On Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 8:05:42 PM UTC-6, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 16 Feb 2021 06:12:39 -0800 (PST), Dean
Hoffman wrote:

This article compares California's and Florida's approaches to the Covid virus. It says results are more or less similar.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9262397/How-California-Florida-took-different-approaches-ended-result.html
Not directly related, except this is about corona: Walgreen's is giving
vaccinations but every time I tried to sign up I'd have to click on the
first page, enter my zip and click, answer 4 questions and click



So I tried Giant, and get this, I'm in line to enter the website!!

You can close this page without losing your place in line.
You are now in line
You are in line for Giant Food COVID19. When it is your turn, you will
have 10 minutes to enter the website.
[very clever progress bar, green segments with a little walking man
in the right most segment!]
Expected arrival time on the website: 5:17 PM EST
Your estimated wait time is: 4 minutes (It started at 5 minutes. )
Status last updated: 5:14:56 PM EST

Leave the line (You will lose your place)
Queue ID: 255f2a41-d329-495b-9c20-7809cac36e6


So there are two ways to leave the page, one which keeps my place in
line and one which loses it.

-- Look how many numbers they use for my Queue ID! Ever since
computers were invented, American consumption of numbers has increased
tremendously. Except for a,b,c,d,e, and f, all the other numbers 0-9
are Arabic numbers and they are imported from Saudi Arabia and other
Arab-dominated countries.


SO, after waiting 10 minutes, I was redirected to the Giant Pharmacy
website, where it said:
There are currently no COVID-19 vaccine appointments available.
Please check back later. We appreciate your patience as we open as many
appointments as possible. Thank you.

To see if they ran out of places while I was waiting 10 minutes, I
started over, and at first got the same message, no COVID-19 vaccine,
and then tried again right away and got

Rejected queue number
There has been an error, and your queue number has been rejected. We
have reported the issue, and apologize for any inconvenience.
Unfortunately, you will need to click the button below to get a new
place at the end of the queue.
Get a new place in line

And again I'm waiting 10 minutes!! Will it be different this time? Only
my life hangs in the balance! This time, despite the hard-coded 10
minute message, the progress bar actually only asks for 5 minutes.

This is exciting. It's like going to the horse races, but instead of
betting 2 dollars, I'm betting my life!

Five minutes are up!! "There are currently no COVID-19 vaccine
appointments available. Please check back later. We appreciate your
patience as we open as many appointments as possible. Thank you."

I'm tearing up my betting tickets right now, lying down, and preparing
to be attacked by corona. If I awake tomorrow, maybe I'll try again.
Yeah but. You're not going to be exposed while you're trying to sign up
for the vaccine. That works as good as a shot and no pain.