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Old 01-29-2021, 07:09 AM
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Originally Posted by toeser View Post
As someone who has designed quick capture input programs, I will attest the design is terrible. If anyone from Publix is reading this, following is how the process should work once someone gets through the queue and is let in.

Pick a county that's available
Pick a location that's available
Pick a timeslot that's available

Assuming you clicked first, that timeslot is now yours and you have five minutes to input the required personal information. If you do not meet the requirements or you do not finish within five minutes, that timeslot is returned to be available for others.

This would be light-years faster than the input system they have designed.
The problem with that is that The Villages is spread across three counties. Depending on where you live in The Villages and where the vaccine is being administered you might want to go to a different county. Also some people might be willing to travel to other counties. I'd prefer to be able to see all of my options at once.

My experience was that I looked around the different sites to try to select the one that was closest. When I decided on one, it was full. My second selection was also full so I ended up with my third pick which was an hour's drive. No big deal but if you look at only one county at a time and that county is full, by the time that you get back to it it may be full.

What would be helpful would be to have the full addresses of the sites instead of just the county and town.
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