[loeg]

Cost and the statistical property that older people have fewer sexual partners on average. There's also a sort of fatalist assumption that you've already been maximally exposed. If the vaccine was zero cost, you'd give it to everyone.

[mancerayder]

How do you define cost here? The medical cost of the vaccine and nurse time? Or the risk to health? I'd pay for it out-of-pocket, even as an old. But I wouldn't know where.

[loeg]

The cost of the vaccine and nurse time, yes.

If you want to pay for it out of pocket, you totally can. Just ask your PCP.