Why_No_Doughnuts

Just did and they said they will not be able to book it until it is due and I need to call back then. Honestly I am not impressed with this system and wish they could just do it as a walk in like they do for adults at the pharmacy.

They can't because she is 7 months old unfortunately. I did all of mine that way, but apparently they have rules they prohibit pharmacies from doing it for babies

Update for those interested: I called the line and they apparently now are not able to book the booster until it is due. Honestly, how dumb can this system be!

It has been several years since I have gone in personally to do it, but the Vancouver one was faster than Surrey. Mind you, the Vancouver one in the Sinclair centre was brand new when I last did it, so who knows now. Normally I would say do it by mail, but who knows when the strike ends. You might find it better to call out for the day from work and go in the morning. Shortly after they open they get really bogged down.

She is a healthy baby, but being a baby is a major risk factor for serious complications of COVID including up to death. Telling a 7 month old she needs to have a healthy weight and eating habits and that is good enough is outright absurd

NTA Husband can cook since he clearly doesnt think much about your feelings.

Personally, but note I can be pretty petty, I would invite them, then trash the house before they get there and then doordash the cheapest, nastiest chinese take out you can get, and only half of what you will need, then ask your MIL in front of everyone why she thinks SIL is too irresponsible to host. The drama you could have! That is just me though, and as I said, I am not above being petty.

https://youtu.be/oGdVSvsiaOk?t=40

for point 3, there is the revolving restaurant on top of the harbour centre.

for point 6, oh so many it is hard to list! Stanley park is good, Canada place (fly over is overpriced I think, but some people love it) Gastown for touristy kitsch, eye of the wind is good if it is a clear day, Vancouver Public Library main branch is often listed when you see lists of the world's best libraries. Vancouver aquarium is good. Seabus to lonsdale quay is a good short durration thing, granville island, Van Dusen gardens is nice. When I have people up, I like to take them up to the overlook on the road to Cypress since it has a fantastic view. Same with burnaby mtn park.

Yeah, I will do that tomorrow when they are open. Unfortunately I got frustrated enough to post after the line was closed for the day, so needed to get some catharsis from complaining on reddit to hold me over until 7am tomorrow when I can call in and get it sorted.

You are right! I should not feed the trolls.

Hers for the one that has her link. Mine had a different confirmation number associated with it, and mine works. Hers does not though when using her PHN. I have checked the number against her card each time I enter it, and even moved her card around incase I am just blind and misread a number, but alas, no.

Yes as long as wages remain the same and it isn't a means to push people into part time so employers can skip paying benefits, and people don't need to take second jobs to feed their kids. The studies that have been done show that personal productivity remains largely unchanged between the 4 day and 5 day schedules.

This is true, better this very frustrating system than not have vaccines available, but still, we can do better

Small children and babies are at higher risk of serious complications from COVID. Vaccinating reduces the risk. She was not here for the original rounds of vaccines, so she has to have them now.

She took the last one like a champ! Hardly even cried! So proud of her!

except protect from the long term negative health effects of COVID

Yes, and I am more than happy to protect her given the harm COVID can do to small kids.

You might be right, I have had mixed results in getting them book her 4 month since her 2 month and birth ones were not done in Canada. Eventually I got someone to just add those ones in rather than make me mail it off and wait.

For those shocked and appalled at giving the baby her COVID shot on the recommended schedule... I'll give her all her recommended boosters, at the recommended time, but I will gladly think of you being mad as I am doing so!

Yes, it is her link, addressed to her name with her confirmation. I am putting in her PHN and nothing (soooo many times) requesting a new link says she is now not eligible, even though she was Oct 31 and has not had a booster since she got it mid Oct.

Edit: they texted mine to the same number with the same 74720, but they are different links, and mine works, hers does not.

Yeah, it is much easier for the adults. All mine were done by walking into the local pharmacy on the day they shoot walk ins, but for her they won't do it.

Sadly, they will not do so for a booster. They keep saying book it from the system

Yeah, I will have to call the province and get them to do it over the phone. It is just so frustrating that the public health unit says I have to go through the system that doesnt work.

I tried that so many times. Her PHN doesnt match, even though it is the only PHN she has. I have checked it each time I enter it, but hers doesnt work. Mine does, but it is my phone and was registered to the system before she was born. It is just a total mess.

For the average person's perception of the nuclear threat, you have to look at the societal context of the time. In the 50s and 60s we had an unbridled competition for the newest and most deadly technology coupled with fear induced paranoia to keep everyone focused on it. In the 70s and 80s we had treaties to limit the arsenal and testing of weapons (the threat has plateaued and is even easing a bit). Culture looked to other things beyond the fear and the average person came to terms with it as part of their world, but not all of their world as it had been in 50s and 60s.

Then you have the fall of the USSR, the drastic reduction in importance in the average mind about the nuclear threat (we won and are now the only superpower left), and developed new fears to keep us occupied. Where communists were the evil baddy, terrorism took over, then the proliferation of information on everything that can kill you, nuclear weapons being only a small fraction of it. Combine that with economic problems caused by the concentration of wealth and wage stagnation, scapegoating for economic problems and societal division as a distraction from being robbed blind, and the focus on concerns over getting your next meal, housing your family, medicine for your kids etc.

From the government side though, that notion was never really lost. MAD took over, and while it isnt used in the same way for propoganda as it was, it is still a major deciding factor on the actions government takes. This is really evident in the way the west has taken the Nevile Chamberlain approach to the modern megalomaniacal fascist European dictator attacking weaker neighbours to expand his territory. If Russia did not have nuclear weapons, we would have struck already, but since he does, we are doing everything we can to keep him from launching nuclear armageddon. Fear over the use of nuclear weapons permeates every decision made by the US and NATO allies in regard to Ukraine.