> However, many people have also reported permanent hearing loss and tinnitus after contracting COVID

Thanks for pointing this out. It's definitely sad that people are having side effects to the vaccine, but most of the discussion about it seems to be implicitly asserting that the choice was either to get the vaccine, or go on without it while staying healthy indefinitely. Obviously that's not the case, the choice is to get the vaccine or eventually catch Covid unvaccinated and roll the dice with what might happen in that case, which by all indications is much more likely to lead to serious side effects than the vaccine.