Pfizer VaccineSurvey Registration Confirmation

[Arthur Rubin]

I received an E-mail with that heading, without my name or E-mail appearing in From: or CC: sections.

Payload is an image; my E-mail provider doesn't open images by default, and I'm not going to. Note the spacing problem in the title. Date: is in August 2020....

("You have won the lottery" seems more appropriate than "other", under the circumstances.)

[eric]

Similar emails have started to appear in Canada, although I haven't personally got one. In our province as a security precaution, any emails regarding your vaccination come with a unique ten digit confirmation code that you receive when you book an appointment. If you wish to change/cancel/etc your email also has to contain that code. I guess it sort of works...

[Cathulhu]

Here in the other Washington, it's going smoothly. I get my second jab of Moderna tomorrow, at a drive-thru event. But my spouse is unlikely to qualify until April, so I'm locking down said spouse and doing ALL the shopping and any errands outside our home. I have a deep horror of lasting this long and losing. I went to the state website, did the paperwork there, and got advised by email of vaccine events until I got into one. I don't even have to get out of the car!

[eric]

My wife gets her first shot tomorrow, mine will be in about a week by my estimate, although I could get one earlier but I'm lazy. All done by appointment only, when your year of eligibility comes up go to the website, just enter only your postal code and it tells you yes/no appointments available within an hours drive of you. Finish entering your details and it gives you a choice of ten locations and days, then pick one and time of day. All of two minutes work on my part. I wanted to get my wife into one of the Indian/Metis clinics since they give you a gift of bush meat afterwards but didn't feel like the extra drive so it will be MacDonald's tomorrow rather than moose meat. Side note, afterwards I have a one hour zoom meeting interview since we match some demographic that a government wonk wants to know our opinion on the whole process. In our province they're working on the basis of many small immunization sites rather than fewer big ones, people are used to it since that's the way annual flu immunizations are done.

[AndyK]

Maryland: I'm WELL over 65 and wife has qualifying issues. Both of us received second shot about five days ago.

Now, just waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.

[Pottapaug1938]

Both my wife and I are over 65. She got her second shot, last week, at Dana-Farber; and she got the Pfizer vaccine, which she liked because she owns stock in that company. I get my second shot, of the Moderna vaccine, on the 26th.

[The Observer]

Still waiting for my category (1c) to be called up, though the wife told me this morning that we are now 1b+ based on our ages. The governor, however, has announced an end to the categorization policy and that anyone from age 16 up can get the vaccine starting April 1st. My preference at this point would either be Pfizer or the Johnson & Johnson shots; I have heard of too many problems with the Moderna and AstroZeneca products. I also decided against Russia's Sputnik-5 vaccine after I asked an acquaintance how he tolerated getting it and his text came back with:

Вакцинация прошла успешно, побочных эффектов не заметил.

[wserra]

My wife and I have both received first shots, she Moderna and I Pfizer. My second is next week, hers still three weeks off.

The dates are highlighted on my calendar.

[Burnaby49]

Maryland: I'm WELL over 65 and wife has qualifying issues. Both of us received second shot about five days ago.

Now, just waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.

Canada is doing very poorly compared to just about any other western nation and British Columbia seems to be doing worse that the rest of the country. Here we're currently vaccinating the 85+ group with the 80+ now being allowed to contact the government for a tentative schedule. I'm almost 72 so I can expect, at best, maybe April, but probably May.

[eric]

Really Burnaby, you haven't thought of a solution yet? All you have to do is switch your residence from the Lower Mainland to such fine places as Port Alice or Tahsis or even Prince Rupert and you might have allready had your shot. Just ignore the fact that it rains 364 days out of the year. (the other day it's either snowing or dense fog).

More seriously, it's a matter of demographics and approach. Alberta has relatively few senior residents and is going strictly by age with multiple small community clinics since it has a well developed "hot shot" logistics system borrowed from the oil and gas industry. BC has the opposite age demographic but is blitzing isolated communities. Both methods are probably equally valid.

[Burnaby49]

Prince Rupert is now vaccinating any adult who wants it. However I spent three days there once and I still have no idea what the place looked like. All I can remember is the driving rain.

[wserra]

Curious, I just checked: Prince Rupert receives 262 cm (103 in) of rain on average per year.

That's a wet place.

[eric]

I purposely picked the wettest, most isolated, and most uncomfortable parts of BC that actually have a settlement. Port Alice is even wetter than Prince Rupert , 130 inches compared to 103 in Prince Rupert. The only thing nice about the weather in Port Alice is that it receives almost no snow if you ignore the 100 mph winds in winter. (edit to add) These are all places that I would swing into on my annual "visit every mill town" tour through BC in the spring. Personally I kind of liked Port Alice, good place to raise a young family since it is so totally isolated.

[Burnaby49]

Personally I kind of liked Port Alice, good place to raise a young family since it is so totally isolated.

If that's your criteria you'd love Bella Coola. Port Alice has a well maintained paved road taking you to highway 19 in about half an hour. Bella Coola also has a highway out but it's a difficult six hour drive to Williams Lake, the nearest town of any consequence.

Bonnie Henry, the British Columbia Provincial Health Officer, announced today that she anticipates a rapid increase in inoculation rates. According to her my age group will be allowed to schedule appointments in the last week of the month. My wife, a mere child of 68, will have to wait longer, timing currently uncertain.

[Arthur Rubin]

Got another one with no misspelled words. If they had my name, I might have fallen for it. (My primary E-mail address has my wife's name without a "dot", and the bot didn't think to split it to produce a name.)

As for my actual vaccine status, my wife (73 years old, with a few medical conditions) is eligible, but we have to make the vaccine appointment before we can book a transportation appointment and a caregiver appointment, and haven't been able to get all three aligned.

I am only 65 (with one medical condition on the list), and am on the virtual waiting list with the county system, as well as checking the pharmacies and my doctor's office. The doctor's medical group website says that they will have vaccines available, and will allow us to make appointments -- eventually. The new state system is willing to make appointments in the next county over, but _they_ won't accept people without a connection to that county. California, on the other hand, will declare anyone who can find it on a map a tax resident.

[Cathulhu]

The scammers emerge. I got an email on the same account that I used to set up and get my covid jabs, only this one did not have my name on it, just a fake "You qualify for a shot!" certificate, using "you" rather than my identity. And of course it offered a handy website to click on to make the appointment. I've forwarded it as phishing, since it obviously was.