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Originally Posted by issybird
Biden’s said this evening that every adult who wants to be vaccinated will be able to able to get it by the end of May; I imagine that relies heavily on the J&J jab.
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To be fair, I think what he said was that there would be enough
supply for everyone by then. I don't expect to be able to get mine till summer. I'm 45 and am in the "everyone else" category on the other list. Davidson County has been lagging a bit behind the state overall in moving from stage to stage and I don't expect that to change.
We moved to the 65+ group in the last couple of days. My roommate, who turned 66 last month, just got his first dose of Pfizer-BioNTech today. In fact, he got home while I was typing this. The appointment process was easy, he did it online last night, and they emailed him a pdf copy of the info he had entered. But the actual vaccination site location wasn't on the pdf or easily visible anywhere on the web site. Google sorted that out, as the local news channels had been running stories on it and those came up when searching, but we don't watch local news much, and we don't use Facebook (another place they apparently listed it). I find it so bizarre that they just don't have some highly visible mention on the actual vaccination info page or during the appointment process stating that the vaccine clinic is at Music City Center.
But his experience was smooth otherwise.
I'm hoping that by the time my age group comes up, local supply will be such that I can get it at my doctor's office. Many doctor's offices have been getting limited supply of each of the approved vaccines for the past few weeks but they run out very quickly. I'm definitely getting the vaccine but I'm fine waiting as long as it takes. I'm not in a hurry to go anywhere. I've left the property twice in the past year. Once on March 9, 2020, after the tornado but right before Covid swooped down, and once in November. I'm a natural hermit so I'm good.
On a side note, I understand why the poll option that is being discussed was included. My mother is currently using that excuse but I'm pretty sure that's not her actual reason. Her actual reason, which she knows I'll shoot down instantly, is also nonsense but not a topic for this forum. She hasn't yet realized that there's going to be reckoning - If I'm vaccinated and she isn't, I'm still not comfortable going to see her for a very long time. A friend of hers is going through cancer treatments, and I'm hoping that between him, his doctors and her doctors, she will eventually make a choice based on rationality. But I can't tell her what to do, I can only tell her what I
won't do.