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I thought I would do a follow-up post to provide some encouragement to those who have had difficulty obtaining a Covid19 vaccination.
Spouse FINALLY got first vaccination last Thursday & was scheduled for #2 at that time.
The problem where I live has been the slow, backward, idiot county government bureaucrats...too many bosses giving out wrong information & causing undue confusion & anxiety. In our situation, it would have been better to avoid local government & just let Wal-Mart, Rite-Aid & other national pharmacy chains take care of everything.
I thought I would do a follow-up post to provide some encouragement to those who have had difficulty obtaining a Covid19 vaccination.
Spouse FINALLY got first vaccination last Thursday & was scheduled for #2 at that time.
The problem where I live has been the slow, backward, idiot county government bureaucrats...too many bosses giving out wrong information & causing undue confusion & anxiety. In our situation, it would have been better to avoid local government & just let Wal-Mart, Rite-Aid & other national pharmacy chains take care of everything.
Yay!
OK so guess what happened to me, in NE Texas. I signed up to be contacted whenever I became eligible. Having a preexisting condition put me in Group 1B though I am only 59. So I was contacted via email and told to pick a date and time from numerous openings at a local convention center. I went and things went very smoothly. There were a few lines but they moved quickly. I was in and out - including my 15 minutes of post vaccine monitoring - within half an hour. I was happy with it.
At that time, some authority filled out a card for me with the date of the second vaccine (this date or LATER is what was specifically said to me), and they told me to go back online, register a particular number, and that would put me on the list to be contacted again for round 2. So I did all that.
This time there was no contact. No time slots given, no options. Just an announcement on their website and FB page that "anyone who received the first Pfizer shot between such and such dates can show up at the convention center for their second vaccine on such and such dates."
So I mean, I am going this weekend, but I don't expect the smooth operation of the first round. Ugh.
Would like to go on a retail therapy shopping trip somewhere.
West coast to see my sisters.
Get away on the coast of ME (I live in the NE).
I've been doing most everything else regularly since the pandemic began, but we don't have great shopping here, so I need to make it a destination trip.
Just got my second shot. Felt the injection site earlier than I did on the first. I started feeling tired about an hour later. probably going to bed early tonight.
LOL yeah, they haven't posted that. Freaking idiots!
Sounds like the same freaking idiots in western WA. Even though it’s scheduled, I’m holding my breath about vax #2. I could write a book about this experience, but it’s too Kafkaesque & would make me very anxious.
Sounds like the same freaking idiots in western WA. Even though it’s scheduled, I’m holding my breath about vax #2. I could write a book about this experience, but it’s too Kafkaesque & would make me very anxious.
Good luck to you!
good luck. if it is any consolation the experience is being felt across the country. it is all supply and demand. pretty soon and this will happen in months there will be too much vaccine here. It will actually be harder to find people to jab them. hang in there we are almost to the end of this period. By the way where are you going to travel first?
We will be staying home for the summer because we are going to continue our home projects but we are planning a November - February trip to S Korea to visit family. Maybe visit others in Laos.
Sounds like the same freaking idiots in western WA. Even though it’s scheduled, I’m holding my breath about vax #2. I could write a book about this experience, but it’s too Kafkaesque & would make me very anxious.
Good luck to you!
Thank you.
Finally, LAST NIGHT, I got an email "invitation" with time slots and days for tomorrow and the next day - Friday and Saturday. I chose Saturday early in the morning. I have cleared my schedule in case I feel a bit poorly.
I got some sort of vaguely snarky message on their social media page (where along with many other people, I had posted "HEY, WHAT TIME?" and that sort of thing). Someone from the entity said "Hey, we're not perfect." No, but honestly, just do whatever it was you did the first time - it worked. They're supposedly the professionals after all. Then they tried to blame the winter storm on their apparent inability to POST TIMES. I mean, they posted this long post about where and what vaccines would be available to who - but didn't post TIMES? Come on, man. I wasn't born yesterday.
I have mentioned on a couple of threads that the NY program has been miserable. Finally I got my first Pfizer shot yesterday and can think ahead to living without constant precautions. BTW, the NYS program still is very poor but finally there are enough vaccines available so pharmacies and other providers are making a difference. Two weeks again it was almost impossible to make an appointment. Now I have 2 or 3 choices where I could with some persistence arrange vaccination within a week or so.
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