There are two incorrect assumptions in your prediction. First of all, not everyone will opt to take the vaccine. Secondly, there is no reason to believe the rate of vaccination won't increase over the next few months as production of Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines ramps up and the AstraZeneca and J and J vaccines receive emergency use authorization.

Or.....it could be a train!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't worry, this will all be gone when it warms up in the spring.

That is what was said last spring about the coming summer!!!!

"Because it's the right thing to do."


All too many people, have either forgot this great advice on how to live their lives, or never believed in it in the first place. While there are lots of people who like to point to younger generations and lump them all together, claiming a supposed general selfishness and "me first" attitude, they're watching a lot of us older generation(s) and shaking their heads at the hypocrisy.

Wildwood Community Center, so not golf cart accessible

It's how I was raised. It was pretty shocking to come to this forum and see opinions of people my parents' and grandparents' age, displaying such entitlement attitudes about pretty much every possible topic they could come up with.

I grew up in a comfortable lifestyle - the typical new england suburb where kids walked to elementary school, didn't need to lock our doors (but did at night anyway), everyone knew their neighbors, most families had both parents still married to each other, the male working full time and the woman either stay at home or working part time. Generic White American New England.

And yet somehow, my parents knew enough to instill in me a sense of "doing right because it's the right thing to do."

My grandparents were even more emphatic about it. My grandfather GAVE away his dental care to patients during the depression - not because he had to - but because it was the right thing to do. Often he would be paid in chickens, or bartered services, ice for the ice box. And he was paid that way, because the patients believed it was the right thing to do - even though my grandfather didn't ask or expect them to pay him during that time.

Publix
 

Was able to get an appointment at a Publix in Ocala for my mother-in-law. Took her up there yesterday.

:bigbow::bigbow: So true and so sad at what goes on. To see and hear what goes on in TV by declared law abiding citizens that are Christian and open minded, not.

To those who have had the first shot........

Were you given an appointment for your second shot? Are you guaranteed the second shot will be available to you when it is time for your second shot?

We got our COVID vaccine Friday night. We had appointments at Publix in Ocala. In and out in 20 minutes. 15 minutes was required post vaccination to monitor for reactions. You register on line and everything is ready when you walk in the door. Website works much better than Eventbrite. Shot 2 in 28 days! They will notify you of 2nd shot availability. Got to love Publix’ ability to manage this! Hope they make this available in every store.

Which Publix in Ocala did you go to?
Where did you have to wait your 15 minutes afterwards?

We went to the store on Maricamp close to Silver Springs. They had chairs in the pharmacy area. Well organized.

Publix registrations have ended until they can catch up and get more vaccine, I tried to post the story link from the newspaper but it got flagged as spam so this was the info in the article.

All of Publix’s COVID-19 vaccine slots have been filled, according to the company’s website.

Appointments for the vaccines opened Thursday, two days after Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that 22 stores would receive and administer the Moderna vaccine as part of a pilot program.

Please wake up from you’re dream! As soon as shot are available it will be flooded.

The process was well managed by Publix. I wouldn't say that their registration website was "much" better than Eventbrite. I got in and was able to make the appt. for my MIL. But if I had needed/wanted two appts back to back (If my father-in-law were still alive), there didn't seem to be a way to do that. Would have had to start over with the second request, which probably wouldn't have been available in conjunction with the first, if at all.
There was a couple at Publix when we went that were in that very boat. The wife was getting her vaccine, but the husband couldn't get his until Saturday.

That's cause there are virtually no shots available!

No lines in The Villages
 

The Original Post wasn't serious, it was humor with a bit of sarcasm.

Why isn't a master database created for Sumter County so that everyone who wants the vaccine can be pre-registered. Then develop a system for distribution instead of this hit or miss system being used now. It doesn't sound that difficult.

Had two computers up @ 08:00. One screen came up @ 08:00 - “You are in line, thanks”
At 08:45 said same thing. (Logging in on a third computer at 08:45, it said that Event is sold out)
The second computer screen advised @08:02 — “It’s you turn” It also stated that the first and second time slots were unavailable and the third was sold out.
At 08:18 the screen suddenly said “one ticket available for one of the unavailable time slots —- clicked to buy but screen came up “event sold out”
Some people must have fingers that move at light speed and/or much more computer savvy than I am ! Probably the latter.I

I was on the site at 7:59. At 8:00 said I was in the queue. Of course that didn’t work out! Duhhhh.......Anyone have any understanding of how the queue is established?

I wish someone like you were put in charge of distribution. I find it appalling that many very healthy 60’s year olds are receiving the vaccine before people in their 80’s with compromised conditions just because they are more computer savvy with faster fingers. Covid-19 vaccine injections are becoming a dog eat dog competition with bragging rights for those who “scored”. How sad 😔......

Last time they used this raffle ticket like system it was reported that 35,000 people tried to get an appointment. It was probably at least that many this time competing for only 340 appointments so your chances were slim to none. The Sumter county DOH is doing its best with both limited resources and the very small number of doses it has been allocated. Once CVS, Walgreens, and Publix pharmacies can get up to speed things will improve greatly.

Sumter County C19 Shots What a Joke.
 

At 280 (140 Mon and 140 Wed), shots a week it will take Sumter 356 days to perform 100,000 vaccines shots. Sense you only get to days a week for shots we are looking at 7 to 8 years before they are done. Got to do better then this.

In a perfect world the people who said "its just the flu" should be the last to receive it. Bye....

Clinical trials are still looking for participants to receive the vaccine and help answer questions such as if the virus can still be transmitted after vaccination.

Oh, I didn't take it that way. Silly me. I should have realized it was tongue in cheek.

Add those folks who truly believe the virus is a hoax. Those are the folks who have not done their part to mitigate the spread of the virus.

I believe your count is off. When I was there on Thursday at 10:30 for the 10-11 slot there were exactly 26 cars in line with us (we counted) and 32+-2 or so in the 15 minute waiting zone. Most of all the cars we tied looking at including mine had 2 people and that was only one of the 4 1hr scheduled Thursday slots. So that one hour alone was likely 80 to 90 people and they had 3 other fully filled 1 hr slots that day. The next day I called the Sumter County DOH regarding shot #2 and she said there were only around 320 vaccines available for all of Thursday (and she said there were over 35,000 website hits to try to get one) which makes sense using my "visual guesstimate" of 80-90 in the 10-11 AM slot. Still not a lot nut a lot more than 140 on Thursday. As for 2nd shot, she said they will call you to setup an appointment but that process or location hasn't been finalized yet. She said it should be 2 to 2.5 weeks before they start calling folks for shot #2 appointments.