Just sharing my 3rd dose experience: I went to the Regional booking site yesterday. They have a neat queuing feature so rather than the site just slowing down, it puts people in a queue and sends them periodic updates on their estimated time remaining. Unfortunately, if one reaches the head of the queue and misses a fairly short window, one has to start over. I kept getting distracted so missed my chance several times. As a result I didn’t book until late afternoon and my appointment will be January 3. On the plus side, that means they're booking tons of appointments. I'll be interested to see the statistics on uptake.
On a related note, I just don't see how we can continue our “be nice” policy of giving people the option of taking expensive cure rather than cheap prevention for Covid. We just don’t have the nursing staff for it. There is a simple way of massively reducing our medical staff shortage: the treatment for Covid is the vaccine. Period (except medical counterindications). No vaccine, no post-infection treatment other than minimal palliative. We don’t give people the choice of going for the gold-plated option in other areas of medicine: they get what the system says they get. I’m just glad I don’t have to make this decision (or pretend publicly that it's unavoidable). Maybe I’m wrong; I don’t know, but I’ve heard bad things about Omicron’s transmissibility.
On a related note, I just don't see how we can continue our “be nice” policy of giving people the option of taking expensive cure rather than cheap prevention for Covid. We just don’t have the nursing staff for it. There is a simple way of massively reducing our medical staff shortage: the treatment for Covid is the vaccine. Period (except medical counterindications). No vaccine, no post-infection treatment other than minimal palliative. We don’t give people the choice of going for the gold-plated option in other areas of medicine: they get what the system says they get. I’m just glad I don’t have to make this decision (or pretend publicly that it's unavoidable). Maybe I’m wrong; I don’t know, but I’ve heard bad things about Omicron’s transmissibility.