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We get that London is crowded but, like, how is it whenever we venture outside we& #39;re constantly looking over our shoulder, hyper-aware of where every other human being in sight is, but here we& #39;ve just got dozens of people having a fucking party?
If you want to support the NHS, consider not giving them hundreds of new patients. Christ almighty.
They& #39;ve already co-opted our rainbow symbol, and you can bet we& #39;ll get meaningless badges to wear eventually. You& #39;ve heard about people FB snitching on non-clappers. It& #39;s all so gross. https://twitter.com/LeoDaFinchy/status/1253666611850067968?s=19">https://twitter.com/LeoDaFinc...
If you want to do the clapping thing, have at it. Whatever. But they& #39;re not "heroes"; they& #39;re ordinary people with jobs who didn& #39;t sign up to be sacrificed on the altar of government incompetence. They want to help people, and that shouldn& #39;t require this level of risk.
They& #39;re not warriors going into battle. They& #39;re nurses and doctors and carers and healthcare assistants and cleaners and scientists and receptionists and physios and dietitians and...
Do you know what it takes to run a hospital? Do you know what you& #39;re asking of so many ordinary people with ordinary jobs? By employing this kind of language, you normalise the danger they& #39;re facing just to care for the sick.
Heroes suffer. Heroes do more than is asked of them. Heroes put others before themselves. Heroes die. We don& #39;t need heroes: we need a properly funded healthcare infrastructure that is prepared for predictable events like this.
We don& #39;t want a hospital run by beaten-up, battle-weary heroes who push their bodies and minds beyond rational limits to eke out one more minute of life or comfort for every single patient. We shouldn& #39;t *need* that!
We want a hospital where, even in a pandemic, people go to work for a shift in safety and then come home to relax and rest, returning for the next shift alert and motivated.
Heroic efforts are unsustainable. You can& #39;t rely on heroes. Heroes are born out of desperation.
If you call them heroes, you absolve yourself of the need to care about them, because a hero exists to serve others. Heroes are sacrificial. Heroes are beyond human, so don& #39;t need to be protected like humans. They can take inhuman suffering.
We don& #39;t need heroes. We need people being kind to each other.
