If the provider called and knew my profile and said come and get a shot I would get the shot.

I’m speaking to the “I could slightly fudge my age and get a shot” or some other similar lie group.
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You can make whatever rationalization you want about get the shot before your cohort is opened up.

I have certain principles and in this case it’s not worth breaking them to queue jump. YMMV.
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We don’t seem to have that issue here.

Root waiting may have been what made it easy for my non computer using MIL get a shot. No way she could navigate anything more challenging than a phone...

Ive known about an easy work around to get a shot for a few months now and know of people who have exploited it.

I can’t justify to myself getting in line before my number is called.

There is...

Anyone know of any resources helping technology challenged seniors get a vaccine appointment in Missoula, MT? Have some time myself, but would like some additional help if possible.

MIL needs to...

Oh good, I'm not the only one.

https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2021/01/editorial-gov-brown-must-ensure-teachers-vaccines-lead-to-school-reopening.html

Oregon bumped teachers ahead of 65+ despite federal guidelines. It’s...

None of this is surprising to hear, but it seems incredibly simple to check an ID for age and address and turn people away when you have a giant line of people to serve.

I get that the people...

As usual, you completely miss the point and fail to make whatever yours is.

Thats disappointing, I would think that they would be turning people away who don’t fit the criteria unless they were going to have expired vaccines the next morning.

Will these people now be...

Nah, the number one thing we can all to not die from COVID is to not get it in the first place.

My wife is a doctor. At one point we were discussing something health related and I was sort of doing what Montucky is doing and she said something to the effect of "I've been studying this stuff for...

Because there is plenty of evidence on this board that these fit, healthy eating people are getting COVID. And most of the time it's because the easy stuff wasn't implemented.

Lame.

I'm saying you are looking right past the low hanging, easily implemented solution that other countries have implemented (masks, social distancing, contact tracing) and jumping to a poorly...

This whole Asian diet and lifestyle derail is a reminiscent of every argument we have as a nation where doing anything regarding a hard problem that might slightly inconvenience someone, doesn't 100%...

Look, we all get the pre-existing conditions argument. The Obama admin tried to do a bunch around this with developing healthy eating and exercise habits in school children and was roundly met with...

I read this headline late last night and thought to myself "no way, they had to have some sort of plan..."

I guess this is all part of their "let the states" figure it out plan?