Clap for Captain Sir Tom!

[Workingman]

No chance! This has all got too maudlin, wokey and snowflakey - it is insincere.

How about we give him a dignified sending off? How about TV and radio stations having a minute's silence as his coffin enters the church? How about a minute's silence before big events such as football instead of 'taking the knee'? How about creating a Captain Sir Tom Moore award for those who, off their own backs, do real good in their communities.

Anything will do other than the clapping and banging of pots and pans by people who 99% of the time do not give a toss!

[Suff]

Anything will do other than the clapping and banging of pots and pans by people who 99% of the time do not give a toss!

Amen.

[debih]

I agree.

I also do keep mumbling to myself about him and his family jetting off to Barbados in December. Pandemic? Barbados? Essential journey?


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[Kaz]

I agree.

[Workingman]

True, but a little unfair. He went between lockdown two ending and lockdown three starting and there were no restrictions at the time - he also tested negative on his return. He caught Covid sometime in the last few weeks here in the UK, a long time after he got back home.

The trip was unwise, definitely, but please do not let it cloud all the good he did.

[miasmum]

Well said Frank.

He was in hospital being treated for pneumonia when he contracted covid. He died with it, not of it.

Going to Barbados was on his bucket list, his family probably thought if not now, then when? Not sure I'd wait for lockdown to ease at his age

[jenniren]

Well said WM and MM, I don't for one minute begrudge him his trip to Barbados, actually I was delighted for him. It was all done within the rules and as MM says he caught covid in hospital while being treated for pneumonia, absolutely nothing to do with his holiday.

[medsec222]

I am glad Captain Tom managed to have a holiday with his family - he certainly deserved it.

[cruiser2]

An "celebrity" has managed to fly to Australia allegedly to "work". Doesn't like being couped up in a 5 star hotel. Thinks the rules don't apply to her.
She is the one who had a birthday party and gave a very lame excuse when found out.
Captain Tom did far more during his fund raising than she ever will. He deserved his holiday

[TheOstrich]

Some folk were boasting on the local FB page that they'd been out and clapped, but certainly no-one in our street as far as I'm aware, which was the same as for the NHS.

Personally I think it's beyond cheesy, and actually slightly sinister as there does seem to be an element of Government / social media pressure behind it. Are we on a slippery slope; how long before we are all wheeled out of our homes, at 9 o'clock in the morning, all identically garbed, for a North Korean style mass marching celebration in recognition of pharmacists or something or other?

As for his Barbadian holiday, if that was within the "rules", then the decision was therefore entirely up to him and his family. Whether or not the "rules" are / were right, however, is a matter of personal opinion and the subject of an entirely different thread .....