Fred Weiss said:
Had my second shot a week ago. Hoping demand stays high so I can go out to eat soon in a sit down restaurant.
No kidding. I lucked out and got my first shot of the Pfizer/Bio-N-Tech vaccine last Friday (March 5) at a local Walgreens.
Oklahoma had been stuck in Phase 2 of the vaccine roll-out. Turnout the past couple or so weeks was very slow. And that's even with some of the pop-up vaccine clinics operating on limited
banker's hours. On Feb 27 one of my co-workers took her mother to a clinic the health dept was running at a former Dillard's store in our dying 70's era mall. Lots of staff were sitting around with hardly anyone to vaccinate. She called me about it, saying if I went down there I might be able to get a shot. By the time I got there the clinic was closed. At lunchtime on a Saturday. I was not happy. Later the following week I heard they cancelled the Saturday clinic for March 6. That got me angry.
Obviously the state needed to open eligibility to far more people. Instead they were coddling the 65 and older crowd and various other groups
so they can get vaccinated whenever they feel like some day getting around it, just whenever it is convenient. It should have been obvious to the health department and other agencies that there is a bunch of people in those eligible groups who have no intention of getting vaccinated. There is a lot of stupid bull$#!+ floating around online about the vaccines. So many of us Americans are gullible enough to believe that nonsense.
If some older guy wants to drag his feet on deciding about a vaccine then fine. Wait. But don't allow that to hold up everyone else.
Someone in my neighborhood group on the Nextdoor social media web site posted on March 5 that a local Walgreens was taking walk-ins. No appointment, no restrictions, just roll up your sleeve. They had the Pfizer/Bio-N-Tech vaccine. Once you thaw out a package of those vaccines you have to use them up that day. With the 65+ group farting around, procrastinating, that created an opening for others to get immunized. I took off work early to check it out and got my first shot. I told several of my friends about it and they got their first shots over last weekend.
This week Oklahoma
finally shifted to Phase 3 on vaccine eligibility. Anyone working in an essential business can book an appointment. I laughed when I got an email from the health department on Tuesday saying I could now book an appointment. That's about 2-3 weeks overdue IMHO.
Some of my friends and co-workers don't want to get vaccinated. Yet they're tired of the restrictions brought on by the pandemic and want them lifted.
It's a contradictory stance. If you want the mitigation steps lifted, not have to wear a face mask, have businesses operate at normal capacity and normal business hours
then get the ****king vaccine! It's that obvious. The sooner everyone gets immunized the sooner we go back to normal.
