The frequency of the reaction mentioned in this article is around 2 in 100,000 people.
The frequency of death from covid is somewhere in the range of 1000-2000 in 100,000 people.
I'll take the vaccine odds.
> with fairly marginal protection benefits
Your source says nothing about protection benefits being marginal.
In fact, one of the author's of this research said: "What the results don’t do, she stressed, is change the fact that the data strongly support getting vaccinated against COVID-19. “Clearly, developing postvaccine myocarditis is much more rare than developing any of the complications of infection with SARS-CoV-2,” she noted." https://www.tctmd.com/news/free-spike-protein-mrna-covid-19-...
We have had that data for a while and simplifications serve no benefit. Its not early 2020 anymore, as always, as we get more accurate data, we get to adapt some strategies based on that.
edit: Not to mention the difference in strains (omicron vs delta) as well as the confidence into the different risks (under counting (detection problem) vs over counting(hospitalized/dying from vs with covid)