[Genuine Realist]

I was just notified by my employer that they will not have vaccine for me until late January. I see COVID positive patients every week. They don’t expect enough vaccine for all of the county medical workers until the end of January.

Akiddoc's post surprises me, as I am personally aware of MD's getting the vaccine who are not front line providers. My daughter in general surgery was offered the vaccine in Pasadena, but declined, as she wants to see a little more experience with it. (She is by no means an anti-vaxxer, quite the contrary, and her attitude is shared by a surprising number of other docs.)

Getting to why I started this line, what interested me was not so much availability at Safeway, as the fact that THE major supermarket chain in northern California would actively solicit business of this type. I'm pretty good at awareness of what I know and what I don't. Safeway marketers are not dummies. Someone is seeing some utility in actively going after this business, which has no profit potential. Curious. Maybe it's simply to restore as much foot traffic as possible as soon as possible.

[Genuine Realist]

I was just notified by my employer that they will not have vaccine for me until late January. I see COVID positive patients every week. They don’t expect enough vaccine for all of the county medical workers until the end of January.

Akiddoc's post surprises me, as I am personally aware of MD's getting the vaccine who are not front line providers. My daughter in general surgery was offered the vaccine in Pasadena, but declined, as she wants to see a little more experience with it. (She is by no means an anti-vaxxer, quite the contrary, and her attitude is shared by a surprising number of other docs.)

Getting to why I started this line, what interested me was not so much availability at Safeway, as the fact that THE major supermarket chain in northern California would actively solicit business of this type. I'm pretty good at awareness of what I know and what I don't. Safeway marketers are not dummies. Someone is seeing some utility in actively going after this business, which has no profit potential. Curious. Maybe it's simply to restore as much foot traffic as possible as soon as possible.