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pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat
14h
back during the beginning of the covid, was the whole "going to the window at a specific time to give an applause to the healthcare workers" also a thing in other countries?
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Kat S @KatS@chaosfem.tw
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@kitten It was in Amsterdam; can't speak for the rest of NL.
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rachael @rachaelspooky@cyberpunk.lol
14h
@kitten yep it happened in the US too
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anya @TheSunnyOne@treehouse.systems
14h
@kitten
It was a thing in the UK, but depended on where you were.

I hated it.
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anya @TheSunnyOne@treehouse.systems
14h
@kitten
To clarify why I hated it:

- My mum was a nurse during this time. She wanted PPE and support from the government, not people clapping. She watched a lot of people die during that time, the clapping did not help.

- No other key workers got any amount of respect (at least in the UK)

- People started using it to be obnoxiously loud, and also it was the only thing they did (ie, no masking, no social distancing, etc)
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Lis (≙) neocat_sign_cult @lis@lynxism.cat
14h
@kitten yes, I witnessed it in Belgium and it was definitely happening in Germany as well
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Eliza @eliza@chaosfem.tw
14h
@kitten

It was a thing in the UK, I don't remember it being a thing in CZ
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Persephone @mindpersephone@spookygirl.boo
14h
@eliza @kitten yeah was a thing in the uk for about five minutes. Think I heard it once or twice before people got bored.
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pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat
14h
@mindpersephone @eliza damn in Spain it lasted until May
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Rina Volpina 🦊🔞 @RinaVolpina@rubber.social
14h
@mindpersephone @eliza @kitten oh yeah but god forbid we actually paid the NHS staff more or got them proper PPE
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Mira Jin @mira@purrple.place
14h
@kitten In germany it was
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emla @emla@sk.girlthi.ng
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@kitten it was a thing in france
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Navi blobCat_real therian @navi@catcatnya.com
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@kitten Yes, the entire Western sphere immediately came up with a way to keep underpaying em
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lia, a bun type creature user_online @lianna@micro.webgarden.click
14h
@kitten Yeah.
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lia, a bun type creature user_online @lianna@micro.webgarden.click
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@kitten The public broadcasters had a livestream set up on all the TV channels and everything to document the "spectacle", but it was so ridiculously underwhelming. Nobody was at the windows. You could hear like two people clapping and otherwise total silence lol
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pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat
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@lianna oh here it was quite popular, you could hear it without trouble

but now that you mentioned it... I have no idea how did it look in the media. I didn't (and don't) watch TV, and I lived by myself
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Maxi 12x 💉 @frumble@chaos.social
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@kitten It was in Germany.
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