XPost: uk.politics.misc   
   From: pamela.ukpm@gmail.com   
      
   On 13:20  4 Jul 2020, Keema's Nan said:   
   > On 4 Jul 2020, Dan S. MacAbre wrote (in article   
   > ):   
   >> Col wrote:   
   >> > On 04/07/2020 09:10, JNugent wrote:   
   >> > > On 03/07/2020 23:46, Dan S. MacAbre wrote:   
   >> > > >   
   >> > > >   
   >> > > > Fine words; but he was happy enough to clap for the NHS on   
   >> > > > Thurdays.   
   >> > >   
   >> > > "...things they *don't* want to do..."   
   >> > >   
   >> > > People doing what they DO want to do is another matter, surely?   
   >> >   
   >> > He also said he didn't believe in 'gestures'. Well wasn't the NHS   
   >> > clap just that?   
   >>   
   >> Certainly was, which was why I never did it. The neighbours still seem   
   >> happy to talk to me. But I'd guess that only about a third of them   
   >> actually bothered. I was once out working on the car when some of them   
   >> started doing it - it was a bit odd.   
   >   
   > Yes it was strange to me as well, mainly because I had no idea of the   
   > time.   
   >   
   > I was in the garden shed looking for an old shovel (that is my excuse)   
   > when I heard this strange sound coming from somewhere outside one   
   > Thursday evening. I just assumed it was a neighbour doing some weird   
   > gardening until I found the shovel and stepped outside. Then it dawned   
   > on me that it was clapping and banging of saucepans.   
   >   
   > I hadn't realised it was 8pm, not that it would have mattered because   
   > I am not going to be kow-towed by the virtue signalling snowflakes.   
      
   I'm not sure clapping for the NHS was virtue signalling as much as   
   encouragement for NHS staff to risk going to work on Covid wards and be   
   there to save them in their hour of need.  The gesture is borne out of   
   fear and self-interest.   
      
   Not that the NHS did particualrly well.  One cause of the UK's colossal   
   death rate was the NHS triaging away the Covid sick and discharging many   
   prematurely.   
      
   It was so bad that hospitals always had unused capacity while the sick   
   were dying in the community.  This is now triumphed as an achievement by a   
   master stroke of doublethink.   
      
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