I turned 75 the day AFTER they opened it up for me. Could not log in to VAMS because I wasn't yet of age. Logged in the next morning, and had no trouble. Found a place convenient to me that had openings for like 5 weeks later. Made an appointment. A few days later, I get a text that my appointment has been canceled, and I should make another. Log back in, look at the same location, and now I can get a much sooner appointment. And 20 minutes after I make the appointment, it was canceled. Log back in, and find a different outlet that had appointments available for the next day! Grabbed one up. Next morning, I get out of the shower, getting ready to leave for the appointment, and see the message notification blinking on my phone. Yep, 45 minutes before the appointment, it was canceled.
Said the hell with VAMS. Used the Hartford Health app on my phone, made an appointment for a week or so later at St. V's in Bpt, and got the first shot. 2nd shot was scheduled before I left there. In the meantime, they opened it up for my wife's age group, and she couldn't get it through the Hartford Health app, but then went through VAMS and had no problem. Her second shot is set in a couple weeks.
But I think it's getting tougher now and will get much, much tougher in the near future. because Lamont eliminated the non-age based categories (except for teachers, which was entirely to placate the teachers unions). They are adding another 5 year age group every three weeks. Don't these idiots realize that the way they are doing it, each age group is progressively larger? 3 weeks was too short for the over 75 crowd. So there were plenty of 75+ geezers left waiting and they added the larger group of 70-75 geezers in training to the mix. And how many of them are still on the list now, and they added an even bigger group. And so on. It's the equivalent of 5 lanes having to merge into one lane during rush hour -- then a mile down the road, there's another 10 lanes trying to join the party.
