Clap for Carers returns this week and will include 'heroes' Post Reply

[Community Editor]

Clap for Carers is set to return on Thursday night as the nation enters a third national lockdown.

Annemarie Plas, the woman behind the Clap for Our Carers initiative has confirmed it will return at 8pm this Thursday. Although rather than just focusing on carers the message will be widened to Clap for Heroes to acknowledge everyone who has played their part through the pandemic, not just health workers.

In March last year, people across the UK would stand on their doorsteps every Thursday evening to clap for carers. Boris Johnson joined people across the country in thanking frontline healthcare workers who were going above and beyond to help treat victims of the coronavirus pandemic. At the time a Downing Street spokesperson said: “Like millions of people across the country, the prime minister joined in the Clap for Carers this evening, to say thank you for the incredible efforts of the country's doctors, nurses and care workers."

Now Ms Plas has called for a return, she posted on social media hoping for it to “lift the spirit”. She said: “We are bringing back the 8pm applause, in our 3rd lockdown I hope it can lift the spirit, of all of us. “Carers teacher, home-schooling parents, those who shield and ALL who is pushing through this difficult time! Please join & share! #clapforheroes”

Organiser Ms Plas, from the Netherlands, was inspired by similar campaigns in her home country, France and Spain when she first started the campaign back in March.

[Familycompleted]

Do feel free to participate in this but I can tell you people in the NHS really would rather people just obey the rules and get vaccinated when offered. Stay at home, wash your hands, wear masks, don’t look for loopholes in the law and please let’s get through this faster by being good citizens. Claps aren’t making more hospital beds or keeping oxygen supplies sufficient in hospitals - claps won’t get teachers and nursery workers vaccinated but they will be faced with less risks if everyone actually follows public health guidelines....

[coldatchristmas]

Couldn't agree more Familycompleted. Not that I don't think the whole Clap for Carers wasn't a fab idea, it was but as this is now our third lockdown I think maybe more practical measures would be more welcome.