Worst Website Evah update: The process is insane

Here's my latest negative experience of trying to navigate the impossible Massachusetts vaccine website:

Back on the website on Tuesday (March 2), and more of the same --- wait times of 1 minute, then 37, 54 and 55 minutes ----- and then greater than a day! Oh, and when you click on Gillette and it does say there are availabilities on certain days, it's a ruse as you call it up only to find that NOTHING is actually available at any times on those dates, so it's a total sham of a website.
Here's a thought: Make the website far more user-friendly by not making people START OVER EVERY DARN TIME THEY HOP ON THE WEBSITE! 
It makes no sense that you have to wait until you sign up for an appointment before the state takes your info (insurance, age, who you are, etc). By doing that, the state would then have your information, and they'd have a record of those who have already been trying to get on the website, and then --- who knows --- maybe an email could be generated once an appointment becomes available. (They do this in some states.)
The way it is now, the entire process is a free-for-all every time you go on looking for an appointment and you have hundreds of thousands of people trying to sign up every Thursday, which makes it virtually impossible to sign up when there are only 50,000 more shots becoming available each week.
I just wish one of those tone-deaf state bureaucrats would realize how insane this whole process is.
Thanks for nothing, King Charlie!

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