Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "Matt Hancock receives first Covid jab from Jonathan Van Tam" video.

Nothing in life is risk free. It's a question of understanding relative risks before making decisions. Practically every prescribed medicine will have a list of serious/rare side effects, but people still take them and you don't see headlines or videos made about the few people who experience the rare/serious side effects.
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*Definitely learn to spell definitely.
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@0808-w9q I did receive a proper education. It didn't stop me from 'making money' as you put it, but It also gave me some perspective on that and it taught me to understand the value and importance of science and the scientific methodology. We are already vaccinated.
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@0808-w9q Run out of arguments so attacking the messenger now? I've had my vaccine as you'd know if you read the comments and I have worked all my life and am happy.
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@AthelstanEngland Because that's not the way vaccines work. Do you not know that vaccines are preventatives not cures? Once you already have the disease it's too late to have a vaccine.
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@Gracie1344 I don't think so. Hardly anyone in comments sections seems to spell that word correctly and they don't check.
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You could see clearly that the needle went in. There was that little moment when the skin resists before it goes in.
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@Gracie1344 People are often so cynical now and yet, at the same time many are often willing to believe any barmy unsubstantiated conspiracy theory. They choose what to believe based on what they'd like to believe - consumer choice. Lol.
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@maxmorris4562 It's not a 99% survival rate, more like 98% but lets not split hairs.Some of the more recent variations, seen around the world, have higher death rates. The alternative to vaccinations is longer lockdowns, unless you want to end up like India with hospitals overwhelmed and having to reject patients. One of the reasons the death rate isn't higher is that hospitals are treating and saving lots of people. Survivors though can suffer from permanent damage or long term symptoms. This is known as 'Long Covid' and there are over 1 million of sufferers in the UK, so around 1 in 4 of cases. Vaccinations are new but build on the vaccination knowledge and science that already exists. Millions of people have been vaccinated now so the level of risk is known and it is far far less than the risk of Covid but if you are young you may decide just to risk Covid instead, and rely on your immune system. The rise in world population to 7 billion is very recent in historical terms. It was only about 2.7 billion when I was born. The reason that life expectancy has increased so much is because of sanitation, better nutrition, and health services (including the availability of vaccines).
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@maxmorris4562 It's a small risk. I've had both doses of the AZ vaccine as my risk from Covid would be much higher than my risk from the vaccine.
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Probably Van Tam doesn't normally give vaccinations. He was just slow to pull the needle out.
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@jasonwoods3711 It's a pretty simple procedure and Tam must have learned it sometime in his career. Maybe he's just lingering in there for the sake of a good camera shot.
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@jasonwoods3711 Vaccination in the UK is being done according to a priority of age ranges. Hancock's age range is now due to receive vaccines. If he'd done it previously people would have shouted 'Why is he getting priority? He's exerting privilege'. (I can't believe I'm defending this awful man against conspiracy theorists but not everything is a conspiracy, you know).
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@jasonwoods3711 True. It's good to have a healthy scepticism and to research on independent fact sites. My assumption was based on the fact that so many sceptics seem to get their information from conspiracy sites. Sorry if I misjudged you.
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@jasonwoods3711 Forgive a correction. It's accepted not excepted. Excepted is used when you exclude something from whatever it is you are referring to.
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@jasonwoods3711 You're right on both counts but 'excepted' is similar in meaning to 'excluded'. People also get confused between the words affect and effect. The way I remember the difference is that the 'a' and the 'e' at the beginning relate to the Latin where 'a' means to or towards, and 'e' means from or away from.
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@jasonwoods3711 Very well done, except you need a capital letter at the start of the sentence and for the word 'I' and you don't need an apostrophe in the word 'its'.
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@michael dent I never said they did. Don't attribute that falsehood to me.
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@AthelstanEngland I'm not arguing with your point. Younger people are encouraged to get vaccinated purely because it's now known that vaccination makes the virus less transmissable, but other than that there's less of a case for it. I guess Hancock is just trying to encourage uptake and at the same time addressing the criticism that if it's advisable for people in his age group, he should be having it also.
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