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Let’s hear it for our NHS heroes 💚😷

dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
edited March 2020 in The potting shed
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  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    All the people down our end of the village were on the doorstep applauding. That’s to say, we both were! Maybe at the big house too but their drive is so long we couldn’t hear them. Mind you they’d be applauding themselves - a consultant nephrologist and a nurse.
    Rutland, England
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Don't forget the delivery people, the cleaners, the security people, the food producers, growers and processors, the warehouse staff and all the rest keeping us supplied with food and basic necessities.

    I suspect also that what all these people and the NHS staff would appreciate more is for everyone to observe the STAY AT HOME rules and stop risking infection spread and thus lives.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    edited March 2020
    My neighbours and I have all been out - suitably spread apart and done this. It was a lovely feel good moment. I live next door to a nurse who is on maternity leave having just had her first baby and I did warn her so that she wouldn't think I'd gone bonkers, with the social isolation situation, when I went out to clap and cheer and whistle.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2020
    Well, that was amazing ... loads and loads of folk out there clapping and cheering, whooping and hollering ... in this quiet little suburban village  ... Brilliant 👍

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    Yes lots of people clapping before eight as we went out, even saw a firework let off :smile:

    Very much the community spirit
  • FlyDragonFlyDragon Posts: 834
    BenCotto said:
    All the people down our end of the village were on the doorstep applauding. That’s to say, we both were! Maybe at the big house too but their drive is so long we couldn’t hear them. Mind you they’d be applauding themselves - a consultant nephrologist and a nurse.
    I’m a nurse, I was a bit worried people might think I was clapping for myself! 🤣
  • dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
    edited March 2020
    Ah, brilliant!
    NHS OH (radiographer) was walking through the garden gate, having just returned from a 12 hour shift, on the count of 8pm- all our terrace were out front, clapping and cheering directly at him, additionally to many peeps in flats and houses along the whole street (who don’t know him, but were taking part anyway).
    It really was special.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We’re not far from the big N&NUH and we have quite a few folk who work there living around us ... if they were applauding themselves and their colleagues while we applauded them I won’t argue with that 👍 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    edited March 2020
    I'm sure it was appreciated by the NHS workers, of whom I was one until I retired.  But I hope the govt is going to give them a bloody big pay rise this year.  Or at least a one-off bonus: £5,000 each tax-free wouldn't be too much.

    Our pastor, who's very tech-savvy, organised a live inter-active prayer meeting at 7.30 last night.  We have several doctors and nurses in our fellowship, and a midwife who's due to give birth next month.  At 8pm, one of the participants commented on the clapping she could hear from the street, so we all left our computers for half a minute to join in.
  • the tidy gardenerthe tidy gardener Posts: 591
    It was really special.in our village I didnt think anyone would be they did.and my hubby works for them so I clapped him too!
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