Florida

I'm registered through our state Department of Health, and they are completely inscrutable, other than sending me emails telling me NOT to try to go around their system to get a shot, but if I do, please let them know. This is supposedly one of the top two or three states at getting the vaccine out, and I cannot figure out why I haven't gotten one. And if this state is one of the best, god help those in the bad states.

There was a huge article in today's Santa Fe New Mexican profiling any number of seniors who likewise can't get the vaccine, and the DOH isn't giving any of us a clue as to when it might happen.

So here's my point: If the eligibility is opened up to millions more, won't that make things worse? Won't the jockeying for position get brutal?

My time is more important than to spend 30 hours on line refreshing a computer screen to try to get a vaccine. I am able to stay home. My overall health is excellent. I'm not sure if that heart attack really makes me more vulnerable to a bad Covid outcome than before it happened. It's just that I keep on seeing all these stories of others, many younger than I am, or willing to spend hours and hours in front of the computer, getting in line. Grrrr. If this were being done right, we'd all know exactly where we are in line and we'd each get the vaccine when we should.

Maybe by August, when everyone who wants the vaccine has gotten it, I'll have finally gotten over my irritation. I will also add that putting smokers ahead of someone like me is crap. Remind me again how smokers only recently (1964) learned that smoking is bad for them. Personally, I'd put them at the very back of the line, after the 16 year old non smokers.