1. I’ll probably get the vaccine. I get the flu shot every year. I see no difference btwn the Covid Vaccine and the Flu shot. The J&J injects you with live virus (like a flu shot) and the other ones just inject you with the non infectious part of the virus so either way your own body knows what to do. I see no reason not to get it and it doesn’t freak me out.

2. I don’t fricking understand why you cannot make an appointment with your doctor like a civilized person and go to get it. I would pay the copay to have a place to sit while I wait, and to know what time I’m getting the shot so I can plan my life.

3. Currently, in Louisiana (not sure about other places) if you’re under 65 - you have to have some kind of “preexisting” problem to get it (in some cases just being fat, or being a smoker is enough to qualify). I’m not fat or a smoker and I’m under 65. Nonetheless one of my friends keeps insisting I should try to get it.

I signed up at BR General Mid City yesterday. I was informed by the lady who took my appointment (alleged) that there weren’t many ppl so I should be in and out. She told me that I bc I have Hashimotos disease (which is a ridiculously common thyroid problem) that is an autoimmune condition that I qualified. I had no interest in taking a vaccine from some old person who was panicked and wanted it - but I relented. I figured - i have Nothing going on- I’ll just get the stupid shot.

4. When I arrived I had to fill out a form. It did not say autoimmune condition- it said immunocompromised like if you were undergoing chemotherapy or had AIDS. I felt very uncomfortable and left my underlying condition blank.

5. Worse, I got there 10 minutes before my scheduled “appointment” and there were at least 20 people ahead of me and no fricking where to sit. In a hospital waiting area. It was cold in there. I was informed it “wouldn’t be long” and they were taking ppl in batches of 10. I waited 45 minutes, all the while nobody called any batch of 10, yet more people kept coming.

Finally at my 50 minute mark they called 10 ppl. I was 20 ppl down on the list. I left. The lady said There was only one set of ppl left before my group. I informed her that I can count. It was 45 minutes at least for them to do one set of 10. Then there was a second round of 10’people that just went in. And I was behind the 3rd round of 10 ppl. So thus, it would be 90 minutes before I got this stupid shot for a virus if I got that I would survive.

I made them take me off the list and I left.

6. This entire experience- them allowing me to get “free” medical care (and they ask you for your insurance card which is even stupider) based on a just say you have a condition so you can hurry up and wait in line standard; combined with a cattle call, a long line and no fricking where to sit - have made me ever more convinced that socialized medicine would wreck our healthcare system.

I would never go to a free fricking doctor because there is nothing I loathe more than standing in a line. “Free” Healtcare would result in me Paying exorbitant taxes to subsidize the doctor that I will ultimately pay Xtra to to avoid the line.

7. When I can get the shot from my own doctor at a scheduled time, I will get it.

The End.