I think the rational approach at the moment is to understand that vaccines are not going to eradicate covid anytime soon and that there are more drugs that can and should be part of the solution.
There's a huge amount of studies going on to check various medications, as there should be. However, that is NOT a reason to skip vaccines.
The mRNa vaccine technology looks to me relatively safe, more so than the old way of making vaccines. Vaccines have the potential to lead to unwanted responses in the immune system, like a flu vaccine might lead to narcolepsis because part of the flu virus may be structurally similar to a protein involved in human sleep regulation. Training the body against that part of the virus may simultaneously train your body to attack itself in such a way that you develop narcolepsis. Side effects like these are typically rare, but sometimes still expected.
This new generation of mRNA vaccines don't use real viruses, instead focusing on mRNA codes for the very specific part of the virus that we want to train the immune system against (spike protein). For that reason, I expect them to be safer than older vaccine technologies.
TLDR; get your vaccine and then hope we can also find other ways to combat covid.
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