Daily Check-in

[starwatcher]

 
This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Tuesday, December 28th, to midnight on Wednesday, December 29th. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #26486 Daily Check-in

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 35

How are you doing?

I am OK.
23 (67.6%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
11 (32.4%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
11 (32.4%)

One other person.
15 (44.1%)

More than one other person.
8 (23.5%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
 

Comments

[ratcreature]

I got my booster shot today, so I'm happy about that.

[fred_mouse]

Woot! Way to go!

I have mine scheduled for not quite 2 weeks hence -- I don't become eligible until 4th Jan, and it was what the Drs surgery offered.

[ratcreature]

I managed to snag an appointment the same day they reduced the eligibility interval from six to four months (my second was in late August). I was lucky to find a practice that offered extra booster appointments for anyone because of the omicron surge, and still had some free. I thanked them profusely for their extra efforts between the holidays.

With my own GP I would have had to wait much longer and the city vaccination places also only free offered slots in February. It's a kind of ridiculous system here, that makes you search for vaccinations in a kind of Darwinian struggle (well I hope GPs prioritize the vulnerable somehow, but my brother who is a decade older than me, and has several risk factors for bad covid also couldn't get boosted by his GP, but found a dermatologist who offered extra vaccinations services.)

[fred_mouse]

Ah! Our eligibility interval drops from six months to five as of 4th Jan, and I booked the day I discovered that that made me eligible (my second was mid August; partners was late August). That 'find your own' issue sounds dreadful. I think (but didn't check) that our free clinics will have expanded the available slots again, I just wanted to get done quickly, and suspected that the appointments at the clinics would have filled up very quickly again -- for my first shot I made an appointment within 24 hours of them opening, and had to wait over a month.

I don't know about GPs, but I know that there have been some specific prioritisation of people at higher risk, because several people I know have had boosters already and didn't appear to have issues accessing them.

[dewline]

Good on you getting to that!

[kathmandu]

Congratulations!

[ratcreature]

So far only my arm hurts, do maybe I'll get away without getting a fever like I had with my second dose.