Society's move to cashless payments may have had an unintended positive side effect, surgeons say - fewer children needing operations or procedures to remove swallowed coins. The Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) experts looked back over hospital records in England since the Millennium. Procedures to remove foreign objects, including coins, from children's throats, airways and noses saw a "significant decline", of almost 700 cases by 2022.
I know, correlation is not causation, but...
But other factors - such as child-proof packaging and safety campaigns - probably also helped reduce cases, especially of objects stuck up the nose.
Yet curiously, these 'other factors' seem to not work with other items!
But concern is shifting towards other potentially dangerous shiny objects, such as button batteries and magnets, which are now sometimes swallowed by children.
So much for the saviour being technology.
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I oppose CBDCs.
So you want children to die!
Our esteemed leaders seem to enjoy cash free payments.
Both for themselves and for those who benefit them.
I am sure that there must still be those traditionalists among our elected and unelected leaders who still prefer to receive their bribes in good, old-fashioned cash.
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Good point!
Nigerian naira?
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