{"id":9784,"date":"2021-02-15T19:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=9784"},"modified":"2021-02-15T19:00:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T00:00:48","slug":"twisting-the-covid-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/15\/twisting-the-covid-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"Twisting the COVID knife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I previously reported<\/a> the difficulty that I was encountering in my attempts to get the COVID vaccine. But what used to be merely annoying has now become cruel. On Friday I was, for the first time, offered a chance to book a vaccination appointment on the Publix site. But the nearest available appointment was in Jacksonville – 5 hours away!. Today I did a bit better: I was offered an appointment in Flagler County, a mere 4-hour drive. I declined both. My limit is probably 2.5 hours of driving each way – a total of 10 hours of driving (2 trips of 5 hours each).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To twist the knife a bit more, Lee County called me tonight to schedule an appointment at the mass vaccination site in Fort Myers – hardly any driving at all. I was pretty excited. But after going through a long list of eligibility questions which I answered satisfactorily the interviewer said “let’s see when the next available appointment is.” Pause. Then “Oh, I am so sorry, but the last available appointment for February was just filled. We will have to call you back.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a software designer I have to say that failing to reserve a slot at the beginning of the interview is an egregious design flaw. If they hadn’t called I would have been fine. But calling and getting my hopes up, only to have my hopes dashed so viciously is just cruel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is becoming apparent that I will not be leaving Florida by early April as I had hoped. I will have to stick around and let them twist that COVID knife a bit more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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