There is no way .. companies .. or even individuals would be okay with this. We don't have a vaccine for every virus out there .. Companies AND people (especially in areas that are not affected) would be okay with getting back out there. People are CURRENTLY going to parks ... people ARE gathering together .. (just not hugging or touching like they used to). This Easter weekend we saw family. We didn't have a huge meal together, but we still hung out. Why? Because we aren't infected .. we haven't been anywhere in a month and our county has a handful of cases (most of which have recovered already). We CAN get together in groups .. within reason.
I mean .. just look at the places that ARE open right now . .they are more crowded NOW than they are normally (Home improvement, Wal-mart, grocery stores, etc.) . because there is nowhere else to go.
People will be willing to risk exposure .. if the virus hasn't impacted them PERSONALLY ..which for a vast, vast, vast majority of the country the virus itself hasn't impacted people . .just the strict government rules have.
Thinking along lines of some businesses having restrictions eased starting May-ish (which there now rumblings of this happening), perhaps construction would be one of them?
I can't see them going forward with projects not started, but maybe they will be able to finish/work on the ones already deep in progress.
Projects that already had the funds allocated.
Thank you for this. My friend who has a friend in the hot zone in NY and I were discussing this same thing.Our spring break trip was canceled and I'm hoping we get to take our make-up trip in August. I feel pretty good about the parks being open with a mostly normal experience by then, but it's really hard to guess at this point. One thing that keeps popping into my mind as I read through these boards about Disney not opening until there is a vaccine, not until 2021, etc. is that the whole point of the social distancing as we have heard many times is to "flatten the curve". In epidemiology, the purpose of flattening a curve is to spread the rate of infection out over a greater period of time. The area under the curve is the same, meaning the number of actual cases of infection is expected to be the same, just over a longer period of time so as to not overwhelm the hospitals. Then, hospital staff would hopefully not have to make the life and death decisions we have seen taking place in Italy, of deciding who gets a ventilator and who doesn't. So, they are still expecting the same number of individuals to ultimately get this virus. The goal was to just prevent this from happening in our hospitals. This virus is something that we will have to learn to live with, even when/if there is an effective vaccine. There will be those who will refuse to be vaccinated, as well as those who still get it due to the vaccine not being 100% effective. As sad as it is, people will still die from COVID-19, as they still die from the flu, and other respiratory viruses. I have seen young, healthy patients without any underlying medical conditions get the common cold and end up in respiratory failure and die. The idea of shutting everything down for an extended time (not just Disney) to me sounds ridiculous. And this is coming from someone who works in a large hospital with critical care patients. I have always been extra paranoid about my children touching things and washing their hands because I know what can happen to even the healthiest of kids. So yes, we need to take precautions, especially with those who are at highest risk (which should have been done pre-COVID-19 anyway), but life has to get back to some semblance of normal soon.
As I said, I'm optimistic about our August trip to Disney, but really don't know much about how long it takes to get the parks back open after closure. If it's canceled, then I will be sad, but hopefully Disneyland will be there next year (that's our current plan). And I'll spend August at the beach!
Also I get people are very upset about what this virus has done to their lives (we also lost a Disney trip, plenty of really hard changes in our day to day lives), but that doesn’t mean being realistic about what the next bit of our lives looks like is being negative.
I will take realism over blind “positivity” any day. Need I remind people there have always been those who swore Disney would never close at all stateside? That they were definitely opening April 1? That they had a pretty good chance of opening mid April? We all hope for this to just disappear overnight and the normal switch to be flipped, but accepting the reality of the situation doesn’t make one negative.
If Disney did do the temperature checks and one shows they have a fever... I would assume Disney would refund whoever shows a fever since they wouldn't be allowed in the park?
Thank you for this. My friend who has a friend in the hot zone in NY and I were discussing this same thing.
This is here. And it will stay here. Stay at home measures/shelter in place/quarantine/closing businesses/canceling events was all to simply SLOW the spread and not eliminate the threat.
It's like when you were a kid and your parents gave you the choice of getting a spanking and getting it over with or being grounded for a week.
Like everybody here, I have no way to know for sure but my opinion is we'll start seeing some things open in may like resstaurants and maybe some store but with new procedures like limits on how many people can be inside possibly things like no bar seating and then slowly more things will open like nonessential stores and the like assuming the curse stays flattened. Large gatherings like sports, theaters, and theme parks will be the very last things to open and I have no idea what that timetable looks like but I think June/July is the earliest we're looking at and that is only if we can start opening other things up without spiking cases.
How may deaths have currently been traced back to WDW? I know of the one and that man visited many places while in Orlando so it’s hard to say actually where he got it .Epidemiologists have been tracing the disease all over the world. They're exceptionally good at it. Some huge percent (90%?) of South Korea's cases came from a single carrier going to church and it spreading from there.
If you're the Walt Disney Company, how many deaths are you willing to be let traced back to a family trip to WDW? Cause that will 100% happen. They know it.
I'm super bummed about it. I average 3 trips a year to WDW. I'm hoping we get lucky with an instant read test within the next 12 months. I think that's about as optimistic as is reasonable.
How may deaths have currently been traced back to WDW? I know of the one and that man visited many places while in Orlando so it’s hard to say actually where he got it .
Epidemiologists have been tracing the disease all over the world. They're exceptionally good at it. Some huge percent (90%?) of South Korea's cases came from a single carrier going to church and it spreading from there.
If you're the Walt Disney Company, how many deaths are you willing to be let traced back to a family trip to WDW? Cause that will 100% happen. They know it.
I'm super bummed about it. I average 3 trips a year to WDW. I'm hoping we get lucky with an instant read test within the next 12 months. I think that's about as optimistic as is reasonable.
I would expect that we may see the 15 minute COVID test become mandatory before you are allowed to do things like board a plane or come onto Disney property.
There is no way .. companies .. or even individuals would be okay with this. We don't have a vaccine for every virus out there .. Companies AND people (especially in areas that are not affected) would be okay with getting back out there. People are CURRENTLY going to parks ... people ARE gathering together .. (just not hugging or touching like they used to). This Easter weekend we saw family. We didn't have a huge meal together, but we still hung out. Why? Because we aren't infected .. we haven't been anywhere in a month and our county has a handful of cases (most of which have recovered already). We CAN get together in groups .. within reason.
I mean .. just look at the places that ARE open right now . .they are more crowded NOW than they are normally (Home improvement, Wal-mart, grocery stores, etc.) . because there is nowhere else to go.
People will be willing to risk exposure .. if the virus hasn't impacted them PERSONALLY ..which for a vast, vast, vast majority of the country the virus itself hasn't impacted people . .just the strict government rules have.