santacruz skier
Angel Diva
Northstar (a Vail resort) has an ESTIMATED closing date of April 11. Same with Heavenly.... I have seen it extended in past years though.
I've got some serious vaccine jealousy FOMO too. I've seen so many people here and on FB getting vaccinated, and while I'm glad for them, I'm still at least a month or two away as a grocery worker. At this rate, I basically feel like I'm going to be one of the last to be vaccinated despite being in a job that has constant and close interaction with others for the entire shift.
I've got some serious vaccine jealousy FOMO too. I've seen so many people here and on FB getting vaccinated, and while I'm glad for them, I'm still at least a month or two away as a grocery worker. At this rate, I basically feel like I'm going to be one of the last to be vaccinated despite being in a job that has constant and close interaction with others for the entire shift.
Keystone is also closing April 4, isn't it, @skibum4ever?
I don't know what direction which mountains face, but Copper long-timers told me that by mid-April Copper degrades fast, even with new snow. They said once the sun gets to a certain point, it just beats down on it. Maybe Keystone is the same way.
I basically feel like I'm going to be one of the last to be vaccinated despite being in a job that has constant and close interaction with others for the entire shift.
That is so wrong. And vaccinating front-line workers doesn't just protect those workers; it protects the public! In NY, teachers have been vaccinated, but many states haven't prioritized them. So in many states, teachers don't feel safe going back to the classroom. If only there were enough vaccines to go around!
Remember when we were all sharing our secret testing sites? I guess we are making progress against this scourge.
Well, I now know what everyone is complaining about with the MA vaccine scheduling website. It just keeps crashing for me.. Before 8am I saw a slot at Gillette for today, but by the time I input all of my dad’s information it was gone. Now it just crashes. Horrible that this is the best we’ve got . Also no idea on when the pharmacies update because they are all full.
Anyone else having better luck?
I felt your pain this morning! I do have a test scheduled for about 4 o’clock on Thursday afternoon in downtown Providence. I saw this morning that there was one appointment for today (new since last night) left out here in the suburbs. By the time I logged in it was gone. I saw there were three openings downtown tomorrow. And that would move me up to days so I could get back to Vermont eventually. But those were gone by the time I signed in! And yes each time you have to enter the information from scratch. It’s not that I have to change the date, by now it’s just a point of interest. So I finally get what you all are going through. But obviously less since I do have an appointment. If I were trying to get an appointment for a relative under those conditions I would be insane!
Yes, there is software designed to handle large volumes of users. But has to be paired with appropriate hardware. Developing and tweaking such a system takes months or years, not weeks, even with a very well managed team of seasoned IT professionals.I had been thinking, "It's just too many people for too few vaccines," but I read someone complaining that there are computer programs capable of handling huge numbers of people trying to get concert tickets at the same time. Is this true, tech folks? Are the numbers similar? and why are government websitesalwaysso often such duds?
I had been thinking, "It's just too many people for too few vaccines," but I read someone complaining that there are computer programs capable of handling huge numbers of people trying to get concert tickets at the same time. Is this true, tech folks? Are the numbers similar? and why are government websitesalwaysso often such duds?
I had been thinking, "It's just too many people for too few vaccines," but I read someone complaining that there are computer programs capable of handling huge numbers of people trying to get concert tickets at the same time. Is this true, tech folks? Are the numbers similar? and why are government websitesalwaysso often such duds?
I guess I wonder, couldn't the government have tapped into some of these existing company's systems to use for this purpose?
Coordinating the efforts of volunteers is probably more of an effort than the technical programming. Plus no one is likely to complain or even realize if there are missing sites because CovidWA is much better than nothing.Speaking of concerts: In WA, a tech guy made a website that uses the kind of bots that ticket scalpers do. It looks at every provider (pharmacies, hospitals, etc) offering shots and tells you what is available, so that people don't have to check a bazillion different websites themselves:
https://www.covidwa.com/
Note that it was a private sector guy that did this. And he says it wasn't so hard, that it only took a few days...that's still likely a few days that state IT employees probably didn't have (and would they have the tools and permissions?).
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl...ne-hunters-are-trying-to-fix-a-broken-system/
Great news! You would think that any side effects are the worst part of the vaccine, but instead it is turning out to be the appointment process.