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Right, I don't know of anybody who said "the vaccines are safe." If you go for a jab they ask you some questions to try to find out if you're somebody who might react badly, and they get you to stick around for a while afterwards so they stand a better chance of sorting it out if you go into allergic shock. It's no secret that they do these things, no secret as to why they do them. Some government-sponsored health professionals have slightly dishonestly said that the key issue is the choice between the risk of the vaccine and the risk of catching Covid-19 unvaccinated, and they've played down the particular risk of the AZ jab (blood clots in a tiny minority of people who get that one), but AFAIK they never categorically said the vaccines are safe.
Eric Clapton is just another person with all kinds of qualities that could be called good or flawed. There was a desk at school on which somebody had carved "Eric Clapton is God," but I don't think anybody actually thought he was, it was just a figurative way of expressing deep admiration for his guitar-playing skills, plus a minor tilt at the scripture lessons and hymns we were forced to take part in. It was a bit of fun, that's all. We probably had a bit of a positive bias about his personality, like most kids do about their favourite musicians, but I expect we all grew out of it, and it's not as if we could have done any harm with whatever false belief we had of him.
Did he influence anybody to do anything dangerous? I hope not. I wish people wouldn't let themselves be influenced by celebrities and politicians. I think it's healthy to listen to what people say about things you're undecided on, but who said it matters less than whether or not it makes sense to you and stands up to testing.