A mother in the UK was named and shamed on Facebook because she failed to participate in the weekly ‘clap for the NHS’. Every Tuesday at 8pm in the United Kingdom, people emerge from their homes to applaud health workers for their role in fighting coronavirus.
The event has become a massive nationwide spectacle, with people cheering, banging pots and pans and even setting off fireworks.
However, when one woman was unable to take part, she was accused of “showing the street up.”
The mother described how she had a difficult time getting her young son to sleep and fell asleep herself before 8pm.
“A post went on our community Facebook group actually naming and shaming me. I was mortified,” she wrote on Mumsnet.
“The post said everyone else turned out and I showed the street up and if I can’t spend a minute showing my appreciation I don’t deserve to use the NHS if I or my family get ill.”
The mother said she tried to ignore the post but that it had upset her.
One NHS worker responded to the post by defending the mother.
30 Comments A mother in the UK was named and shamed on Facebook because she failed to participate in the weekly ‘clap for the NHS’.
Every Tuesday at 8pm in the United Kingdom, people emerge from their homes to applaud health workers for their role in fighting coronavirus.
The event has become a massive nationwide spectacle, with people cheering, banging pots and pans and even setting off fireworks.
However, when one woman was unable to take part, she was accused of “showing the street up.”
The mother described how she had a difficult time getting her young son to sleep and fell asleep herself before 8pm.
“A post went on our community Facebook group actually naming and shaming me. I was mortified,” she wrote on Mumsnet.
“The post said everyone else turned out and I showed the street up and if I can’t spend a minute showing my appreciation I don’t deserve to use the NHS if I or my family get ill.”
The mother said she tried to ignore the post but that it had upset her.
One NHS worker responded to the post by defending the mother.
“Just reply ‘sorry, didn’t think I should leave my vomiting child to clap’ to shame them back. Awful. I’m NHS, no-one in my street claps, including me,” said the health worker.....
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Poster Comment:
Oh, no. No -- NO! It's just like in '1984' -- not clapping hard enuff can get you in deep yogurt. SICK PEOPLE........