You did not answer my question; how many people's safety and lives is she directly responsible for every single day?

Since you dodged the question I'll assume it is zero.

Good day sir.

They just postponed the NHL season.

I explain she ran the entire European theater of nurses.

Ran ASHA ..lol so much more and so many more examples as to how many people she protected AND saved.

100? We are talking in the scopes of hundreds of thousands bud but you keep doing what you've proven yourself best at doing and assume.

Ignore obvious truths and assume.

Got this response via Facebook Messenger from the official page.

“We have no plan to cancel the show. Concerning the current situation we are considering alternatives. At this time we are looking to maybe pushing the show out to June. We will update our website / Facebook once we have everything worked out.“

She called to carpet by the state if a single person dies?

Nope. I will if it happens on my watch with charges to follow. So the situation is not academic to me, there is real world consequences.

For your aunt? Not so much.

Aged like milk comes to mind.

If...?

Just got this email.

Texas Pinball Festival is cancelled for March 27-29, 2020.

Our hearts are broken to have to announce the 2020 Texas Pinball Festival scheduled for March 27-29 is cancelled. This decision was not an easy one to make, and we know many of you are as disappointed as we are.

The World Health Organization has declared the COVID-19 virus a global pandemic and the safety and security of our guests is our top priority. What affects us even more directly is that President Trump has suspended travel from most of Europe and many of our vendors and special guests have contacted us in the last 24 hours to notify us they would not be coming to TPF due to concern for the COVID-19 threat. In addition, Exhibitors have begun cancelling. We've said it many times... Without the Exhibitors, there is no show.

We cannot express how devastating this is to TPF and to us personally.

We are asking everyone to give us a few weeks to develop a plan, as we work with the venue and our merchants. We hope you can weather this storm with us and be patient. We promise to do everything we can to save the Texas Pinball Festival.

Initially, tournament entries will be refunded and purchased merchandise marked “pick up at the show” will be mailed. We expect to be able to transfer general admission to TPF2021.

We want to thank everyone that stood by us offering their help and support. You don’t know how much that means to us. We will be in touch.

Paul, Kim, & Ed

Not looking promising for this show to go on as planned. Hoping the organizers can work something out with the venue to move this to another weekend down the road, June being mentioned on the site. My guess is that it's going to be tough working anything out with the Atown fairgrounds goofballs though, will be interesting to see what transpires.

I don't think this Coronavirus thing is going to "go away" anytime soon. They are closing schools down, doing away with large crowds, etc to slow the spread of the virus down but it isn't going to disappear in a couple weeks or months. I have a feeling we will be luck to see life back to "semi normal" by 2021 show dates let alone a few weeks down the road.

Only time will tell but thinking the show might happen a couple months down the road is wishful thinking in my eyes. For now everyone do the best they can to stay safe & healthy. Some things are just more important than a pinball show and being alive happens to be one of them.

Why should anyone trust you? You don’t even display where your from. So do tell, where are all these important meetings with big shots taking place?

I live in a NW suburb of New York City. There. Is. No. Panic. Not surprised, because New Yorkers have their shit together. Mayor finally prohibited events of 500+ people, but the vast majority of public schools (not colleges) remain open. Plan in place to get 10% of the city workforce remote right now, and more as possible, although many city employees do need to be at their posts.

Gov is tired of waiting for clown shoes to do something, anything, positive or productive, so he’s working with 20 independent labs to get testing done in the state and the state is manufacturing its own hand sanitizer. By the ton. New York baby. We get the job done.

Same goes for you. Where do you live?

Oh snap.

Is it wrong that I really want to know who this guy is now? lol.

Been like that for the last 2-3 years. Or a lot worse, anyways. I can pinpoint an exact reason for it, but.....I'm not allowed to post it, so....

Solution: get gdonavan to be the head nurse at pinfest. He can explain that the virus is media hype and be responsible for the many lives present. We can then see the heroism and wisdom in the flesh!

Rhode Island, why, want to cuddle? (FYI, Says RI under my username)

Did you intend this to be such a hilariously funny comment or did it just work out that way?

ASHA = American Speech-Language Hearing Association

Ummm, no it doesn’t. I assume you have it set to private.

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Ahh, didn't realize that, as it shows it on my end. So, RI for the stalkers. (Yours must be private too)

Announcement coming tomorrow. Pinsiders who know more than the CDC or WHO are probably nonexistent. On the Pinfest Scheduling dates there is one voice I am listening to. Ivan. And what does Europe, Rhode Island, NY, and Connecticut have to do with Allentown, PA. Not one F’n thing.

Ivan also has to consider attendance. If the doors open and few people show, he’s out a LOT of money.

If Allentown is cancelled - we’re gonna have much bigger problems to worry about around that time.

At this point - big picture people.

I agree with this. Most of us already took time off from work, booked Hotels, and planned for their families to let us have our weekend. Re: a new date. Some families will adjust others may already be committed to family vacations, work conferences and doctor appointments / surgeries. Employers may not be able to grant the new time off request. Now add in that Pintastic and other events are already on the near horizon. I had plane tickets for TPF so it’s not been a very positive evening for myself. Shit happens.

"We get the job done."

LOL!

There's a true Canadian

Massachusetts. Your state is in my state’s butt cheeks.

Wrong ASHA but that is humorous. Apparently I cant say anymore as I've been moderated for inflaming with my use of sources neighsaying the misinformation

Yes, we wouldn’t want the truth to get out there and help quell the spread of further problems

Honestly I would say NO! I really think this whole thing is going to simmer down over the next 30 days. This is the USA man, we've been through everything from Pearl Harbor to 911... you can't keep an American pinned down for long. The media has gone nuts, and created this panic. At the end of the day everything is going to settle down in a couple weeks. People are going to get back to normal. I think May is when everyone turns the page no matter what is happening.

Cool. Just curious where you’re experiencing the panic.

Yup. Like immigrants.

Yeah, the American School Health Association does not quite work as well in the joke.

LOL That is horrible!

I really wish they would delay this show to like September. that way its not near other stuff like pintastic.

Yeah, but York is October!

Officially moved to June 12-13th

not yet on the website - hopefully they make it clear soon

Nice. Then Pintastic two weeks later. June is going to be a great pinball month!

It’s unfortunate that now both shows are so close together this year. My hope is vendors, game bringers, and ticket buyers will all band together to make both events great!

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/scenes-panic-nyc-first-coronavirus-193050032.html

Is this the normal shopping New Yorkers do?

Personally - I Don’t think either of these events will be taking place.

Isn't NY where they were going around sucker punching old dudes on the streets for video likes?

I think it’s going to make a lot of people choose one event over the other. I’m still planning on going to both but things could change.

I agree with above post 100% but even if they do take place I wouldn't expect a great turnout at either this year. There is a huge difference between something like this and your "typical flu". At this point there is really no history of how to handle this. It will be at least two years before they can develop & test vaccine (according to everything I have read about that end of things). And they don't even have a vaccine figured out at this point let alone starting to lab test it. They don't know enough about the Coronavirus to even know exactly how it spreads, how long it can lay dormant, etc. So I doubt much will change in a couple months.

Right now I think it is more important to be thinking about your family's health. Trying to do all we can to keep this from spreading any more than is necessary & the financial impact this is going to have world wide than worrying about a couple pinball shows.

I know pinball is important to a lot of people here but this isn't the time to be worrying about the "what ifs" with a pinball show.

Very well said friend. You’re exactly right.

Now whata I do,I already put down a non refundable deposit for my suit ?

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Looks like a rando social media post that was picked up by that prestigious media organization for click bait: Yahoo. I saw nothing in that video that indicated that was even NYC. Or even this week.

That looks more like Black Friday at a New Jersey Sams Club.

https://www.facebook.com/pinfest/posts/1722782277863800

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