[LINK] The Australian COVID vaccination booking platform

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2021-03-18 at 08:50 +1100, jwhit at internode.on.net wrote:
> from what I'm reading this morning, all you would have gotten was a
> referral to your local clinic booking system that was likely not
> connected yet or to call them and then find out they aren't taking
> bookings, you aren't an existing patient so they won't ever take you,
> or they don't have any vaccine so call back in a month.
> Yes, it's that bad.

In my case, you can tick off:
- called local clinic
- not connected yet
- they aren't taking bookings
- they don't have any vaccine
- call back in a month

The clinic says they have had an order in since it was possible to put
one in.

I didn't get a referral because the booking system clagged after asking
me twenty questions, displaying a little red box with a cryptic error
code and saying I should try later. Shades of CensusFail.

I'm interested in finding out what will happen when I don't tell them
my ethnic or language background. "Well, you can not vaccinate me,
leaving me a threat to myself and others and a potential burden on the
health system either way, OR you can vaccinate me. Your call."

Hopefully it's optional.
 
Regards, K.

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