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Bernard

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  1. That sounds more like bartering than volunteering. Bernard
  2. No verification at all at HEB. Bernard
  3. PSA: I'm told Sam Club has a bunch of appointments available. You have to register to get to their scheduler page. Bernard
  4. Yep. Been there. Page 1 is main scheduler page. If you see a location you like with available slots, click it. Page 2 is the date/time selector. Most of the time it says "There are no available time slots" by the time you get here. If you CAN select a date/time, you move on to.. Page 3 where you actually get to enter your name, phone#, email, age, etc. It asks for your insurance info, but you can skip that if you don't have it handy. There's a 10 minute countdown clock to complete this page. When you're done here, you have a confirmed appointment. I've had Page 1 on auto-refresh every 13 seconds for the past 4-5 hours. No big blocks of appointments are coming though today, at least not yet. Seems like the slots popping up today are cancellations of earlier scheduled appointments. Slots are gone is seconds. Most of the time, by the time you get through to Page 2 it's already booked. Other times, it tells you to select a time/date, but even then, it's already gone before you can finish. If you can get to Page 3, you are golden. I scored one appointment for a friend today. Gulfgate HEB in Houston. These one off appointments are literally gone in a matter of seconds. Bernard
  5. Just nabbed a slot for one of my mom's blue haired friends at HEB in Huntsville on Friday. Bernard
  6. I was able to score three appointments yesterday for two friends and myself at HEB's in Seguin, El Campo and Wharton. We all received the first dose of Moderna today. 🙂 Bernard
  7. I'm no demographer, but I assume they are counted in this line: "About 7.24% of the population were Hispanic or Latinos of any race." Bernard
  8. Hood County Demographics per Wikipedia... As of the census[8] of 2000, 41,100 people were residing in the county. 94.77% White, 0.33% African American, 0.82% Native American, 0.31% Asian, 2.44% from other races, and 1.32% from two or more races. About 7.24% of the population were Hispanic or Latinos of any race. Yep. Looks like a real melting pot you got there in Hood County. It's hard for 41,200 residents to be racist when there's only 135 black folks in the whole county. 🙂 Bernard
  9. I thought it was just a church for people who don't own any nice clothes. Bernard
  10. Update: the website monitoring software works!!! I have an appointment for the Moderna vaccine at 11 AM tomorrow at the HEB Pharmacy in Seguin. The HEB website was changed about 10:15 AM for some slots in Cleburne. I was away from my phone. Gone in under 5 minutes. The site changed again about 12:35 PM. I was there within 10 seconds of getting my notification (up to 5 minutes delayed). Said there were 18 slots open in Seguin. Clicked the link. GONE. Shit. Site changed back to no appointments 5 minutes later. Five minutes after that, Seguin opened up again with "a few slots remaining". This time: success. Bernard
  11. New strategy... I signed up for a free 7-day trail ($50/month later) at this service that monitors changes to webpages. https://www.wachete.com/ I think I have it set to monitor the HEB vaccine scheduler webpage every five minutes. It's supposed to send an email and phone app notification whenever there is a change to the webpage. Bernard
  12. Cloak Room / Qanon / Illuminati / Chinese Mask Industry: Masks are forever people. Didn't you get the memo? There will be a new strain we have to worry about by summer time. After that masks will be mandatory to save olds from the flu every winter. After that... Bernard
  13. Noah invented wine drinking and lived to be 950 years old. What more proof do you need of alcohol's greatness??? Bernard
  14. 75+ and teachers were in the CDC's recommendation for Phase 1B. Abbott is such a pandemic/vaccine/logistics expert he decided 65+ and fatties should be in Phase 1B as well. That's a big part of the problem. Phase 1B in Texas is too big. Bernard
  15. Looks like HEB has changed their MO. No longer pre-announcing when their reservation system will open. Now they say they will "open new appointment times immediately when our stores receive vaccine". So I guess that means I have to sit here and refresh the scheduler page constantly until some slots magically appear. Separately, the City of Houston scheduling portal seems to be shut down for the foreseeable future. Too many fast fingered crackers scooping up all the available slots five minutes after they get announced. City is now redirecting vaccine to other channels to better serve the technologically challenged among us. I'm the Harris County lottery now too, but so are a lot of others. Bernard
  16. https://houstonemergency.org/alerts/ 1. Download Everbridge app 2. Sign up for HoustonAlerts 3. Sign up for HoustonRecovers 4. Make sure your phone is set to allow push notifications from the app. This is the fastest way to get the alert. Other options are text and email, but they are slower and appointments go FAST. 1,600 appointments were snapped up in a couple minutes on Friday. Bernard
  17. Took my mom to the City of Houston drive through site at Delmar Stadium today. Couldn’t have been easier. In and out in 30 minutes. Never left the seat of my car. Quite pleased. Bernard
  18. The providers are happy to let some people move to the front of the line. It’s official policy, not just an rogue employee. Just about the time I secured my mom’s appointment via the City of Houston alert map, a doc I know at a local hospital sent me a link for friends and family to sign up for the vaccine. The link included a definition of “immediate family” that I didn’t fit, but he insisted I could sign up that way anyway. Bernard
  19. Eat shit, HEB!!!!! I got my mom a vaccine appointment via City of Houston at Delmar Stadium drive through site for for Tuesday 1/26. 🙂 Signed up for alerts from Everbridge app; subcategory HoustonAlerts; subcategory HoustonRecovers or some such shit... I’m kinda drunk now. 🙂 App alerted me at 4PM today about 1,600 vaccination slots open for next week. I slammed my brakes and stopped on the shoulder of I-45 S near Beltway 8. Greenspoint, represent!!!! A few taps later, appointment confirmed. A few moments later, all 1,600 slots were filled. Bernard
  20. When do we get all Americans over 65 vaccinated? At that point the number of deaths should drop by 80%. Bernard
  21. Failed again. I was refreshing my browser fast and furiously just before 9 AM. At a bout 8:59:20 (per time.is) the "not accepting appointments for Phase 1b" notice changed to "Check Availability" link. I clicked on that link and the scheduler page appeared, but it said "no appointments available". I refreshed that page constantly for five minutes but nothing changed. Frustrated, I stopped refreshing for a minute or two. Then refreshed again to see 42 slots available at one location and 35(?) slots available at another location. Clicked both of those links and was told no appointments available. 😞 Bernard
  22. I'll be refreshing my browser at 9AM. $500 bounty to any fast fingered Surly who can get through the HEB portal on my behalf. If you care to participate, PM me for my phone number, if you get though at 9:00:01 AM, you can call me and I'll give you whatever deets you need to enter in their system. First caller wins. Bernard
  23. I'm ready. I'd have my mom in a car in 30 minutes and I'd drive her anywhere in Texas (or farther) if I knew a vaccine was waiting for our arrival. The question is how to find out where it's actually available. The appointments for the 400 doses available at HEB in Wharton were gone in <30 seconds this AM. Bernard
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