do you clap for carers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVBg4Jg_390

Our official show-of-solidarity thing in Ireland was the post office giving every household two postcards that were free to send anywhere in Ireland, so you could send some love to someone you might be cut off from. Postal workers were also going to check in on people they knew we're living alone, and would bring them shopping or something if they needed it. Everyone thought this was a lovely idea, until someone in the postal service pointed out that the postal workers were not being paid any extra for this and would be putting themselves and their families at extra risk. I felt too guilty to use the free cards, and our house only got one.
The clapping is officially a thing here too, as far as I know, but our estate doesn't seem to do it. Next door tried the first night, but nobody else joined in, so they stopped.
A fair few houses have rainbows in their windows, though, which is nice.

Last night we had clapping, then some fire trucks showed up (by coincidence I think) and started honking, then a guy played Taps on the trumpet. Couple days ago there was a dude playing a drum kit on his balcony.

had to make this pic.twitter.com/NKJTqsf6y4

— Chad Loder (@chadloder) April 19, 2020

no. maybe if I lived in a super dense area and near a hospital like downtown manhattan

i'd rather give em PPE and money (if I had any)

DC doesn’t do this thank god

The PPE shortage is a bigger scandal even than the testing snafus.

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completely forgot today.

Bbc1 and ch5 had live coverage

Got to admit, I forget about this every week and I'm always surprised when it happens.

have all the usual fuckwits had a rona spreading party on some of the big city bridges again?

You might not like it but this is exactly what peak monarchy looks like: emerging from a tartan-wallpapered room through a Farrow and Ball duck egg door in linen and brogues straight after a gin-induced nap, utterly confused at the lives of your subjects pic.twitter.com/hqD5WQ9WFC

— Huw Lemmey (@huwlemmey) April 24, 2020

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have all the usual fuckwits had a rona spreading party on some of the big city bridges again?

The thing I don't understand about that London Bridge clip is that there's a shitload of police on there with them not doing anything to break it up. Maybe clapping trumps authoritarianism here.

They don't like wading in with the truncheons when they're on camera is probably the reason for that, it's ingrained behaviour

OK yeah these pics are baffling for that location at that time even if a lot of them may be spilling out from St Thomas nearby
https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/23/fury-social-distancing-ignored-westminster-bridge-12602395/

We continue to support the clap for carers and key workers. Again last night we saw a 'pickup' effect when you went back inside after proudly #clapping. The pick up wasn't quite as big as last week. Check out why in the image below pic.twitter.com/0Y4uMbayZB

— National Grid ESO (@ng_eso) April 24, 2020

I have never in my life seen people clap the way Charles & Camilla clap. It seems so odd, given the amount of applause they must have seen in their lives, that they haven't learned how to do it

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/tired-mum-named-shamed-facebook-18143150

yesss that is the content I crave

tired: clapping
wired: chanting

ooh bonus story linked there, Derek Draper might die

Derek is actually a shortened version of Diederic.. Just saying!

i guess because i haven't heard "clap for carers" out loud before, i canNOT stop saying "clap for careers" itt. i know i already made that joke but it's killing me!

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nice

hope these results mean that those here are just uncomfortable with public displays like this (I am), because I can’t see laughing at others’ appreciation for health care workers, that’s just bleak

I think you'll need to read the thread to understand the result.

I did read the thread, just don’t understand you people from the UK

Well, that's your problem, not ours.

not a problem, decided I don’t care

for me it just means I lose track of time and realize "oh, right, it's 7 pm"

(xp) That's fine, there's about a million American threads on here for you to participate in.

I don’t like it bc it’s noisy and noise is bad

xp sorry I was lashing out, I really do care about the UK posters here and what they are thinking

no 69

nice

it's a bit out of character for US healthcare not to find a way of billing people for clapping their employees yet, still time for that yet though!

I liked this from the Guardian - no stunning insights but it's good to have it said.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/21/nhs-doctor-enough-people-clapping

Even those who liked it at the beginning are becoming wary of the creeping clapping fascism, the competition to make the most obvious and noisiest display, the shaming of non-clappers.

otm times a thousand

Seems to be getting noisier every week where I am.

Didn’t hear shit yesterday

I played Rhapsody of Fire really loudly at 8pm last night so I didn't have to hear it, this may be my new normal

It may be the layout of my building but I haven't heard the clapping once. Tempted to go for a run and time the end of it with the applause.

I could imagine seeing something hilarious in this bizarre crypto-fascist banging if I was tripping on acid and observing it.

I haven't done. I think some people around here did.
Seemed to smack way too much of uniformity and taht whole Stepford wives thing to me.
Also didn't really help the carers. Energy might have been better directed elsewhere·
THough on th eother hand if it hadn't started to seem mandatory it presumably did help the community spirit a bit. But not sure how taht held out.
Way too much focus on punishing those who don't comply etc.
Would hope something like that's main growth was organic not coercive.

I've completely forgotten about this. It seems most people on my block have as well.

still happening on at least one birmingham middle class road, yesterday we discussed that guardian article while eating the neighbour's homemade vol-au-vents.

lmao