The Thursday 'Clap for Carers' in this time of the coronavirus is, unsurprisingly, controverial. While no-one would deny our collective gratitude to those in the health and care services and other key workers, it is being used by right-wing politicians and much of the media as a distraction. What the former in particular want to avoid is any discussion of how the UK health service has been cut over the last ten years, nor how every other aspect of the welfare state has been ideologically hollowed out.
This has been exemplified by the atrocious response of the UK Government in the areas of testing, contact tracing, and protective equipment for clinical staff, carers and other front-line workers (PPE).
So it has been suggested, as a minor act of defiance, that on Thursday we should all clap out the Morse code for P-P-E (dit-dah-dah-di dit-dah-dah-di dit).
So I mentioned this to Oldest, and he's produced this sketch - and he insists it be marked as
just a sketch:
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