Clap for carers

Muddyroads

Member
NFFN Member
Location
Exeter, Devon
It’s clear that some staff aren’t getting enough of the right quality of kit, which needs sorting very quickly. This is quite different to your statement that “the NHS has very little or any PPE at this time”, and makes it all the more important that we should appreciate the staff working in these conditions.
 

stewart

Member
Horticulture
Location
Bay of Plenty NZ
Have I read this correctly, If there is no PPE for the carers they get the clap?

They are doing a fantastic job in very trying circumstances, once this is all over I hope they still get the appreciation they deserve.
 

JP1

Member
Livestock Farmer
It's tonight don't forget

Plenty of TFFers and their partners on the front line right now




Neill Acheson

24 mins ·



Nice message of support for our wonderful NHS from a farmer between Moneymore & Tobermore

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PC nonsense.

They are paid to do the job, if they don't like it they should quit!

And yes there is a lot of hardworking staff in the NHS but also just as many that are bone idle and lazy!

If we don't get the economy moving again soon there wont be any NHS by this time next year anyway!
Think you should leave the forum for a while
 

Exfarmer

Member
Location
Bury St Edmunds
Actually GUTH makes some very valid points, I disagree with most of them, but anyone who thinks the NHS is perfect lives in cloud cuckoo land. I have seen the NHS at its best and worse. certainly those on the pit face , coming out of retirement knowing they are at extreme risk should be applauded. But in this mix of heroes, honest hard grafters are a bunch of tineservers, who are determined that what they say , is correct no matter what evidence is presented.
The wearing of masks would massively reduce cross infection, but nobody in authority dare admit that all reserve stocks were incinerated years ago as being of no use as they had passed their selk by date
 

caveman

Member
Location
East Sussex.
Local lad last week.

Sids lyrics.

When we are ill your there to help us.
When health is low and all is wrong.
You give us hope and consolation.
You give us strength to carry on.
And your always there. To lend a hand.
In everything we do.
That's the wonder, the wonder of you.

And when you smile the world is brighter.
You touch our hands when we're not well.
Your care for us is worth a fortune.
Your love for us it overwhelms.
And we'll keep in mind, the reason why,
You help us as you do.
That's the wonder, the wonder of you.

Sid Hayden.
 
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Zippy768

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Dorset/Wilts
Was shocked to see that footage. Makes an absolute mockery of the whole thing. Nobody seemingly undertaking basic "Social
Distancing" , and amount of police parked up on the bridge was an embarrassment in itself.
I get the sentiment of the clap, but it has now - very quickly - become an event in itself. Each week will be tried to be bettered, someone here set off fireworks!

I'm sure it's some kind of Oxymoron
 

Grandad Pig

Member
Location
Essex
To be frank I find the whole “clapping” thing somehow embarrassing. The recipients are at work or asleep and will not get to see much of it. The sentiment I get, but the real issue is funding, over the last ten years at least. I am recovering from C19 and bilateral pneumonia, spent a week in ICU and, being an asthmatic, count myself lucky to be here. The nurses were amazing, three nights I lay there and listened as people died around me, nurses crying, it was more like a field hospital in ww2 than a modern, well funded national health service. Clapping will achieve nothing I am afraid. Those in power must realise how we feel about the NHS and fund, manage and staff it properly.
 

stewart

Member
Horticulture
Location
Bay of Plenty NZ
PC nonsense.

They are paid to do the job, if they don't like it they should quit!

And yes there is a lot of hardworking staff in the NHS but also just as many that are bone idle and lazy!

If we don't get the economy moving again soon there wont be any NHS by this time next year anyway!

You couldn't pay me enough to do the job that many do in the NHS.

I do agree that if they don't like the job they should quit, that is the same for any line of work, including farming and there are plenty of bone idle lazy bast@rds in agriculture.
 

Hfd Cattle

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Hereford
I don't understand the Tory knocking ......Boris promised to recruit thousands more nurses and that's exactly what has happened .

On another more serious note .... a couple of friends 'in the trade '. One a Dr and the other an anaethatist both say they find the clapping a bit embarrassing and they think it's more of an emotional 'kick' for the ones doing it . They also said it will now be one a 'competition' by certain individuals to get publicity on social media about various ways of saying
'Thankyou NHS'

All said .....I still admire the medical staff for what they are doing under seriously difficult circumstances,all the time knowing they are very much at risk !
 

Ashtree

Member
I don't understand the Tory knocking ......Boris promised to recruit thousands more nurses and that's exactly what has happened .

On another more serious note .... a couple of friends 'in the trade '. One a Dr and the other an anaethatist both say they find the clapping a bit embarrassing and they think it's more of an emotional 'kick' for the ones doing it . They also said it will now be one a 'competition' by certain individuals to get publicity on social media about various ways of saying
'Thankyou NHS'

All said .....I still admire the medical staff for what they are doing under seriously difficult circumstances,all the time knowing they are very much at risk !

When this is over, there needs to be a serious inquiry into the “inaction” of the government and the “scientific advice” received by them. Corbyn would have been on trial already if this had happened on his watch.


UK was too slow on coronavirus and 40,000 could die, professor says
https://reut.rs/2KgVvOY
 
To be frank I find the whole “clapping” thing somehow embarrassing. The recipients are at work or asleep and will not get to see much of it. The sentiment I get, but the real issue is funding, over the last ten years at least. I am recovering from C19 and bilateral pneumonia, spent a week in ICU and, being an asthmatic, count myself lucky to be here. The nurses were amazing, three nights I lay there and listened as people died around me, nurses crying, it was more like a field hospital in ww2 than a modern, well funded national health service. Clapping will achieve nothing I am afraid. Those in power must realise how we feel about the NHS and fund, manage and staff it properly.

Wow! Glad that you've recovered, what a horrible experience. (nice 65 by the way).
 

robs1

Member
When this is over, there needs to be a serious inquiry into the “inaction” of the government and the “scientific advice” received by them. Corbyn would have been on trial already if this had happened on his watch.


UK was too slow on coronavirus and 40,000 could die, professor says
https://reut.rs/2KgVvOY
Yes and prof lacy said hundreds of thousands would die from cjd.

over 600,000 die in the UK every year each and every one is a personal loss to their family plenty of figures being guessed at on how many will die from the economic fall out.

Yesterday we had the bbc and probably others running a fake news story about the availability of ppe, no wonder some of the more gullible in the world are worried when the media want to hype this outbreak into a doomsday scenario.
 

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