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Sorry if this has been discussed, but I was curious if anyone has reported numbers of people contracting Covid at pinball shows. The York Show is coming up and the pinside thread says "no Covid talk", so I thought I would ask here. Does anyone know the numbers from past shows and how they get reported, if they get reported at all.
Quoted from WJxxxx:I haven't seen anything reported either.
The first 2 shows held in the UK - Pinfest (over 400 attendees) and Critical hit (53 attendees).
I knew ALL of the people at Critical hit, and a large percentage at Pinfest - there was no outbreak following these comps reported.
There are huge differences between countries, and even regions, on the uptake of vaccines and the seriousness in which people take the Covid. Every single person I spoke to said that they had been taking lateral flow tests leading up to attending - a number when testing positive didn't attend and were fully refunded, not just for their show entry but comp fees along with hotel fees. The UK also has a very high percentage of people who are double vaccinated.
That does not mean that there won't be at whatever show you choose to attend. It only takes a single person to attend who is positive and not follow masking or social distancing guidelines and they can spread it to lots of people.
I'm choosing not to travel to European comps at the moment as I don't know what the situation 'on the ground' is over there as well as I do in the UK.
There's also the added hurdles (and associated costs) of testing and isolation.
A number of people I know are attending a major weekend of comps in Germany this weekend, so hopefully I'll get more information then.
Based not only on this thread, but what I know from my sister in NYC and other friends I won't be travelling to the US in the foreseeable future.
This is great info, thank you! You pointed out exactly what I was thinking when I saw you were in the UK. You have a much higher vaccination rate and people take the situation far more seriously there, as they should. I could be wrong but I believe the UK does contact tracing as well which I'm guessing is much easier to do with a centralized health care system. Your last point about not traveling to the US in the foreseeable future really sticks. I saw Todd Tuckey went to Allentown without a mask and most others weren't either. I thought if Todd is still breathing, no offense to Todd, maybe I can get a few games of Godzilla in without catching or spreading it. But I feel like its more responsible to just wait until it ships.
Quoted from rkahr:I thirst for information on shows as well. Allentown had very low mask wearing percentages. Attendance was also noticeably down. I set up down-venting fans in my booth hoping to change the dynamic of "across the table" customer conversation airflows. I felt like a prisoner in my booth. I'm skipping York because of covid despite it only being a 2 hour drive from home. I'm struggling on what to do about Expo at the end of the month. The hosting county has a mask mandate in place but there's no way to know how or if enforcement happens. Having high-risk loved ones here means I will isolate before returning home turning a 3 day trip into 10 days away from home; I'm just not sure the juice is worth the squeeze.
-Rob
-visit https://www.kahr.us to get my daughterboard that helps fix WPC pinball resets or my replacement LED display boards for Skee Ball
You described it perfectly. It's not me I'm worried about, it's me spreading it to others just because I wanted to go to a show.
Quoted from Bryan_Kelly:She also said the hospital is paying any nurse a $20,000 bonus if they commit to staying for the next two years.
Sounds like the hospital administrators need to cough up a little more cash. A 20k bonus split across two years isn't shit compared the hell those nurses have to go through on a daily basis.
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