Jumping the Vaccine line?

(((Hugs)))

You are perfectly within your rights to feel upset and envious and everything else.

You are a good person. 🥰 I can’t wait until you get your shots and this will become a bad distant memory.

I was a little concerned that they were going to open our state up to 16 and up right after they finished with the 60 and up. I felt that they needed to drop down to 50 first. They did, thankfully. But I will say that we do have open vaccination spots even with the drop down to 16 last week. I do understand how you feel. It isn't fair. Hopefully your state will open up your age group quickly. We stalked some large vaccination sites to see if they had extras at the end of the day. I know people that got theirs that way.

I think the goal is for everyone to get the shot and I keep telling myself that. Our country is not doing vaccine only anything though. We have not been told that if we’re vaccinated we can do anything differently. I think that is because we don’t have a large anti vac movement.if our country was letting those who had been vaccinated have parties, travel, be inside, etc I’d probably feel more like you.

I would be miffed at these so called “friends” jumping the line. But I don’t think there’s really anything that you can do about it. And I suspect that the organizers feel the same way. That people are jumping the line and there isn’t a system in place to prove that you are deserving of the shot. So they just opened it to everyone.

Make your appt for next week and celebrate the win. That’s about all that you can do.

MD completely opened up yesterday.

Oh I had it! I think you're normal if you have it. I mean you WANT people who need it the most to get it, but when they're young and healthy, you're like WTH? My 20yo super healthy son was called a couple weeks ago, just before VA opened up the sites to everyone. I think they are trying to get college kids under control, too. So I am good with that, but luckily I was called just before he was or I'd feel the same way.

FWIW, my other two haven't gotten vaccines yet. One in the UK with serious health issues (it will be soon!) and the other in Switzerland and she won't get it until August. They haven't started the under 75yo yet.

I am just happy we are here in the US and we have a president who put this as an incredible priority.

I totally understand. I will freely admit to being judgy about anyone who lied to get vaccinated before their turn. That includes my favorite nephew. I was hard pressed to keep my mouth shut when my sister told me what he did.

I wouldn't worry about all of it.  If it is open to everyone, just go.  I wouldn't think twice about it.  If it is all open it's all open.  

I am in PA and we just started phase 1b this week. We were in phase 1a a long time. My husband got vaccinated then because his coworker told him those with a bmi above a certain amount can get vaccinated in first phase.

His work is having a mass vaccination clinic this week because they are a manufacturing company. My fil asked if spouses could go. I won't go because I will go when I am eligible in a couple weeks (I am terrified of getting the vaccine and am not "smart" enough in the science area to research it well). I don't think it's fair for me to get it when I am not eligible. But Biden says everyone in the ocuntry has to be eligible in a couple weeks, so I am happy to wait. It should be easy to get an appt. because so many have already gotten vaccinated in my state.  I was hoping to get it in July, but they are moving fast so I will have to get it in a couple weeks.

I think it’s pretty normal to feel jealous or anxious when others all around you are getting the vaccine and you haven’t.

I was pretty cool about waiting my turn and being patient, and being retired, I could easily stay home most of the time - until it seemed like everyone else I knew was getting vaccinated. Granted, the first ones were because they work in medical fields, and that wasn’t a concern; I was glad for them. I also wanted my super high risk relatives to get theirs first.

Then, because tons of my friends are former co-workers, in the schools, they were all posting about getting vaccinated and I started to get a little anxious. It’s almost like being left out of some desirable club! I also knew I was going to have my knee replacement surgery so as soon as the state opened up for under 65 with co-morbidities, I jumped on trying to get the first dose. I had to work around timing for before surgery, and then having at least two weeks after surgery before getting the second dose.

I have younger relatives who got scheduled under the co-morbidity provision, and I’d say some of those were "loose" interpretations of the guidelines. Since most of the people I know are supporters of getting vaccinated, I try to remind myself that the more people getting vaxed, the better. But I also felt concern for the older people who want to but have had problems navigating the system. Luckily we've had a six day a week clinic staffed partly with National Guard, and that has helped get tons of people in my area vaccinated.

I just this morning got my second dose scheduled for Sunday. Not the timing I preferred but I booked it because I want to get the second done and be that much closer to being fully vaccinated.

I've felt the same. Everyone around me has been vaccinated and I'm still trying to find some place. If I want to drive 3 hours one way I could have gotten one any day this week, but with my work schedule and being tax time, that just isn't possible. MN opened up for everyone 16+ 2 weeks ago I think, but the hospitals are still only doing 65+ for some reason.

Very grateful for my work though. We received an email yesterday that they are setting up a clinic for May 7th so anyone who wants a shot cane sign up and get one at work. Sent that email in right away yesterday saying I wanted to be signed up.

I know things are going to be off for a while, but it just feels like a huge weight off my shoulders and that maybe we can have some sort of normalcy.

I do understand the vaccine jealousy but I made a conscious decision early on not to concern myself with why/how others were getting the shot ahead of me. In most cases, I have no way of knowing if someone is caring for a medically fragile child, has their own comorbidity, or simply lucked out and got a "no waste" vaccine at CVS at the end of the day.

In the end - every single person that gets vaccinated helps protect all the rest of us.

My state is now open to everyone 16+. At a few of the mass sites you don't even need an appointment anymore. While it is great that vaccines seem to be readily available for all who want them I am a bit concerned this means not enough people are getting the shots...

this is the only thing that matters to me.  i know there are line jumpers. i think that "eat or be eaten/every man for himself"  mentally is inevitable during a crisis such as this.  i just have to tell myself that at least they are vaccinated and that's one less person who can infect me.  in the end, even those line jumpers put us one step closer towards a greater good.   

The youngest, healthiest, fittest, person in my family got the vaccine first, but didn’t break the rules. It was weird. I qualified for 3 different reasons and couldn’t come up with an appt no matter how hard I tried but my kid got it no problems. I was slightly miffed, but kept it to myself, not his fault at all. He had the benefit of being on a college campus and having ‘free’ time to volunteer at a vaccine site ( that just also happened to be on campus ) yay quick thinking college kid. I was able to snag my appt a short time later with some diligent site stalking online. Now we are all vaccinated twice and all set. Youngest one has already ‘tested’ his vaccine by being exposed. I’m NOT envious of that at all. I also wasn’t all yay good thinking college kid about it either.

I think we are all going to feel a lot of things about all this covid stuff as we move forward and all of those feelings are valid. It is a crazy time. Have grace with yourself while you sort thru all of it, your human.

Hope you are able to be vaccinated soon.