The U.S. Surgeon General has said that school closures and a lack of socialisation as a result of lockdown policy have exacerbated the country's youth mental health crisis.
A study conducted by Cardiff University shows that lockdown was damaging to the mental and physical health of young children, with respondents reporting an increase in 'emotional difficulties' and other problems.
The U.K. Government’s latest attempt to satiate Boris Johnson’s multiple, complex and apparently chronic penetrative insemination paraphilias will involve the private sector in bribing young people with discounted takeaway food and free taxi rides. Food delivery and taxi-hailing firms including Uber, Bolt, Deliveroo and Pizza Pilgrims have all been enrolled in this latest psychiatric intervention and are now offering incentives for young people to arouse the Prime Minister’s husband by receiving what he’s taken to referring to during Cabinet meetings as “the pharmaceutical boys’ ejaculate". "How many disease vectors have the pharmaceutical boys ejaculated into this week?" he'll ask excitedly, often several times a minute, the words oozing up and out of that capricious little slit in his head like smarmy treacle, mellifluous and full of privilege. As you might imagine, the BBC got themselves pretty hot and horny about this, the policy’s underlying mix of messianic, full-throttle welfarism and Old Testament-style retributive psychopathy touching a sweet spot for the munificent totalitarians over at New Broadcasting House. Not that they were able to get off as many superlatives as they'd have liked. True, manipulation of the young is as essential to the BBC as it is to every other elite western institution currently waging war on that dangerous, socially harmful pathogen known as "cognitive diversity" – sorry, I mean "Covid misinformation". But unlike, say, the Guardian, Independent SAGE ...
A quarter of young U.K. adults. still haven't been vaccinated against Covid despite the constant efforts to "coax and cajole" them into getting 'jabbed'. The figure rises to one third in 54 local English authorities.
More than 600,000 young adults picked up smoking during the first lockdown to help cope with the stress and boredom caused by restrictions, according to a new study that also found an increase in problem drinking.
In case offers of free burgers and cash prizes aren't enticing enough, a range of firms, including Asda and Deliveroo, have announced a range of incentives to get young Britons vaccinated against Covid.
by George Santayana Informed consent is one of the cornerstones of modern medicine and the foundation of the patient/doctor relationship. The principle of informed consent is a core part of the Nuremberg Code on human research ethics and states that consent for any medical treatment must come from the patient themselves who needs to understand both the benefits and risks. Likewise, the opposite, which we might call “informed refusal”, is just as important and a patient can refuse treatment or withdraw consent at any time. The “informed’ part of informed consent can occur in a number of ways such as provision of written materials (the piece of paper you throw away when you open a packet of headache tablets) or a discussion with your doctor. Regardless, the information given to a patient needs to be accurate, balanced and cover both the benefits and risks. Consent must also be given freely and without undue influence or coercion. Of course, a clinician can express their opinion and offer advice as to what course of action a patient might take, but ultimately the decision to proceed (swallow the pill, take the test, have the operation) resides with the patient. Informed consent places the individual patient at the heart of clinical practice and given that they are the person receiving the treatment and taking any associated risks that intrinsically feels like the right thing. And so it used to be for vaccinations, where it was up to the individual whether they wished to have a specific vaccination or not. Yes, there ...
Almost a third of English adults aged 18-30 have not had the first dose of a Covid vaccine, despite the constant efforts to "coax and cajole" them into getting 'jabbed'.
Covid vaccine hesitancy rates have fallen across most of the U.K., according to new research by the ONS. Hesitancy among Brits aged 18 to 21 dropped to five per cent just before 'Freedom Day'.
Most leading Russell Group universities will continue to hold lectures online when the university year starts this autumn, and students at some will be told they must still wear face masks and follow social distancing.
