Interesting stuff that VAERS search.
So out of 300,000 adverse reports on the Moderna shot, there are 4700 reports of tinnitus. It's one of the most common complaints at 1.5%. But 4700 out of 200 million doses isn't very many. We also do not know out of those 4700 how many resolved and how many did not. We also cannot be sure a reported incident was in fact caused by the vaccine. It is reasonable to conclude that there is some confirmation bias in this forum as well.
In short, I think tinnitus from the vaccine is likely very rare but certainly not zero.
Here in this forum, you would get the impression it is very common but I don't think that's the case. Rather, people come here to talk about it.
What you are of course missing and how everyone is missing the point, is that there is a highly likely co-relation of an immune reaction which BOTH the vaccine AND COVID-19 would create.
The cascade would be the same.
Not only that, but that data doesn't say jack shit of who was predisposed or currently had tinnitus or hearing loss.
Start using those numbers, and assume it's due to the immune cascade and I'd bet hard money that getting COVID-19 or the vaxx is probably closer to 100% of either having a chance of worsening your tinnitus.
If I'm taking those bets I'm using a safer vaxx (they are coming, aka Novavax) where the immune cascade may be lessened overall and more drawn out over time (similar to radiation poisoning, it isn't the dose that kills you, it's the flux), as well as being sure this vaxx is targeting the most likely mutations as well as current dominant strain (similar to the flu vaxx nowadays).
Taking the vaxx where I could get COVID-19 again anyways is a pointless risk, I've pointed this out to both my employer and doctor and they tend to agree with me.
I'm not premoting anti-vax standpoints. Simply anti-broad and untargeted vaxx standpoints.
The flu vaccine is updated frequently, this makes sense and is why I get the flu vaccine.
Getting a vaccine that will still allow me to be infected but "maybe" I won't die instead (I likely wasn't going to anyways) seems to introduce more risk than foresight. That should be the ultimate point of the vaccine, to inhibit and not allow the virus to cultivate any longer.
This vaccine has failed to do so by not keeping up with the honestly quite rare mutations that will occur with this virus. No longer having as large an effect to the virus because you have antibodies which are "close" isn't good enough to limit spread. Imagine any other vaccine where you'd be told, you'll still get it and it will replicate and you can still spread to others. What's the point of that?
I don't know why a delta / other potential strains version isn't available. Probably because it'd be a new "vaccine" and pfizer needs to sell it's current product.
Nobody was betting on mutations getting a foothold, and yet here we are. Lockdowns didn't amount too much. What's the point of putting a lid on a burning oil fire if you lift it, use an extinguisher, and then it starts burning again.
Just shrug and say life goes on and go to work?
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