Queen? You Mean the Leader of the Lizard People?

Queen Elizabeth said her COVID-19 shot “didn’t hurt at all” as she encouraged those hesitant about vaccination to “think about other people rather than themselves.”

The head of state, who was inoculated in January, said after having the vaccine you felt “protected,” which she described as “important” during a video call with health leaders delivering the coronavirus vaccine across the four nations of the United Kingdom.

Asked for “feedback” about her vaccination experience, she chuckled as she told the officials, “It was quite harmless.”

During the conversation held Tuesday, the head of state likened the coronavirus to a “plague” that has swept across the globe, and when a health leader said he wanted to “bottle” the community unity he had encountered the queen suggested it was like the wartime spirit she experienced.

The queen spoke to the four senior responsible officers overseeing the delivery of the vaccine in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to hear about the collaborative effort which has passed the milestone of 18 million people vaccinated in the UK since the call was made.

She praised the vaccine rollout, describing its speed and the millions inoculated as “remarkable” and in a morale boost told the health leaders to “keep up the good work.”

Dr. Emily Lawson, who is leading the vaccine deployment program for the National Health Service in England, told the queen: “We hope everyone who is offered the vaccine will take it up, because it is … all of our best chances to protect both the people who take up the vaccine, their families and their communities.”

The monarch replied: “Once you’ve had the vaccine you have a feeling of, you know, you’re protected, which is I think very important.

“I think the other thing is, that it is obviously difficult for people if they’ve never had a vaccine…but they ought to think about other people rather than themselves.”

She added: “I think it is remarkable how quickly the whole thing has been done and so many people have had the vaccine already.”