The online influencer Nohun (real name Raurie Williams) has wrongly described the risks and benefits of the Covid-19 vaccine for children in an Instagram video that has been viewed more than 330,000 times. The video was posted on 7 September 2021, and begins with a screenshot of a Telegraph article which covers the debate about… Read More »
“Health and social care will devour 40pc of all public spending by next year.” Daily Telegraph, 8 September 2021. “As a result of the latest changes, health is likely to account for 44 per cent of all public spending by 2025, up from 27 per cent at the start of this century.” the i, 8… Read More »
“More than 60 frontline UK healthcare workers took their own life at the beginning of the pandemic.” The i, 9 September 2021. The i newspaper has reported new data claiming to show that 64 frontline healthcare workers died by suicide at the beginning of the pandemic. The data is sourced to the Laura Hyde Foundation,… Read More »
One story has dominated headlines this week—the government’s new plan for health and social care and how it plans to fund it by raising National Insurance. So we’ve taken a look at some of the key claims we’ve seen in Parliament and the press about the new proposals. The top 20% of households by income… Read More »
Here are 5 things you should know. 1. A crash at 30mph is not twice as bad as 15mph, it’s 4x as bad. Similarly, a crash at 60mph is 16x as bad. This is because kinetic energy is proportional to squared velocity. The dangers of speeding are worse than you might expect, and, on the…… Read More »
Here are this week’s shower thoughts. 1-5 Shower Thoughts 1. Wisdom teeth are not worthless, as they provide oral surgeons with a steady stream of income. 2. Old people are new to being old. We might see an old person and associate them with their age. But for them, the whole oldness thing is new,…… Read More »
Researchers asked four people to do random acts of kindness for others. Not only did it improve their own mood, but caused those strangers to be kinder to other people too. There is a ripple effect to kindness. The post Researchers asked four people to do random… appeared first on Crazy Facts. Source
