Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

I work back office in the NHS at a London teaching hospital and am on a circulation list for the daily COVID SITREP so I stayed in my fucking house like I was asked to.

"#clapforourcarers" isn't exactly the most well thought out of hashtags

It's gone awry.

I'm right cynical about that type of thing

Me too.
It's nothing
You want to show appreciation of the NHS staff, then pay them good money, really good money
You can't feed yourself from hand calapping

also: go away you tedious windbag ^^

It's not true then?

You live in san Francisco? So few public toilets that anyone who lives out just shits in bags where possible, then left out in the sun until collected. Those bin persons are not paid enough

that comment was directed at all too predictable forum anointed sanctimonious wetlip @William. - not you sirrah.

i need to learn to use the reply button bettererer.

Spent half the day printing stay away you are going to die very shortly banners for our local nhs so hearing the local applause was quite humbling . I don't think people have grasped the severity of the situation . They will by next weekend . When bojo first said on monday some of you may lose loved ones he wasnt joking.

My sister who’s a nurse in Manchester had no idea about the clapping thing and when suddenly fireworks started going off and people were cheering and clapping in her neighbourhood she said she was genuinely terrified.

What street are you on? My wife had the pot and pan out. Or maybe it’s a Leyton-wide thing :)

Are you... are you the coronavirus..?

Pots and pans were out in SW15 too, it's a very Latin American form of protest but it's caught on in lots of countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacerolazo

My sister who’s a nurse in Manchester had no idea about the clapping thing and when suddenly fireworks started going off and people were cheering and clapping in her neighbourhood she said she was genuinely terrified.

Ha, I was actually just thinking about this. Two of my sisters are nurses. One of them in particular would laugh at me if I hung out a window clapping for her.

But keep on rocking to all those who do.

Do you think it made people feel better about sitting on their year's supply of toilet roll while nurses can't buy fruit or veg?

From the many many tweets I've seen in response, it made alot of NHS staff feel better. Who shat in your cornflakes? Stay well buddy.

put your money where your mouth is.

https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/thankyouappeal

all hat and no cattle ice bucket challenge twat.

All my pals who work in the NHS were appreciative of it.

Reminded of when I was in buenos aires
in about 2002 and people had lost everything banging pans on the boarded up doors and windows of the banks..
Wonder if we’ll see that in the UK in the next 12 months?

first tax rises of the johnson post virus world announced by the chancellor
look out self employed people, they're coming for you first

All those returns bumping up tax deductible expenses and one man limited companies paying themselves a nominal wage and a big dividend, couldn’t help thinking the chickens have come home to roost

Ffs. Didn’t need to read that.

Back to being scared.

When tweets, profile picture frames and Instagram stories are one of the most common forms of "showing appreciation" I think leaning out a window and doing something real shouldn't be sneered at.

Even if nurses laugh, the world is pretty fucked atm and any form of common positivity and community should be clung on to.

Yeah. Not the most fun reading.

I don't think people have grasped the severity of the situation . They will by next weekend . When bojo first said on monday some of you may lose loved ones he wasnt joking.

That line won't age well and shouldn't have been uttered in the first place.

Unlike fake 'cures' and many other things that will have a negative and potentially deadly impact, I don't really see the downside to showing unity and solidarity. Many people cannot afford to donate money and many who clapped already do. They are not in a position to pay NHS staff more, but they can show support, from their own homes, which is also a way they can help.

If the side affect is that some people feel smug when the shouldn't then I don't really care, it's bigger than that. They wouldn't have changed their whole outlook without a round of applause.

I was made starkly aware of the severity when I learned about just how many categories of patient would not be ventilated.

All my pals who work in the NHS were appreciative of it.

So was my brother, who also works in the NHS. It doesn't make up for successive Tory NHS funding cuts, nor does it relieve the people who voted Tory in the past from their responsibility for that. If they voted Tory, and think that clapping makes it all OK and relieves from any responsibility for the state the NHS is in, then they're wrong. The clapping is a gesture, and nothing more.

But I don't think that means that they were wrong to clap. I can't see any reason why people shouldn't collectively show their appreciation for people doing a job which is uniquely difficult at the moment. It is only a gesture, but that doesn't mean it's worthless.

And yes, lots of people do shitty jobs and get little public appreciation for it. Maybe the answer to that is, rather than saying that the public shouldn't collectively express their gratitude for NHS workers facing an unprecedented situation, to have a little more public appreciation of all people doing shitty jobs.

Unity and solidarity vs aerosolised virus floating down your street from infected at number 52 hooting and hollering in the front garden.