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This is not a prisoner's dilemma. The expected payoff if you get vaccinated is still far higher than the cost, whatever the rest of the population does, so you can ignore the cost in your calculation. It's like if the situation for the prisoner was that if you stay silent you go free, but if you both stay silent you both go free and the rest of your gang gets a reduced sentence too. Why would you ever defect?


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