally over people will be insisting on the NHS being better funded and better run and medical staff being given the respect that they have ALWAYS deserved - not just now that something big is happening. I think people will quickly forget that they were clapping in the street and will be happy for NHS staff to continue to be under-paid and taken for granted.

I would be very, very happy to be proven wrong. I would be ecstatic if this was some sort of turning point for healthcare across the whole world. But I just don't see it... And then in a few decades when the next new viral pandemic comes along (because this won't be the last), people will somehow still be shocked at how ill-prepared we were, and will be clapping in their doorways again for their new-found heroes.



You are talking like the football will be back on by October, get a grip..nobody is going to forget this..not for many many many years.

[GoldHeart]

That's my main issue with it, I think it's mostly empty praise, I just don't believe that when all of this is finally over people will be insisting on the NHS being better funded and better run and medical staff being given the respect that they have ALWAYS deserved - not just now that something big is happening. I think people will quickly forget that they were clapping in the street and will be happy for NHS staff to continue to be under-paid and taken for granted.

I would be very, very happy to be proven wrong. I would be ecstatic if this was some sort of turning point for healthcare across the whole world. But I just don't see it... And then in a few decades when the next new viral pandemic comes along (because this won't be the last), people will somehow still be shocked at how ill-prepared we were, and will be clapping in their doorways again for their new-found heroes.

I just hope this is a lesson learnt, this definitely won't be the last virus pandemic but hopefully we'll be better prepared.

I wish it was a turning point aswell, I always worry about important services like the NHS as I would never want us to end up with a healthcare system like America.

Our NHS staff need more than cheers and clapping .

[Samm]

I voted labour last december, who actually had a plan to fund the NHS and it’s workforce, so my part was already done

[GoldHeart]

I voted labour last december, who actually had a plan to fund the NHS and it’s workforce, so my part was already done

So relateable me too

[Tom4784]

Sadly too many people only care about the NHS workers when it affords them a chance to make themselves look good. It's the same with the army, how many people only care about the troops when it comes to gathering likes on Facebook or for a sense of self satisfaction in November?

If you truly care about the NHS, get knowledgeable on the politics behind it and remember this ordeal when the time comes to vote. Vote for whoever has the best policy's for the NHS, clapping won't change the dire circumstances and the stress these people are under.