*applause*

Is it just me or is social media getting even worse over this pandemic? The amount of pithy, pointless posts that I am seeing is growing by the day. This is made worse by the fact that most of them involved tagging friends as well.

What albums influenced your taste in music?
Tag all your male friends for men's mental health because we need to be positive!
Tag all your female friends because we're all beautiful and we need to be positive!
Post a picture of you with your mum because we need to be positive!

You know what? Fuck off!

You want to be positive? Go and talk to someone (from at least 2 m away). Phone them, text them, video chat with them. Let them know you're thinking of them.

Ask your Key Worker friends what you can do to help, either professionally or personally. Here in the UK, I'm saddened by these weekly "clappings". You want to make a proper difference? Well, don't vote for political parties who want to privatise the NHS or have consistently voted not to give NHS workers, firemen etc. pay rises.

Yes, I'm looking at you, family across the road from me. Twats. I know who you voted for.

In America, the military are treated as heroes. In every day life, they're offered special treatment, discounts and all that kind of thing. We should be doing that for a group of people here in the UK, but not the military... we should be doing that for NHS staff, teachers, the emergency services... people who make a real difference in our lives every single day.

Things don't get solved by liking them or sharing them on Facebook. It's an extension of a phrase that I firmly believe in. I think it's attributed to Carl Gustav Jung: "You are what you do, not what you say you'll do" though I tend to paraphrase it as "It's not what you say that's important, it's what you do."