Experience PRS 2020 Update

[toothace]

Double bummer...no Experience, and Vault trip was coming up in 3 weeks

 

[Shawn@PRS]

I just read a few of the "PRS Just Canceled The Experience" threads on another PRS-centric page and all I can say is THANK YOU.
Thank you for being cool, thank you for being civil and thank you for acting like adults.
Man, the sh!t is getting ugly out there.

 

[RickP]

I just read a few of the "PRS Just Canceled The Experience" threads on another PRS-centric page and all I can say is THANK YOU.
Thank you for being cool, thank you for being civil and thank you for acting like adults.
Man, the sh!t is getting ugly out there.

You’d have to be an idiot to think PRS wanted to deep-six their own 35th Anniversary party. That said, while there may be a shortage of toilet paper, A-holes are plentiful.

 

[alantig]

I just read a few of the "PRS Just Canceled The Experience" threads on another PRS-centric page and all I can say is THANK YOU.
Thank you for being cool, thank you for being civil and thank you for acting like adults.
Man, the sh!t is getting ugly out there.

You want us to go bust some heads?

 

[László]

I'm also pissed because I've dropped 21 lbs so far this year and I wanted to make you all jealous!

I'm jealous without even being there. I put on ten pounds over the winter.

Never mind that I'm drowning my sorrows in some amazingly delicious home-made cinnamon coffee cake at the moment...

 

[László]

This is the 21st century! You'd think we could source some kind of video thing.

Not that I know how to do any of that, mind you.

 

[Boogie]

This is the 21st century! You'd think we could source some kind of video thing.

Not that I know how to do any of that, mind you.

Wha?!!

He’s a witch!

 

[toothace]

I just read a few of the "PRS Just Canceled The Experience" threads on another PRS-centric page and all I can say is THANK YOU.
Thank you for being cool, thank you for being civil and thank you for acting like adults.
Man, the sh!t is getting ugly out there.

Thank you for having this event for us! I look forward to whatever you guys work up as an alternative/replacement. Even if I have to wait for Experience 2022.
That's a downer others can't be rational. IDK if this would make you feel any better about it, but look at it this way...at least you aren't in the medical/dental field. Doctors... who have followed years of universal precautions and have studied microbiology and the spread of pathogens as an everyday part of our business...are losing their minds (and the use of rational thought) and panicking about how to handle this. Sad. Simply sad.

 

[shinksma]

I just read a few of the "PRS Just Canceled The Experience" threads on another PRS-centric page and all I can say is THANK YOU.
Thank you for being cool, thank you for being civil and thank you for acting like adults.
Man, the sh!t is getting ugly out there.

What I find amazing are the responses of "if only they had waited a week, I could have taken that cruise / gone to Rome / whatever" as if they are somehow immune from, and will never be a carrier of, the virus, and it is only the hoi-polloi that will get sick.

As someone said recently, "you can't fix stupid".

 

[sergiodeblanc]

I just read a few of the "PRS Just Canceled The Experience" threads on another PRS-centric page and all I can say is THANK YOU.
Thank you for being cool, thank you for being civil and thank you for acting like adults.
Man, the sh!t is getting ugly out there.

Seriously? It’s f@cking free! Yeah, I know travel, hotel expenses, etc. I have a hotel room to cancel too but, sorry your three day free concert and workshop event got canceled over a pandemic... SMH.

 

[alantig]

You should see the stupid on the sports site I subscribe to. It's amazing how moronic people can be. One guy said this is nothing more than the common cold, the 19th version of it, and we didn't freak out over the previous 18. (I wish I was making that up.) Other completely idiotic statements. It makes me shake my head.

But even in that darkness, there are rays of sunshine. One guy said (paraphrasing here), "I love sports. I've followed sports all my life. As much as I love sports, I love living more."

 

[eliju]

Tough call, but probably the best one to make. Maybe they’ll have a 35th and a half party in the fall.

At least I can look forward to my 594 Hollowbody being completed in the next few weeks unless production is disrupted.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

What a great T shirt idea.

Who are you flippin’ the bird?!

Continuing with the Experience guitars idea, I propose that PRS have a virtual sale on the Saturday that the Experience would have been going on. We can log on and watch a virtual tour of the guitars and the retailer that would have been selling each one can explain the features. We call in to a switchboard and buy them. First call first served. Kind of like those cable channels on TV. Any left over can go to the stores just like normal. What do yawl think?

I went visual! @Shawn@PRS in his silver sequinned jacket, with one of those car aerial mics!

Wha?!!

He’s a witch!

“But how do we know he’s a witch?!”

 

[alantig]

“But how do we know he’s a witch?!”

"He looks like one."

 

[sergiodeblanc]

"He looks like one."

He turned me into a newt.

 

[László]

IDK if this would make you feel any better about it, but look at it this way...at least you aren't in the medical/dental field. Doctors... who have followed years of universal precautions and have studied microbiology and the spread of pathogens as an everyday part of our business...are losing their minds (and the use of rational thought) and panicking about how to handle this. Sad. Simply sad.

You might give board-certified infectious disease specialists and epidemiologists a little more credit. Consider the possibility that they know more about their specialty fields than you're willing to acknowledge.

 

[Tucson Thump]

You might give board-certified infectious disease specialists and epidemiologists a little more credit. Consider the possibility that they know more about their specialty fields than you're willing to acknowledge.

I dated a girl in college who was studying infectious diseases, so I'm familiar with what germs are safe to pass.

 

[toothace]

You might give board-certified infectious disease specialists and epidemiologists a little more credit. Consider the possibility that they know more about their specialty fields than you're willing to acknowledge.

Les...we are dentists. We practice universal precautions. Have for 30 years. That means we've been treating every single patient we see as potentially infectious. We get annual training on OSHA and infection control. Yet I now dentists that are losing their minds over "What do we do about this? How are we handling this?" We do the same thing we've been doing since the '80s when universal precautions went into effect(initiated by HIV). I've never said the CDC or epidemiologists don't now what they are talking about. I'm saying some of us in the trenches have forgotten or worse are ignoring everything we do on a patient to patient basis to prevent cross contamination and the spread of disease.

 

[Shawn@PRS]

Sorry guys. My intention wasn't to ramp up an argument over the virus, I just wanted to point out how much I appreciate your ability to be respectful. So let's leave the medical opinions to the experts and go back to talking about fun things.

Thanks

 

[László]

Les...we are dentists. We practice universal precautions. Have for 30 years. That means we've been treating every single patient we see as potentially infectious. We get annual training on OSHA and infection control. Yet I now dentists that are losing their minds over "What do we do about this? How are we handling this?" We do the same thing we've been doing since the '80s when universal precautions went into effect(initiated by HIV). I've never said the CDC or epidemiologists don't now what they are talking about. I'm saying some of us in the trenches have forgotten or worse are ignoring everything we do on a patient to patient basis to prevent cross contamination and the spread of disease.

I agree with this. The dentists I know have always worn masks and gloves for the past decade or so. There isn't much more you can do.

I thought you were saying the infectious disease specialists are talking about serious preventive measures because they're panicked; indeed, the docs I know are upset that we're short of beds and equipment (I have quite a few close friends in the medical field). I hope that will be rectified, though everyone realizes that it will take some time to make more ventilators and other specialty equipment.

Hospitals in my area are actually saying the might have to utilize outdoor tents, like in the 1919 Spanish Flu, 100 years later. Kinda makes me scratch my head.