so i've been seeing people stick coins
to their arm where they've just received
the coveted vaccine as if their arm is
now magnetized
i got the cova vaccine recently so i'm
gonna try it out
okay we need to talk about this so to be
honest i had just licked the coin
i loved lit coins it makes me feel alive
and stuck it to my arm like so but i
don't just want to shrug this completely
off as trickery i've had many friends
messaging me about how they hadn't
licked a coin and it still stuck to
their arm where they've recently got the
kova 19 vaccine and there's tons of
videos going around on the internet
right now of this supposed phenomenon
so i do want to look into this seriously
and try and figure out what exactly is
happening here and in order to
understand what's going on
we first have to talk about our fear of
needles one in four people in the uk
have icomophobia the fear of needles
and one in three people in america have
trypanophobia the fear of
injections and up to 70 of people have
general anxiety around these skinny
metal tubes it is normal to fear needles
the strange reason you fear them
actually has to do with your brain
working properly
your evolutionary history and the
neurophysiological circuitry of thine
brain the main reason you are likely at
least
a bit scared of needles is due to
evolution
if a prehistoric human had a metal
object pierce their skin
it likely meant injury infection or
death even just a thousand years ago to
see blood
leave your body for example when you get
a needle in your vein and then you get
blood work i cannot look at that but
obviously if i were to look at that i
would freak out because blood leaving
your body
usually means death so we've evolved to
see needles as a threat the fear
responses that we get around needles are
natural they're meant to protect
ourselves but ironically now
needles save our lives today small tiny
pieces of metal going into our skin
is what gives us a vaccine or is used to
take blood work for medical examinations
that help prolong our lives
but needle injections have only been
happening for a little over a hundred
years so
our brains haven't evolved to catch up
with the fact that needles help us
your brain fearing needles means it's
acting naturally we aren't
neurophysiologically programmed yet to
understand how these needles actually
save our lives
if a disease like covid19 hit humanity
before we had needles there'd be no
vaccines no blood work we'd potentially
lose control of the virus and here in
canada we wouldn't be on our way to
dystopian mass vaccination
clinics yes this is real life surveys
show we tend to totally forget
neutral needle experiences rarely share
positive
needle experiences and love to share bad
needle experiences
another study found we exaggerate our
bad needle experiences in many cases to
make the story more fun
but in some cases we take on other
people's bad needle stories
and mix them into our own narratives
we're constantly overestimating the
threat of needles but your brain
overestimating threats is also natural
if you're in the wild walking along and
there's a rustling over there in the
shrub and you go oh my god is that a
bear
and it's just the wind you're like okay
i look stupid but i'm still alive if
you're walking through the woods and
there's a rustling over there in the
shrub and you think oh it's just the
wind but it's actually a bear it comes
for you
get your jugular good dead that's not
actually what would happen with the beer
in the wild but tis a metaphor but again
ironically for needles this is not the
case if you
overestimate the threat of a needle for
example with a vaccine
and you don't get it then you are more
susceptible to the disease
like the increase in death from measles
we see in kids of populations who don't
get vaccinated also the media doesn't
help it tends to portray many plot lines
in movies with dirty needles
disease being spread through needles and
this does not help with our overall fear
but a meta-analysis found that there is
an 8.7
decrease in needle fear for every decade
of life lived
this is likely due to increased exposure
to needles another meta-analysis found
that the highest fear of needles is in
saudi arabia
with sweden being the least scared of
thine needles
but it is so important for us to talk
about this fear and conquer this fear
because then we get to get vaccinated
and experience the vaccination
high as seen here didn't hurt at all i
know
i feel amazing did you really cry yeah i
cried i cried
like i like kept crying people and
people kept coming up to me i'm like i'm
so happy so obviously they just wanted
to talk to me because they were like
yeah this is our job we like to feel
good because so many people weren't
happy
i'm like people are freaking out this is
so freaking cool
so it's understandable that people are
afraid of needles
and vaccines add on top of that our
constant sharing of these scary needles
stories
and now we have the sharing of this
magnetic arm
the kitty-like phenomenon and you can
see how it's a self-perpetuating problem
not to mention the intentional
misinformation or jokes or the spreading
of conspiracy theories if you want to
learn more about how conspiracy theories
work
from a neurological perspective we have
a video on that we'll link in the
description below but in short people
often fear things that they don't
understand and like the bear example
earlier
it might be better to make up some fake
explanation as to why this is happening
than to be oblivious about what's
actually going on so our needles and the
cover vaccines causing our arms to
become
magnetized so first of all there are no
magnetic metals
in the covet 19 vaccines some of the
vaccines contain
trace amounts of aluminum or as the
british say aluminium but it's similar
amounts to what's found in
water or food you are already eating but
also again aluminum is not magnetic
the vaccines also contain small amounts
of liquids in general between
one milliliter to as low as 0.3
milliliters
in volume even if you were being
injected with just a ferromagnetic
substance
that volume is so small that it wouldn't
make your arm magnetic but things like
coins and magnets can stick to your skin
for a variety of reasons
oils and moisture in the skin as well as
sweat can increase the stickiness of
your arm
surface tension and the size and the
weight of the object can play a role
some people debunking this will have it
stick with one certain coin but when
they get to a dime or a penny or a
loonie if you're in canada they fall
right off
you can also see this play out when
people just put coins on their foreheads
or put spoons on their nose
my guess for people who aren't outright
faking this online is that the reason
it's sticking has to do with the perfect
amount of moisture
oils and sweat mixed with the perfectly
sized and weighted objects
placed at a great angle on the arm and
of course it's the internet so many
people are just making these videos to
fake it for a tension
also known as attention now ten percent
of people experience
the most severe version of needle fear
which involves fainting this is a big
public health
issue that is being studied deeply right
now because of the need for a
vaccination against covid19 across the
world and these 10
of people tend to avoid vaccinations and
even medical help in general
because of their fear of fainting from
needles evolutionary biologists think
fainting evolved as a non-verbal signal
from intergroup aggression to show that
i'm not a threat look i just fainted to
say again fainting evolved as a way
of showing a threatener look i'm not a
threat you coming at me look i dang
passed out right here
when you faint from needles the needle
is the threatener
and due to the fear response that you
have from the needle the body spikes in
blood pressure
then decreases rapidly in blood pressure
causing a lack of oxygen to the brain
and boom
she's got a fainting spell studies have
found it's the lack of
consciousness that people fear the most
it's not necessarily the needle itself
it's what the needle is capable of doing
to them so i am definitely afraid of
needles i always have to scroll on
instagram when i'm getting blood work
done and just you know look at some
thirst traps because i need to get my
brain away from what is going on because
my body's just
acting naturally but of course these
vaccinations are so important
i have a pep in nine step from getting
my first cova 19 vaccine
so share this video with anyone who is
having apprehension or who is afraid of
needles because you know what
it is normal thank you so much for
watching and we will see you in a few
weeks for a new science video
am i doing this peace