NYS Covid Vaccine Form Earns a Go-Fix-Me

I’m starting up GO FIX ME installments on this blog. 

The mission – no less than purging our land of public health communication filled with self-involved, gratuitous, gobbledygook language, that makes it difficult and often impossible for readers to understand and take action.  

(How’s that for a mission!)

Here’s my first specimen and I’m hoping in the spirit of crowd sourced good writing you’ll join in and send more fixes.  

Back story on this salvage job.

3 days ago I posted about the “high barrier” ridiculously complex and vague questions NYS was using in its survey for people to register for the Covid 19 vaccine.  

Well as of this writing the painfully tortured ( easily fixable survey ) is still alive and well. 

So I’ll take a stab at fixes and hope you can contribute ones as well. 

NYS DOH Original Question Exhibit 1

A Fix 

Do you have any of the following health problems/conditions?

(Or)

Has a doctor ever told you that you have one of these health problems/conditions?

(Show the list of health problems included in NYS Section 3)

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.

.

Yes 

No

Not sure/Don’t know 

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NSDOH Original Question  Exhibit 2

A Fix  (not sure I even understand the original question – a little help here readers???)

Are you an essential worker that works with the public? 

Yes

No

Not Sure/ Need More Information*

*Writers would define what this category of essential workers is. 

NYSDOH Question Exhibit 3 

A Fix 

Do you live in a group setting (congregate living) for example an assisted living facility, nursing home, group home, homeless shelter, prison, or detention center?

.

Yes

No

Not Sure

 

I hope some of you will join in for these  GO FIX ME!  

Being an accidental critic is a lonely job.