At this point, a practical course of action would be to ignore dialectical pro/con arguments from paid and unpaid influencers on both sides, along with conflicted institutions that even on their best day cannot keep up with the pace of modern society.

Can we create an open-source tool that supplements the much-criticized VAERS, which is at least government (i.e. taxpayer) funded, regulated and provides open data for developers? Use standard analytics to extract the most common side effects, then start collecting crowdsourced data not only on side effects, but most importantly, on TREATMENTS and MITIGATIONS for those, especially the mild-but-life-affecting ones that don't justify R&D with future billion-dollar revenue streams.