Similar to what happened here in Grand Rapids, Bob. One person in my walk group
received a tollfree number from a friend to call for scheduling with Spectrum
Health, the huge local health system here. This was last weekend. Sure enough,
you could call anytime ... I called Sunday morning... and get a vaccination
time for this week. This was after filling out a survey online to be sure you
were eligible. I, unfortunately, was not able to schedule because they're only
making appointments for this week, then will assess how much vaccine they have
available at the present time. I need to wait another 10 days because of my
shingles shot last Saturday. DonnaSent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy
smartphone
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fhs-65@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [fhs-65] Got the Vaccine - by randomness or
chaos?
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
