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Originally Posted by Maynard
Offering a bribe is just tacky, perhaps even illegal. Selling a spot in line is surely so. Get a local physician and work with them. Really should have been doing this already as good practice, but especially under these conditions. If your condition is actually a recognized risk factor they can help assure you get a shot sooner. Even the deepest 'anti-federal-bureaucracy' states are going to be implementing systems to get prioritized doses for at-risk people. Part of the problem is that desperate people sign up for every listing they can find, so those waiting lists are kind of inflated with fluff, and will move faster once things get a little more organized.
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In your idealistic world, what you've said may work.
But the reality is NO doctor has any pull with the current strict guidelines on who gets vaccinated. Trust me. When you have life threatening co-morbidities, you'll understand a whole lot better. While I won't go as far as bribing anyone for a spot or lead to a vaccine spot, I can understand the OP's desperation having 4 co-morbidities of my own.
This whole thing has been mismanaged and every government official should be held accountable. It's not as if the supplies just showed up overnight and they had to scramble to figure out logistics on getting the vaccines distributed. Most of them are hypocrites in criticizing the whole vaccine development process yet are failing miserably on the distribution part. At least the promises of having the vaccine out in less than a year has been met. You can't say the same with the distribution.
What should have happened is all groups from 1A, 1B, 1C, and 2 should have been registered. If a slot from 1A wasn't utilized, the next in line with 1B would be called up and so on. This would have gotten more vaccines out there and minimized the travesty of having unused doses thrown out which I feel if the real number is made public a huge riot/outrage would occur.