Whats a Safeway? Is it a place that sells safes
Smitty
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 4:07 PM Steve <sfgrob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Act of chaos? Think that sums things up pretty well.
Steve
On 01/13/2021 15:03, rmlwp74 (Redacted sender rmlwp74 for DMARC) wrote:
Hi Everyone,
My wife Barbara and I were given our covid-19 shots this morning. Somehow
Safeway received a batch.
How were we informed? Well, a lady in Barbara's book club heard about the
opportunity from her ex-husband. That lady started notifying people in the
book club. Many of the people in the book club and ladies bridge group are
retired teachers who Barbara knew when she was teaching. One lady from the
bridge group notified Barbara and fifty others (she is very active in her
church and other senior type groups). We started monitoring the Safeway
medical dashboard and all of a sudden, many appointments were available. We
then notified some people in our mineral club who signed up and notified
others.
When we showed up for our shot, we were asked how we knew about the shot
being available ( was it suppose to be a secret?). She asked if we saw it
on their website or received word from the county health department. We
don't normally frequent Safeway's website and had not thought of checking
the county health departments website.
So, is the distribution of the vaccine and our chance of signing up an act
of randomness or an act of chaos? Perhaps networking is an additional layer
on top of those two factors. Certainly an orderly plan of distribution does
not come to mind.
We were so excited about the prospect of being vaccinated that we showed
up at Safeway a day early ( and were not the only ones to do so)! But, hell
we can't tell one day from another at our age! We get up in the morning and
26 wild turkeys are standing outside staring in our windows, waiting to be
fed. We feed them, have breakfast, walk the community roads with our
neighbors for exercise and social life. Then we retreat to our hobbies.
Good luck in getting your vaccine,
Bob
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