Admiral Beez
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Got my haircut today, on the lawn out front, lol. First haircut since Nov 2020.
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Johnny Au
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So many households nowadays have switched to cutting their own hair instead of going to a barbershop. It helps that good barber kits (for home use) are very inexpensive.
afransen
Senior Member
I'm getting close, as well.
Admiral Beez
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JMFC, the province announces that everyone 18 and up in hotspots can get a vaccine, so I go on https://vaccineto.ca/ to book for my two >18 kids, wait in line for 20 mins and then click on each of the three locations, and then have to click on two weeks of dates for each of the three locations. So now I've clicked on over 40 possibilities, and each says 'no appointment available". This is just a ridiculous system!
In what IT person's head does the below make any sense from an end users' experience? You ask me to choose from the highlighted dates, but your database already knows that none of these dates have available appointments. But you make me click on each one in the hope that maybe there is one. And don't ask me to choose a location if your database already knows the location has no appointments!
Is there anyone here on database and website design that can explain to me why it would be so difficult for the system to instead ONLY show me the available locations and dates and let me choose from them. That's how the airlines book their tickets online, they don't show you all the possible flights and then have you click on each one to see if there are any seats available. No, they already know if there are seats available and tell you at the front end, not when you're already deep into the process.
In what IT person's head does the below make any sense from an end users' experience? You ask me to choose from the highlighted dates, but your database already knows that none of these dates have available appointments. But you make me click on each one in the hope that maybe there is one. And don't ask me to choose a location if your database already knows the location has no appointments!
Is there anyone here on database and website design that can explain to me why it would be so difficult for the system to instead ONLY show me the available locations and dates and let me choose from them. That's how the airlines book their tickets online, they don't show you all the possible flights and then have you click on each one to see if there are any seats available. No, they already know if there are seats available and tell you at the front end, not when you're already deep into the process.
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Richard White
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I am trying to book on the provincial site and after an hours wait I got this. I cannot even select a date.
Admiral Beez
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I've now clicked on the bottom link here.
I'm now in some new queue, says more than one hour wait. Thank goodness I have three screens going here on my mad scientist workstation. Oh and I tried to call the 1888 number above, it just says you've called the covid line, we're busy, call back later, click.
City of Toronto Mass Immunization Clinics
If you are a Toronto resident who meets age-based criteria for vaccination, you can also book COVID-19 vaccination appointments online at a City of Toronto operated clinic.I'm now in some new queue, says more than one hour wait. Thank goodness I have three screens going here on my mad scientist workstation. Oh and I tried to call the 1888 number above, it just says you've called the covid line, we're busy, call back later, click.
Richard White
Senior Member
I am going to book through the City of Toronto website. I work near MTCC and live near STC. Far more practical than trying to go to some City Operated clinic in the boonies (compared to where I live and work)
Admiral Beez
Superstar
Trying that now https://www.toronto.ca/home/covid-19/covid-19-protect-yourself-others/covid-19-vaccines/
Nope, it just bounces you to the same provincial site https://covid-19.ontario.ca/book-vaccine/
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AlvinofDiaspar
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Waiting in line at the provincial portal - there are about 150K people ahead in the virtual queue. This will take awhile!
AoD
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Admiral Beez
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Richard White
Senior Member
I have given up hope and will try to book later in the week.
DSC
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Ontario is reporting 3,436 COVID-19 cases, 16 deaths. Based on 33,179 tests. The seven-day average is down to 3,577 cases per day
Admiral Beez
Superstar
NYT says herd immunity is not going to happen https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/health/covid-herd-immunity-vaccine.html
Jonny5
Senior Member
Just book anywhere, if you can. Once you book, you get an email confirmation with a code you can use to instantly re-access the calendar to reschedule your appointment (there's no waiting in line to reschedule), and you can change both the location and the time as many times as you like, so you can keep going back and refreshing daily, or hourly, to see if there's anything new available because someone else rescheduled.
I started by booking the Toronto Congress Centre on May 20, then I went back to reschedule and got one at Yonge/Eglinton on May 15, then I went back again 30 minutes later and got the appointment moved to the Convention Centre on Front Street on May 14.
It's actually rather stupid, and a gamification of the process, but it's how it works.
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Richard White
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Yea I know but I have neither the time or the desire to book appointments across the city just to get a timeslot.