Look, I'm not exactly sure what point you're making, because I don't disagree with the notion that the vaccine injury is an adverse event. I know. Of course it is.

What I'm saying is that VAERS ONLY takes data on adverse events.

An adverse event might be caused by a vaccine injury. Or a bad meal. Or cancer. Or a new medication. Or a grumpy mood. But as long as it happened after the vaccine was taken, VAERS will report that data.

Because VAERS reports only adverse events. It does not tell you which of those are vaccine injuries and which are due to other things. It does not tell you that ANY of those reports are vaccine injuries.

I'll just let VAERS itself explain. It has a "how to interpret this data" guide that I think is helpful to read.

When evaluating data from VAERS, it is important to note that for any reported event, no cause-and-effect relationship has been established. Reports of all possible associations between vaccines and adverse events (possible side effects) are filed in VAERS. Therefore, VAERS collects data on any adverse event following vaccination, be it coincidental or truly caused by a vaccine. The report of an adverse event to VAERS is not documentation that a vaccine caused the event.

https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/dataguide.html