# Is anywhere in the world still doing the 7pm pots & pans banging? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [July 12, 2020, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anywhere-in-the-world-still-doing-the-7pm-pots-pans-banging/915107 "2020-07-12T11:53:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anywhere-in-the-world-still-doing-the-7pm-pots-pans-banging/915107/1 "2020-07-12T11:53:08Z")
The “tribute to healthcare workers” thing. If so, where? If not, when did it stop in your area? ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anywhere-in-the-world-still-doing-the-7pm-pots-pans-banging/915107/2 "2020-07-12T12:15:21Z")
My area never did this, but we are suburban. I think it was an urban thing. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anywhere-in-the-world-still-doing-the-7pm-pots-pans-banging/915107/3 "2020-07-12T12:23:08Z")
My daughter tells me it’s still going on in Vancouver, BC but with a lot less participation, with the profound drop in the number of cases there. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anywhere-in-the-world-still-doing-the-7pm-pots-pans-banging/915107/4 "2020-07-12T13:49:24Z")
I never even heard of such a thing. Sheesh, making a racket and _waking up shift workers_ (which describes many health care workers - how do you think the E.R. is fully staffed around the clock?) seems like what the kids these days refer to as “a dick move.” ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anywhere-in-the-world-still-doing-the-7pm-pots-pans-banging/915107/5 "2020-07-12T15:14:51Z")
As a health care worker, I’d have appreciated something like that. And making 1-2 minutes of noise at 7 PM doesn’t seem too intrusive to me. the neighborhood is by a hospital, for Og’s sake, with ambulances wailing all night long ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anywhere-in-the-world-still-doing-the-7pm-pots-pans-banging/915107/6 "2020-07-12T21:21:40Z")
It continues here in Waikiki, every single night, but, from what I can tell, is not being done in very many areas of Honolulu and possibly not may other places in the state. As I’ve suspected from the get-go however, the ones here seem to be just a bunch of putzes who have no idea what it’s supposed to be about but rather just use the excuse to make some noise. That definitely describes my immediate neighbors. I decline to join in despite the fact that I am working in a major hospital right now. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anywhere-in-the-world-still-doing-the-7pm-pots-pans-banging/915107/7 "2020-07-15T11:28:12Z")
We in the UK stopped about 3 weeks ago, that was a sort of collective consensus (I think it was even announced somewhere that a certain date would be the last). We all had a collective sigh of relief - it started out well intentioned, but became a little tedious. For us it was doorstep clapping at 8pm on Thursdays. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anywhere-in-the-world-still-doing-the-7pm-pots-pans-banging/915107/8 "2020-07-16T10:55:51Z")
No “pots and pans”. In NY/NJ it was mostly hooting and hollering and beeping horns and sirens at 7pm. I actually haven’t noticed it lately and can’t recall when it stopped. Probably sometime after our curve flattened and the rest of the country went to shit.