"Best defence against covid is to get vaccinated."

[sprinkleeninow]

So, where pray tell where is the vaccine available for God's sake?

I'm signed up on 3 places. Nada, zippo, zilch. They smartly lowered age group to 65+ and so what the heck is going on?

I should cool my jets, but I don't need more crap coming down the pike at me, spending time checking available appointments.

*someone* under God's judgement for this whole tragic thing from last year. What a sorrowful anniversary!

Editing to say: "....against covid 'VARIANTS'." Still and all....

[Aristus]

1. Trump filled every available agency office with one of his incompetent toadys.

It's going to take President Biden months to get it all sorted out.

[sprinkleeninow]

5. Ari, my dear one!

You know it. Destruction personified.

May you be safe, and well in all ways. 💖

[Aristus]

6. Aw, thank you...

You, too...

I just got my second dose of the Moderna vaccine on Friday. Saturday I was down for the count with chills and fatigue. But now I'm much better. I hope the vaccine will go into general distribution very soon...

[The empressof all]

2. It is extremely frustrating.

We were able to get our first shot last week but haven't been able to secure a spot for our second on or around the 20th. In my state you need to go to each locations individual web site to secure an appointment which is crazy. I spent five hours a day clicking around to find openings which opened at random times at each location. You would think there would be some centralized location for making appointments. Why is there no AP for this? Since every location has a different interface and screening process it really is unnecessarily cumbersome.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Craziest system I have ever seen.

No rhyme or reason.

Right, I had to go to each vaccination clinic website and keep checking and checking.

Usually when you get your first shot, they give you a card documenting the first shot.
And giving you the second shot appointment.

[Tanuki]

9. Wow, that is so disorganized and dysfunctional. How can you even be sure

that your second dose is the same formulation (Pfizer vs. Moderna) as the first? Best of luck to you!

[roamer65]

13. At least with the first shot your body will know how to respond to the virus.

The first shot gives your immune system the ability to produce targeted antibodies. The second shot tells it to flood your system with them.

But still a horrible system if u have to hunt for the second shot. In Michigan, we get an automatic second shot appointment 4 weeks later.

[The empressof all]

14. I got mine at a mass vaccination site by the county health dept.

I am suppose to get an email when second shot appointments open up for me around the 20th. Meanwhile I'm starting to look for sites that offer the Pfizer shot so I can speed up my searching. Sigh....

[Demsrule86]

3. I wish I could but it will likely be months for me.

[Irish_Dem]

4. I got up very early each morning and checked the sites.

And kept working the sites until I finally got an opening.

My first appt is Saturday. I am so excited but nervous.
Hope it does not get cancelled.

[Baclava]

16. Ditto, calling for weeks at crack of dawn, got appt last Fri, 1st dose today, #2 already set up 28 d

Moderna, No lines, just walk into pharmacy at appt time, get shot, wait 15 min, done, u get yur immnuz record card and info packet

Publix grocery in FL, At least they have virtual waiting room that refreshed every minute when u log onto website, no phone dialing, got lucky I guess, goes by county, allocated so many doses, 800 available when I hit,yeah, really lucky, you can watch them fill up fast, like winning the lottery

[Ms. Toad]

8. In Ohio, there are far more 65+ individuals than there is vaccine

Meanwhile 64.5 year old me, with two cancers and diabetes isn't even eligible to sign up. They are holding for several weeks while they follow through on vaccinating all the young healthy school employees as a bribr to have districts provide some in person schooling. (School employees don't have to be involved in providing the in person education to get vaccinated, the school doesn't have to do much more than have an optional day a week in person to be eligible. Not that I'm pissed, or anything, since I've been teaching in person since August and still have no option to get vaccinated.)

[sprinkleeninow]

10. I don't want to let it really get to me, but it does.

I get more pi$$ed every passing day.

Here's me, a person of 'faith'. Nice witness, huh?

[Ms. Toad]

11. Me too - a person of faith.

It has been sorely tested the last year or so.

I am just grateful that my spouse got a vaccination slot (tomorrow or Wednesday). She has refused/been unable to wear a mask around siblings (some of whom are unmasked around their rabidly anti-mask chidren, her office mate, or her clients. We've had several shouting matches about it (the most recent of which was Thursday).

My position is that if she won't wear her mask anytime she is inside with anyone who does not live in our house she needs to wear her mask - I have to wear mine 24/7 (including in the house, including while sleeping). It seems to me fundamentally unfair for her to refuse a few hours, a few days a week (at most) of discomfort when doing so forces me to wear at least one mask 24/7 to protect myself. She says wearing masks gives her pimples in her nose, the people around her are being careful too (they aren't), that they are relatives or she needs to build relationships with elderly hard-of-hearing relatives. I know darn well that if I don't ask the right questions at the right time, I won't even know when I'm at risk.

So - since she is the biggest threat to my safety right now, I'm grateful that in approximately 5 weeks she will be protected. I know we don't know yet whether that protection extends to being unable to pass the virus on to me - but my logic tells me it likely will - so that gives me some comfort.

But I'm pretty sure I've never hated anyone, or even passively wished them to cease existing until this last year - I'm really struggling since hating Trump (or anyone) is pretty much the antithesis of who I am.

[sprinkleeninow]

12. I hear you. Trying to keep from being defiled by those kinds of thoughts

regarding you know who. And all who have contributed to this unspeakable damage wrought. Deliberately.

Utterances of 'someone' keeling over. Then asking forgiveness and that His will be done, not mine.

[The empressof all]

15. Oh I am so sorry this is something you are enduring

This is stressful enough without having to have those kinds of battles in the home. I get a little crazy when people say everyone around them is being "safe". You really just can't know that.

[Ms. Toad]

17. My point exactly -

And, the day I read my spouse the riot act for the first time she was indirectly exposed by someone she had been having lunch with unmasked (and in whose office she had been spending time unmasked). Two days later my daughter (also read the riot act the same day) was directly exposed for several hours.

Fortunately, neither of them contracted COVID. I'm less worried about catching it from my daughter (who is still hanging out with a small group of friends unmasked at least part of the time) since she stays in her room most of the time she is at the house. My spouse, on the other hand shares a small bedroom and a bed with me for ~6 hours every night.

I'll just be glad when she's vaccinated and I can breathe a little easier, since I will be less worried about secondary exposure from her.