Jackson Jambalaya

WHEN and WHERE will vaccines be offered to anyone over 65???

I’m glad we have Tate. I look at the mess other states are having and Tate is doing a great job

I ain't saying anything good about the governor or any other state official

BUT, yesterday, I got my first Moderna shot at Oxford . . . in the snow. It was a drive-through format, manned by National Guard personnel. Were they local? Do not know. Actually seemed to be from closer to Memphis and perhaps a medical unit. Cars were from all over. The guy ahead of me had Washington County tag.

Long and the short of it -- all went smoothly. In and out in about an hour and forty minutes. I brought a book and thanked God for the chance to immunize my 76 year old butt. Appointment was pushed back due to snow. Real heroes so far as I am concerned.

There for a second it was as though I wasn't in Mississippi. It was, kinda like, dare I say it? It was almost like Alabama.

Vaccine appointments are now available for 65+. I just signed up for Canton next week.

What fool, other than family, is celebrating the governor. You still CAN NOT call a health department of governor's office telephone number to inquire about scheduling. But, by lowering the flag, he obviously wants to be back on CNN with a new sport-coat. Clown!

Trying to sign up now since the drugs I'm on affect the immune system pretty drastically. Can't get through on the signup page. This sucks.

Literally everyone in MS has an underlying condition. This is about to be a shit show, much more so than it already is.

4:00...So...you brought a book. Think how convenient it would have been had you been able to get the shot in the town where you live. Hope you enjoyed the book.

I got my vaccine at the drive through in Canton. Entire process was about 20 min which included the 15 min observation. Can’t say enough good things about the Gov and the National Guard. Very impressive operation.

#TateReeves2023!

@ 4:16, yeah, I brought a book, yeah, I'm happy as a clam to have gotten the shot. Yeah, it's a shit show but not nearly as bad as being intubated, or losing a leg, or kidney function, or infecting my grandkids.

Do the right thing for a change, get on your knees and thank God you live in the USA and that the vaccine is available and that people are getting it and that young men and women are standing out in the snow to see that old geezers like me get to live a while longer.

Quit whining. The universe owes you/me nothing.

I wish I could convey to you how sick chronic whining spoiled Americans make me. Shame on you.

Another stumble. Can't sign-up online or telephones. How long will we have to wait? 2%, what a joke. Not a job well done.

Late 80-year old in-laws vaccinated today in Tupelo - wife took them and said the process was very smooth with plenty of help including National Guard soldiers at the site. Just got thru the MSDH website and scheduled her vaccine for next week - she is under 65 but immunocompromised. The website was very slow and kicked me off a few times, but persistence pays off.

" wants to be back on CNN with a new sport-coat."

Well It's worked for the current Mayor of Jackson, ( son of former Mayor . . . Edwin Finley Taliaferro ).

Seems Tate is just following the left's game plan.

Good for governor Reeves !

Not so fast Tater Tot! I know of many nursing homes that have not even received a date for resident and employee vaccinations. The administrator at the home where my mother resides contacted the contracted pharmacy, Walgreens, to inquire about scheduling and the representative purportedly responded, "We have you listed as an assisted living facility." Absolutely ridiculous! Get a clue, Tater!

Amazing how so many people who said Covid was no big deal are running to get vaccinations. I'm glad more people came to their senses.

Anyone trying to get an appointment on the website needs to be persistent. It took three hours of trying but I finally got mine done. If you live in the Philadelphia/Meridian area there are a quite a few slots showing up as available before next Friday. I actually got one for this week, but I would expect them to fill up rather quickly now that half the population qualifies.

Apparently UMMC was completely unprepared for the volume since the website doesn’t work. I get all the way to an appointment day and time, then error message. So it’s great that we are allowing 65+ folks to be eligible to get the vaccine, but it sad that the IT department can’t have a website that actually works.

@5:57 PM, so that is Reeves' fault? Get a clue.

5:04 I can't sign up via the web address supplied either.
I don't think it accepting age 65 or older yet.
Hasn't been up date by state tech workers yet.
Left hand doesn't know what right hand is doing.

Left hand - Tater Tot
Right hand - State tech workers

Still just a cold with a 99% recovery rate. Go for it. I'm waiting for something real to hit us.

Wuhan Flu
Kung Flu
and now....
Chinese Take-Out (Because the shit will literally take you out)

5:57, get your facts straight. Tater has no control over nursing homes. Walgreens was given the contract to vaccinate nursing homes by the feds. Good old capitalism. Walgreens is the one with no plan after accepting the job.

Not sure why anyone is cheering for the governor or Dobbs.

There actually is a contest right now to see who the best governor is. The best governor is the one who gets his (or her) population vaccinated the fastest, starting with the older age citizens. It is a contest to see (literally) who is the best at saving lives. Because the faster you vaccinate the elderly, the more lives you save.

There are many trackers now on the states. The two that I looked at tonight place Tate as #44 of 50.

You want our state to be in the lowest 10-percentile? I think that is awful.

All this yackety-yack and not one single response to the request for a number to call. All these people saying they got the shot or signed up or got put on a list....what the hell number is there to call? Since nobody can post a contact number, I think you're all lying. How many times can Tate's staff post here anyway?

PS: It's CVS with the nursing home contract.

Signed up for vaccine at 5:00AM this morning. We live in Madison and will have to drive an hour and a half each way to get it due to all the local facilities being booked. Could be worse...we'll take it.

Good luck on getting an appointment.

Hey, Governor, where is access to the appointments? The website doesn't even open.

"Apparently UMMC was completely unprepared for the volume since the website doesn’t work. I get all the way to an appointment day and time, then error message. So it’s great that we are allowing 65+ folks to be eligible to get the vaccine, but it sad that the IT department can’t have a website that actually works."

My wife has gotten both of her shots as scheduled through UMMC. She had no problem scheduling them, and UMMC had no problem delivering them as scheduled.

Is there a schedule posted for the various groups? We know now that 65 and older may get theirs. Who's next? first responders? 60+?

For those folks who want to congratulate the governor and think Dr. Dobbs is doing such an outstanding job, let me remind you that they have had since last August to plan for this. Last August.

The website is not working. Neighbor, over 60 and with cancer, has been on the computer website since early this am. She is now informed that she is #4003 in line. To communicate with the scheduling center. After spending hours waiting.

Frontline healthcare worker got dose of Moderna at Trustmark Park. Cannot schedule a second dose.

As a reminder, after the first dose, you are still not fully protected. Israel announced today that hundreds of people who have received one dose are now in the hospital with Covid.

Another reminder to seniors: Neither the governor nor Dobbs has pushed healthcare facilities to require the vaccine as a condition of employment. The vaccine denial rate at some facilities exceeds 20%.

What all this means is that the vulnerable (those over 60) will continue to die for lack of vaccination.

More cheers for Tate and Dr. Dobbs?

More fake posters saying they or the wife got the shot but not a single one who can state who they contacted at what number to manage scheduling. Not one. Carry on.

@7:54 There was a schedule posted at the Department of Health website, but it got completely messed up by the recommendation from the feds yesterday to open things up to those with underlying health conditions. That group was originally after teachers and first responders, but they got bumped up.

At this point there isn't anything certain. Very likely it will be teachers, first responders, public transportation drivers, and front-line workers like cashiers that open up next. Maybe single out teachers first so we can get schools running again.

@5:51 I signed up on the website last night. It took hours of refreshing and starting over but I finally got through. Co-worker this morning told me they now have a queue set up to make things more reliable, but she was number 4,000 in line.

whoever designed the website to book vaccination appointments is totally incompetent. You get to the end of the questionnaire and you get an error message; this happens over and over and finally you are booted. it seems everyone is a shithole asleep at the wheel.

I just tried to schedule a free, drive-through vaccination & was placed on a wait list to get a response - I was number 8,081 on the list - I gave up, even after being told to keep the window open so I could see my place in line in real time. Nevermind. I'll wait until my next regular doctor's appointment to get vaccinated.

Be patient. The online portal is hosted on a Commodore 64.

Excellent work to everyone here who got the vaccine! You were just injected with an untested substance that Pfizer specifically asked for (and received) immunity from litigation if you are injured or killed by it.

Just waited 2 hours in the wait queue to only find out there are no available appointments in the state. The next to last page shows that a couple clinics have appointments available but when you click on them, the next box states there's no availability. Why the MSDH can't put on there home page that there's "no appointments available try later" is beyond me. I guess it's more fun to waste 2 hours to find that out----Agree with poster, we had several months to prepare for this and it seems the first thought of how to distribute the shot crossed their minds as the first box of vaccine rolled in. I guess it's a lot easier to act pissed and throw hissy fits because people won't wear masks.---Poor planning all around

For the ignorant dipsticks saying 5:57 needs to get it straight, Pudgy Tot's administration, specifically the Department of Health, provided the list of nursing homes to Walgreens. That list was incorrect. Thus, yes, it's a Tater flub.

1:58 It is still many orders of magnitude safer than getting COVID. Many millions of people vaccinated with extremely few adverse reactions. COVID has a 1-in-200 chance of killing you and a 1-in-20 chance of putting you in the hospital. Even the most common serious effect of vaccination, anaphylactic shock, only happens in 1-in-100,000 cases and so far all have been able to be treated with epinephrine.

Can you show me a vaccine that had been proven to cause adverse effects a month or more after being given? Even the extremely rare neurological problems that can occur from any vaccine show up relatively quickly.

You simply can't compare a vaccine given once with medication like the COX inhibitors that caused severe disorders after being given consistently over a long period of time.