elevator Posted March 18, 2021 Report Share Posted March 18, 2021 We heard from friends that they had gone to Tonala yesterday morning and had the vaccine within three hours. After finding out the site was open until 9:00 pm, we drove 45 minutes to the place. It is all drive-up in your car. We got in line at 6:41 and had the shot at 8:50. I never left my car. I believe we showed 3-4 documents...my wife had them all. They had 300 or so student volunteers and it was incredible how smoothly the process went. As you approached the spot to get the shot the students were actually walking along with your car asking and answering questions. After getting the shot we were directed to a holding area...still in our car for 30 minutes to see if anyone had a reaction. Whole thing, soup to nuts was about four hours including the drive over and back. We had snacks in the car and a cooler. Listened to music and my wife and her friend played cards. They gave us a proof of vaccine card and took our phone #s and email to contact us for the second injection. Oh yeah, it was the Pfizer vaccine. 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngusMactavish Posted March 18, 2021 Report Share Posted March 18, 2021 Please, what three pieces of paper did they want? Did you have to be from Tonala? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojackson Posted March 18, 2021 Report Share Posted March 18, 2021 Glad to hear of your experience. A friend at the gym told me this morning he and his wife waited twelve hours yesterday in Chapala to receive their first vaccine of Sinovac. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elevator Posted March 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2021 Wife had the documents. I think we had to show three, folio printout (on-line at vaccine web site) and immigration card. I know they asked for our address. Don't know if the wife had to show proof. There are one or two more, which have appeared in other posts about vaccines. Best to have more than you need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mijo Posted March 19, 2021 Report Share Posted March 19, 2021 You have to be a resident of Tonola. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cedros Posted March 19, 2021 Report Share Posted March 19, 2021 13 hours ago, elevator said: We heard from friends that they had gone to Tonala yesterday morning and had the vaccine within three hours. After finding out the site was open until 9:00 pm, we drove 45 minutes to the place. It is all drive-up in your car. We got in line at 6:41 and had the shot at 8:50. I never left my car. I believe we showed 3-4 documents...my wife had them all. They had 300 or so student volunteers and it was incredible how smoothly the process went. As you approached the spot to get the shot the students were actually walking along with your car asking and answering questions. After getting the shot we were directed to a holding area...still in our car for 30 minutes to see if anyone had a reaction. Whole thing, soup to nuts was about four hours including the drive over and back. We had snacks in the car and a cooler. Listened to music and my wife and her friend played cards. They gave us a proof of vaccine card and took our phone #s and email to contact us for the second injection. Oh yeah, it was the Pfizer vaccine. Very civilized compared to El Chant vaccination site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyPanda Posted March 19, 2021 Report Share Posted March 19, 2021 8 hours ago, Mijo said: You have to be a resident of Tonola. No, I know at least two people who live here, not in Tonala, who went and got theirs. And as elevator just posted, they don't live there. Where did you hear this? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artsnob Posted March 19, 2021 Report Share Posted March 19, 2021 my friends did not have their curp info that is why they were turned away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakeside7 Posted March 19, 2021 Report Share Posted March 19, 2021 Consistent inconsistencies the MX experience. Why the most vulnerable member's of our society should have to wait hours and hours is deplorable . But wait you have a couple of folks on Facebook saying how wonderful of the authorise to hand out water, oranges etc..really Why not stagger the appointment time and limit the wait time, and save the expense of the fruits and water. I bet a significant number of these seniors will die shortly not because of the COVID but the wait time! Having the vaccine is just part of this exercise, how you administer the jab efficiency takes a lot Moore planing. Why the MX government did not sent a bunch of milatory people to the USA to observe what did work and did not work is a no brainer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanMexicali Posted March 19, 2021 Report Share Posted March 19, 2021 19 minutes ago, lakeside7 said: Consistent inconsistencies the MX experience. Why the most vulnerable member's of our society should have to wait hours and hours is deplorable . But wait you have a couple of folks on Facebook saying how wonderful of the authorise to hand out water, oranges etc..really Why not stagger the appointment time and limit the wait time, and save the expense of the fruits and water. I bet a significant number of these seniors will die shortly not because of the COVID but the wait time! Having the vaccine is just part of this exercise, how you administer the jab efficiency takes a lot Moore planing. Why the MX government did not sent a bunch of milatory people to the USA to observe what did work and did not work is a no brainer For over 2 years Mexico has endured the actions of the worst federal government in 20 years and you wonder why many things now are the way they were in Mexico 20 to 30 years ago? I don't wonder why at all because it is becoming increasingly easy to see why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafterbr Posted March 19, 2021 Report Share Posted March 19, 2021 You are very, very lucky to get the Pfizer vaccine. I fear all the people getting the Sinaloa vaccine will one day have to redo it. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyPanda Posted March 19, 2021 Report Share Posted March 19, 2021 1 hour ago, lakeside7 said: Consistent inconsistencies the MX experience. Why the most vulnerable member's of our society should have to wait hours and hours is deplorable . But wait you have a couple of folks on Facebook saying how wonderful of the authorise to hand out water, oranges etc..really Why not stagger the appointment time and limit the wait time, and save the expense of the fruits and water. I bet a significant number of these seniors will die shortly not because of the COVID but the wait time! Having the vaccine is just part of this exercise, how you administer the jab efficiency takes a lot Moore planing. Why the MX government did not sent a bunch of milatory people to the USA to observe what did work and did not work is a no brainer Ha. Have you people not been watching the US news over the last year? First the whole thing was atrociously handled for 10 months. Now they are still trying to catch up with proper procedure. To say Mexico should learn from that half-assed approach is so typically expat. 1 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha1 Posted March 19, 2021 Report Share Posted March 19, 2021 1 hour ago, rafterbr said: You are very, very lucky to get the Pfizer vaccine. I fear all the people getting the Sinaloa vaccine will one day have to redo it. I'm afraid you may be right! Covid: EU plans rollout of travel certificate before summer The vaccines should be approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). These currently include drugs developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, Oxford-AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson, but not Russia's Sputnik V or China's Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bisbee Gal Posted March 19, 2021 Report Share Posted March 19, 2021 1 hour ago, rafterbr said: You are very, very lucky to get the Pfizer vaccine. I fear all the people getting the Sinaloa vaccine will one day have to redo it. Cute slip of the tongue 🙃 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakeside7 Posted March 19, 2021 Report Share Posted March 19, 2021 2 hours ago, AndyPanda said: Ha. Have you people not been watching the US news over the last year? First the whole thing was atrociously handled for 10 months. Now they are still trying to catch up with proper procedure. To say Mexico should learn from that half-assed approach is so typically expat. How sad how very sad, let's kill the messenger regardless of the substance of the message. Please re read my first para :"what did work and did not work" The government can not work alone and needs the support of NGO and other volunteers .Good communication is essential 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtnMama Posted March 19, 2021 Report Share Posted March 19, 2021 From what I have been reading, vaccination NOB varies wildly by state. The Feds have issued guidelines but each state is still different. No longer doing general cattle calls but many appointment and vaccine protocalls are broken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyPanda Posted March 19, 2021 Report Share Posted March 19, 2021 27 minutes ago, lakeside7 said: How sad how very sad, let's kill the messenger regardless of the substance of the message. Please re read my first para :"what did work and did not work" The government can not work alone and needs the support of NGO and other volunteers .Good communication is essential Just a slight over-reaction there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudgirl Posted March 19, 2021 Report Share Posted March 19, 2021 1 hour ago, lakeside7 said: How sad how very sad, let's kill the messenger regardless of the substance of the message. Please re read my first para :"what did work and did not work" The government can not work alone and needs the support of NGO and other volunteers .Good communication is essential Seeing as how you are constantly kvetching about how things are in Mexico, this is just more of the same. Perhaps you think the Mexicans should get advice from Florida on how to only make vaccines available to areas that voted for your political party? 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakeside7 Posted March 19, 2021 Report Share Posted March 19, 2021 43 minutes ago, AndyPanda said: Just a slight over-reaction there. Maybe to "slightly " defense response Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakeside7 Posted March 19, 2021 Report Share Posted March 19, 2021 4 minutes ago, mudgirl said: Seeing as how you are constantly kvetching about how things are in Mexico, this is just more of the same. If you think things were so much better where you came from, I don't understand why you'd want to live here. Maybe because I am thinking like many of my Mexican friends from a similar social economic background, and not only your maid or Gardiner. Mexicans who love Mexico but despair at the continued lies,stealing and cheating government's these past 40-50 years Quite frankly my dear I don't understand why you are happy with the status quo! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudgirl Posted March 19, 2021 Report Share Posted March 19, 2021 10 minutes ago, lakeside7 said: Maybe because I am thinking like many of my Mexican friends from a similar social economic background, and not only your maid or Gardiner. Mexicans who love Mexico but despair at the continued lies,stealing and cheating government's these past 40-50 years Quite frankly my dear I don't understand why you are happy with the status quo! Your insinuation that the only Mexicans I associate with are my maid and gardener ( I have neither) and that I don't have Mexican friends of my socio-economic class, therefore know nothing about the changes Mexicans would also like, is ignorantly presumptuous. Just because someone doesn't find complaining about the state of things on a web forum to be a productive activity doesn't mean they accept the status quo and don't work for change. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyPanda Posted March 20, 2021 Report Share Posted March 20, 2021 There are some here who make unfounded statements, then have to defend them when called out, then cannot back out in any way and so begin the personal attacks. Those of us who got our vaccines in Chapala yesterday and today were happy to praise the whole thing, based on actual experience, and were not happy to have that experience denigrated with unfounded comments... comments that bypassed the experience completely in order to dump on Mexican methods as a whole. Another thread about being happy in Mexico stomped into the ground. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanMexicali Posted March 20, 2021 Report Share Posted March 20, 2021 2 hours ago, lakeside7 said: Maybe because I am thinking like many of my Mexican friends from a similar social economic background, and not only your maid or Gardiner. Mexicans who love Mexico but despair at the continued lies,stealing and cheating government's these past 40-50 years Quite frankly my dear I don't understand why you are happy with the status quo! The last 40-50 years LOL It was gradually getting better as far as efficiency, nice highways, government agencies were easier and faster to navagate through to get things done and then 2 1/2 years ago it degenerated back into an underfunded, under experienced, massive public waste of resources never seen before, incompetent government mess and will take 20 years to get back to the place it was heading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slainte39 Posted March 20, 2021 Report Share Posted March 20, 2021 1 hour ago, AndyPanda said: There are some here who make unfounded statements, then have to defend them when called out, then cannot back out in any way and so begin the personal attacks. Those of us who got our vaccines in Chapala yesterday and today were happy to praise the whole thing, based on actual experience, and were not happy to have that experience denigrated with unfounded comments... comments that bypassed the experience completely in order to dump on Mexican methods as a whole. Another thread about being happy in Mexico stomped into the ground. It´s the same couple of chronic complainers that show up everywhere they can, to complain. Must be a real joy to be around and hear the never ending whining about the Mexican government and how things are done here. Of course, I realize they have been sentenced and have to serve their sentence here. AlanMexicali just can´t abide by anything AMLO does,even if he does it right. The other one should be President of Mexico, because has the answers for all the problems, but isn´t Mexican enough to be El Presidente, very sad for a struggling nation to be deprived of all that expertise. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bowie Posted March 20, 2021 Report Share Posted March 20, 2021 5 hours ago, MtnMama said: From what I have been reading, vaccination NOB varies wildly by state. The Feds have issued guidelines but each state is still different. No longer doing general cattle calls but many appointment and vaccine protocalls are broken. Ours could not have gone any smoother or quicker NOB. Extremely prepared and professional. January, in Texas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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