I got my first dose early April, which was pretty late looking at the numbers. I found this vaccination site because a friend of mine from Nebraska found some New York representative talking about this particular site on Twitter. Guess it got a lot of reshares and trended or something. I signed up and got a slot many weeks in the future. (At the time, the major pharmacies didn't have any sort of working sign-up system. I thought about writing an elaborate scraper to immediately notify me of a slot, but decided that was unethical and didn't. Also, very boring.)

For my third dose, that was last month. I think I signed up for my ultimately-canceled appointment early December targeting a date before Christmas. I ended up getting the shot in the first week of January.

I felt like I had to devote a lot of mental energy to getting the vaccine much later than everyone else, looking at statistics. I totally believe that other people said "I like the vaccine, but fuck this shit" and that's why they're not vaccinated.

fwiw, I put myself on the King County (seattle, wa area) booster waiting list months ago and only got an email the other day that my turn was up. They wanted me to drive ~30 minutes out of town for a booster, and I don't have a car.

The situation is not great. I have no idea how a poor person would navigate this system.