i spent a good month pretty much going
at it
all hours of the day um you know early
in the mornings late in the evenings
i had set up alerts on my phone where
you know they if something came open you
would get an alert
and i had absolutely no success
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ultimately we had a friend of the family
who was kind of doing
good samaritan work for people to get
them appointments
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i said well here's my information if you
want to give it a try
i've had no success maybe you can give
it a shot i
started to look at think about ways like
how
i could make this better for my
relatives that were
have been trying desperately for the
past few weeks to get um
you know vaccine slots one of them rite
aid
you have to go to their website and put
in like
a zip code and then you have to go
through each store and click manually
like search for vaccines it'll say no
appointments available whatever i used a
program called auto hotkey which uses
just just kind of like you know put any
commands mouse movement
keyboard strokes etc so i just made a
simple little thing that would just
click
search then go to the next door then
search and go to the next store
it's a great feeling to be able to help
people like this so i personally have
helped 115 people
i started getting all these uh private
messages saying benjamin we need help
benjamin
i can't book it myself benjamin help me
please
even myself with a modest amount of
computer knowledge and ability
i mean i was i had to basically recruit
a young lad to
you know run the show because i couldn't
get an appointment
yeah well um i got i got the email and i
was amazed and and
quite frankly i i i was stunned and i
thought what
you're kidding me this is amazing he did
it i was
almost overcome with tears
the world's been through a lot in the
past year you know and then all of a
sudden
you're like oh my gosh i'm at the end of
the tunnel possibly
this is a beautiful thing