Overnight to get COVID shot

Best of luck ! Here in Ma, surrounding states check id, and won't let you in. Even inside of ma, the local clinics check id, and if you are not from a surrounding town, they will turn you away.

jp

 

I’ve seen a few stories about ferigners stopping by for shots but I’m thinking that if they’re shopping and vaccinated then this a GOOD thing.
Funny how IDs are required for some things, huh?

Since I’m now nearly 100 percent sure that Ive already had the bug, I’ll wait until the shot comes to ME.
If past is prologue, they’ll be very easy to get pretty soon.
I was much more concerned about getting a shingles and pneumonia vaccines, which I accomplished thru a PA. Getting them both in the same visit brought about a slightly more robust reaction.

 

My niece is really good at searching the Internet for spots to get the shot. She got my brother and his wife signed up at a Kroger in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. That is about 100 miles from their home near Akron. They made it a day trip.

The same niece also got me registered. I am 72 and I got my Moderna 3 weeks ago at our local Kroger pharmacy. My wife is on a half dozen lists but no joy. She won't be 65 till August and If you don't have a Medicare card, your chances of getting the shot are slim.

Hopefully, with the J&J vaccine coming online this week they will relax that age requirement a bit.

 

congrats bob!
mrs b has spent hours in virtual waiting rooms, to no avail. she is a bit panicky, while i'm in no hurry.

 

In MS, my home county has not figured out the internet, and you cannot make an appointment online. Wait times are about 2 hours. Nearby Washington county had online registration and both doses were 25 minute affairs including a 15 minute wait to check for adverse reactions. In both locations the MS National Guard mans the location, they are very good!

So far, I have not felt the urge to attack Tokyo.

 

Our state run internet portals were and still are absolutely the stupidest operations ever. In the unlikely event you get your first shot scheduled, they make you click through to schedule the second one. When you pick an available second one, the site informs you that the first slot is no longer available because the idiots don't hold it while you choose the second one. So you have to go back to the first one and pick another time. Then to the second one again where the same thing happens. You keep doing that till they are all gone and you sit there wondering what bonehead came up with that methodology.

So, after a few of those Groundhog Day parties, my wife found that Sam's Club has the shots. She went to their site and got us both scheduled in just a few minutes. We had our first doses just over two weeks ago. A little achey for a couple days and maybe a very mild fever, but nothing to get excited about. (Other than that third arm that grew out of my chest, but it fell off after a few days. )

 

I think that for many IT managers and software developers, ego takes precedence over common sense.

I am retired now but the company that I worked for came up with a paperless billing system for our 700 service technicians. The system would do everything from an app that they developed for the technicians phone. When they left home in the morning, they signed in to the app. The phone dispatched them to their first job. When they arrived at the customers site they clicked on a button that said that they had arrived. The app switched from the travel time rate and began the customer billable rate. When they completed their work, the customer would sign with finger gestures on the phone. The technician would then be dispatched to the next job and the app switched from the billable rate back to the travel rate. It kept track of the technicians all day. Sounds good in theory.

Technicians were not happy about they system knowing where they were every minute of the day but they were happy to be relieved of any paperwork. Daily records were stored on the phone until the phone was polled and they were moved to a company server.

One problem with the system was that the technician may have two customers whose facilities were across the street from each other but the system might dispatch them to a second across the state. Their third job may dispatch them back to the customer across the street from their first job. Technicians spent more time driving and less time billable.

Instead of rolling this new system out in one area, the IT manager decided to " go live " over the whole country and about three weeks in, the system crashed and they discovered that they lost all accounting data for 700 technicians for about three weeks. They ended up hiring 30 people for a couple months to try to reconstruct which jobs had been completed, the nature of the work, replacement parts that were consumed, whether they had invoiced the customer or if they had been paid.

This was a high visibility project that was going to give the IT manager/developers recognition but these problems sort of took the shine off.

 

I'll bet they got recognized all right. LOL!

 

a lot of these systems are seat of the pants, kinda like the vaccines. ma hasn't worked since the day it went up

 

Thursday I got my second vaccine shot at our local Kroger grocery/pharmacy. I was cautioned that many experience mild flu-like symptoms. Yesterday, I had local soreness at the injection site, mild fever/chills, a little achy and had a mild headache. Considering that every day I wake up and wonder what is going to ache today, that outcome was not too bad. Today, all is back to normal. One day with a little discomfort is a small price to pay for not getting something that could be a lot worse for an old geezer like me. Better living through science.

My sister just got her second dose at a clinic and when they marked her vaccination card, they also added a date about 6 months out for a booster shot. They didn't do that on mine.

 

I'm up for the first shot of Moderna this afternoon.

There is a mass vaccination site established in the county I reside, and the wife went onto the following website:

FAQs About Registering for COVID-19 Vaccination Time Slots - Eventbrite US Blog

Search for your area and you may find some openings .

 

mrs b has been on the search every morning without success. bad week coming, only got 24k doses in, and the week after, teachers get priority.
so it looks like late march to april for us.

 

Hopefully they will have it available.

I should have had my second shot three days ago, but that provider didn't get any allocation of Pfizer product for this past week, so I'm delayed. The 'official' windows goes out to 42 days.

They did get a big allocation of J&J, so had those going out at a separate mass vaccination site the past day or two.

Their Moderna location was active for first doses this week, but not with as many appointment slots as previously. Either they got a small allocation, or needed a bunch for second shots through a separate invite-only scheduling system not visible to the general public.

 

My wife just received JNJ single-shot vaccine. Our state recently changed the eligibility criteria and I could not get one yet. She had an appointment for the Pfizer or Modrna vaccine next week at the closest vaccination site ~45min drive, but she canceled it to get JNJ today. I had to drive her to the JNJ vaccination site ~2 hours away, but it was worth it. Now she is fully vaccinated. No more wait.

CDC says "1 Shot Or 2 Shots? ‘The Vaccine That’s Available To You — Get That'", but if I have a choice, I will take a quick and easy one.

 

That's amazing!! I think I read that they have to be 3-4 week on the booster or else you have to start over. I found the following on a news site dated Jan.23:

Here in FL, when you get the first shot, your second one is reserved for you in the freezer to make sure you get it on time. Otherwise, if (excuse me) when there's a delay in the supply line you don't waste your first shot.

Wow again! Young teachers here are clamoring for it. Governor says, to the effect of, we don't want the more vulnerable dying while the less vulnerable get vaccinated. The first responders and medical people along with the 65+ group is getting close enough to done that they are just about to expand it to the 60+ or even 55+ ages.

Now that we can just go to the pharmacy website or to doctor's office, it's way easier than it was. I've gotten emails from my family doctor and from the university medical center telling me I can get the shots from them if I schedule it. Too late. We're already half done.

 

I'm half done now too.

April 6th will be a great day.

 

teachers probably aren't voting for desantis

 

Haven’t had any issues with my last shot, maybe a small issue with a third eye growing the back of my head....might be considered hindsight. JK