@Lazierdays
Gosh some people are losing perspective somewhat here.
Pregnancy, the pill, long haul flights and Covid still all have a higher risk of clots than the AZ vaccine.
I think that part of the problem here is that the Government have successfully mounted a deliberate campaign of fear mongering for the last year, to the point where people are now almost determined to live in fear. Never before have people - almost an entire population - spent so much time thinking about the risks of dying! Provided you are actually alive, there is and always has been a risk of dying, and that risk does increase if you are older or have ill health (or, in fact, are poor, which is associated with premature death and poor health). Get in a car - you are taking a risk. Anyone care to say what your risk of dying from complications arising from flu are - they are higher than you think. There is literally nothing we do, no medication we take, no virus or bacteria that we come across, that is "safe". The risks are small, but they are there.
And without wishing to suggest that Covid should be dismissed as a risk, we have been subjected to a sustained and unprecedented psychological campaign of fear-mongering to coerce compliance with laws and guidance. We can argue all day if those laws / rules were all necessary or not, but that is not my point - my point is that the general population have never lived for such a long period of time having to face their own mortality. Not because they were mostly at risk at all, but because they have been frightened into thinking that way. And that is both unhealthy and habit forming; but without the information on which to properly assess risk in relation to heir own lives. I'm not suggesting people are stupid, simply that most people are accepting of what they are told, or lack the time or understanding to risk assess properly. And truthfully who does that - I am a driver but I would have to look up what the risk of dying in a crash is, because I don't know off the top of my head. Why would I - I am going to drive!
So what I think we are seeing now is the logical extension of the last year - genuine fear because people have become used to living with that fear, and yet have not properly been able to balance the facts. Because they have been subjected to what is a very disturbing experiment in the control of populations.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist by any means, but that doesn't mean that governments (and others) do not set out to deliberately persuade us of things that are, at best, misleading. Advertising has been doing it for decades, so why wouldn't governments use it to their advantage? And now is is backfiring because they want people to do something, but fear of death is stopping them, even though the risk is significantly lower than, not just of Covid, but thousands, perhaps millions of things they do all the time!