If you go into your preferences and put that in the location field, people will be able to see it if they click on your avatar. Very useful in threads like this, as well as in many others.
There’s a thread about it, currently in MPSIMS.
Well, this was my initial guess:
Just got my (first shot) appointment today - 6 Feb. So things look more or less on schedule.
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Thanks. I just did that. It was visible in the vB days and I assumed it carried over.
It’s still not visible in the same way, as in Discourse it’s necessary to click on the avatar to see it. But once one knows that trick it’s very useful.
Thanks! I often can’t remember, even when somebody’s said in a post somewhere what their location is; so it’s good to be able to be easily reminded when it’s relevant.
I was hoping to be vaccinated by now. Apparently I qualify, but Pennsylvania doesn’t have any vaccine for me. Thanks, Donold.
I am 73 on Long Island, New York. Right now it looks like May or June at the earliest.
Today at 8:30 am the health department of our county opened the phone lines to make appointments for the 300 vaccines that are available; only persons 65 and older are eligible at this time. There are 15,000 such residents in the county.
As might be expected, the phone lines were jammed. But Ms. Railer and I kept trying; after over a thousand redials between us, she was able to get through. Our appointment for vaccine #1 is next Thursday, February 4.
The twelfth of never.
My dad is 80 and got his first shot a week or so ago in Queens. I am guessing you will be up sooner than that.
Here’s the current local situation. Looks like my initial guess may not be too far off unless the supply really picks up (which it may).
And I got an email today from the suburban medical system where my GP has hospital admitting privileges that they are indeed notifying people via their patient portal when they have reached their place in line.
This is emblematic of what’s so very, very wrong about the system. It shouldn’t be some Darwinian test of who can hit Redial fastest and longest. Don’t get me wrong: I’m glad you and your wife got an appointment. I just don’t like that you had to get your appointment that way and that many others, equally eligible, couldn’t get in at all.
I’m disappointed we didn’t devise something better when we had so many months to plan.
I was able to get my 84 year old mother an appointment online. The process was so complicated that my very computer literate self got pretty frustrated, I honestly doubt she could have done it and she’s pretty with it.
The “government” didn’t plan because COVID was just going to go away, it was going to be like magic. Why waste time planning for mass vaccinations when its not really a problem?
Publix opened 450 appointments this morning. It took an hour and a half to distribute them.
The next opportunity is Wednesday, but I don’t have much hope. My wife is 76 and has insterstitial lung disease. It seems her primary care physician would have access to vaccinations for high risk patients. They give flu shots but not COVID.
This! I’m glad for those who are able to get through, but just being “eligible” isn’t enough because then you must have the time and ability to hit refresh and redial for who knows how long to compete with thousands of others for a small number of doses. This is what “rugged individualism” has wrought in this country and everyone seems fine with it. Sorry for the rant!
Yeah, but why didn’t the states have a plan? Or even counties, or doctors’ offices? (I gather some of the latter do; but my primary care, anyway, doesn’t.)
We’ve known since last fall that there was likely to be some vaccine available sometime this winter. It’s blindingly obvious that at first there wouldn’t be enough to go around. It was also pretty obvious that counting on the federal government to sort things out in any detail was unwise.
I understand that states didn’t (and still don’t) know how much vaccine they’d get on what schedule. But why couldn’t a system for organized waiting lists have been set up, instead of ‘nearly everybody in the country needs to check six websites and five phone numbers as often as possible, with the utterly obvious result that nobody can get through on any of them’?
What are the economics of COVID19 vaccination? People aren’t being charged for the vaccine, it is “free”. The federal government is providing the vaccine to the people who are administering it, but how do the vaccinators profit?
Yeah, we were really really lucky, and the process, at this point, is a joke. There are a large number of social media posts from people who tried all day and couldn’t get in. And it’s happening again this morning. The initial 300 spots are filled, but now one can call to get on the waiting list. But it’s just as bad as yesterday.,
A side note: We are Verizon cell phone customers, and we were getting a Verizon message telling us that the number could not be reached as dialed. ATT customers were getting a similar message from ATT, telling them to hang up and check the number. Users of other carriers were getting a busy signal or, in some cases, no connection to anything, just dead air. I’m not sure what that means, but I thought it was interesting.
The federal government is paying for it.
I’m pretty discouraged. My parents are both over 80 years old and I have no idea when they might be getting it. (They live in Los Angeles.).
CA has now flipped the script and partially revised its rollout priority. After the initial phases are done it’s going to straight age priority. Which simplifies the current chaotic mishmash of priorities, but definitely is going screw over some like younger people with disabilities/co-morbidities and certain front line workers.
With my job priority now 86-ed and only my increasing senescence going for me, I suspect I’m now moving a little farther back in the line. I’ve been pretty skeptical this was going to be anything but a mad scramble of a clusterfuck from the beginning. So, hey - at least it is living down to expectations 