Asia Disney Parks closed due to Coronavirus (SHDL, HKDL, TDL)

[Itsnotmykitchen]

John Hopkins has a tracking website. Pretty sobering removing politics from the stats. It has been moving been a 3-3.5% global fatality rate all day. That's higher than the Spanish flu. https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

The Spanish flu had a much higher fatality rate. It killed almost 2% of the world population not just 2% of those infected.

 

[Germack]

S.Korea’s at a 0.46% death rate. In 3736 cases? Why so low?

S. Korea: Total cases 3,736; Total deaths: 21; Total recovered: 30; Outcome unknown: 3,685

The outcome for the vast majority of people infected in S Korea is unknown. Some of these 3,685 people will die which will increase the death rate.

 

[HuskieJohn]

2 pre positive cases confirmed in FL

https://twitter.com/x/status/1234307914438889473

 

[Brianstl]

In a first ever for me, an ad for surgical masks is now appearing on this site.

 

[QueenElinor]

2 pre positive cases confirmed in FL

https://twitter.com/x/status/1234307914438889473

One apparently caught it locally, and because it didn't meet testing guidelines, it was not recognized for days after he was hospitalized. We might see a lot of cases among hospital staff at Doctor's Hospital of Sarasota. Isn't Busch Gardens just north of there?

 

[Keem.meem]

Hey everyone,
I'm gonna be headed to Disney World in Orlando on March 20th, and I'm getting more and more concerned about the parks possibly closing due to the coronavirus/COVID-19 virus. I already heard about the parks in Japan and I'm afraid the same might happen for the Orlando parks, which would totally suck. I have been looking forward to going on this trip with my school's marching band for over a year now, plus it's my senior year and I don't know if they'll reschedule it in the event of the parks closing. Do you think Disney will close the parks becuase of the scares? Why or why not?

 

[caketalks]

Honestly it is impossible to predict at the moment. I would doubt that Disney would desire to lose a lot of money (which they would in case of closure) but if the push came from the US government to close theme parks, then they would have to comply.

They will not want to be seen to be putting their employees or guests at risk. If it were my business, I would hope to be open as much as possible - especially given the losses from the Asia located parks they will want to offset.

You need to make your own decision about travelling at the moment. Personally, this doesn't put me off travel or going to WDW. I am in a high-risk group thanks to underlying health issues, but I take the risk every year to leave my house in flu season and this would be no different for me.

And of course, this underlines how important travel insurance is!

 

[caketalks]

Cisco had a bit devnet conferences scheduled in mountain view CA for march 10-11. Just cancelled.

When big companies like cisco are cancelling stuff in the US I get more concerned because I am sure a company like cisco is talked to CDC and others before making that call.

I work for a similar, Global, US HQ'ed company. They have likely cancelled this event to make sure employees see that they are making the right moves and correct efforts. It is also possible that many of their attendees are unable to travel due to restrictions put in place e.g. flying from mainland China. I wouldn't read into this cancellation and use it as a reason to panic.

 

[JaxDad]

S. Korea: Total cases 3,736; Total deaths: 21; Total recovered: 30; Outcome unknown: 3,685

The outcome for the vast majority of people infected in S Korea is unknown. Some of these 3,685 people will die which will increase the death rate.

Not necessarily. Depending on how many of those die, it could mathematically lower the rate.

 

[QueenElinor]

I work for a similar, Global, US HQ'ed company. They have likely cancelled this event to make sure employees see that they are making the right moves and correct efforts. It is also possible that many of their attendees are unable to travel due to restrictions put in place e.g. flying from mainland China. I wouldn't read into this cancellation and use it as a reason to panic.

I hope not, because Amazon has stopped ALL employee business travel, even in the US. Even to me that's a huge over-reaction- and I'm just this side of Preppertown.

 

[caketalks]

I hope not, because Amazon has stopped ALL employee business travel, even in the US. Even to me that's a huge over-reaction- and I'm just this side of Preppertown.

I would lean toward overreaction on this one too but I think companies are paranoid about making sure that they are seen to be doing something in this media/social media age that we live in.

 

[HuskieJohn]

Assuming you are young (Sr yr in HS) and healthy...

Unless you have ANY health issues/history then I would not cancel your trip. If WDW closes down then that is out of your control but dont worry about it yourself...again I ONLY say this if you have no health history.

I believe that once FL does widespread testing it will scare a decent amount of people to stay home and WDW spring break crowds are not going to be as bad as they would be without.

Kind of hoping for that to happen for my June trip.

 

[Krandor]

I work for a similar, Global, US HQ'ed company. They have likely cancelled this event to make sure employees see that they are making the right moves and correct efforts. It is also possible that many of their attendees are unable to travel due to restrictions put in place e.g. flying from mainland China. I wouldn't read into this cancellation and use it as a reason to panic.

Certainly not a reason to panic but when things in the US start getting cancelled it does give you a little bit of pause. I expect at this point the number of cases in the US is higher then we currently know about. Even if we don't have kits to test everybody I expect the CDC has a pretty accurate estimation of what the situation is.

 

[xuxa777]

With only 500 tests being administered so far, when more testing occurs this week the numbers are going to go up very fast, will be over a thousand cases nationwide by this time next week.

 

[clarker99]

With only 500 tests being administered so far, when more testing occurs this week the numbers are going to go up very fast, will be over a thousand cases nationwide by this time next week.

For context, approx 60million people contracted the swine flu (H1N1) in the USA and near 13,000 passed away. Nothing shutdown in the USA back in 2009.

Yes, the current death rate for COVID-19 (2-3.5%) is much much higher than H1N1 but do we think this spreads to anywhere near 60m people?

 

[Yarbogash]

The US testing program has been nuts. In our province in Canada we were at over 1000 tests while for all of the US there had been under 300 tests done. I understand the testing process has now changed and opened up but in FL and WA looks like the damage has been done.

 

[mster425]

Honestly it is impossible to predict at the moment. I would doubt that Disney would desire to lose a lot of money (which they would in case of closure) but if the push came from the US government to close theme parks, then they would have to comply.

They will not want to be seen to be putting their employees or guests at risk. If it were my business, I would hope to be open as much as possible - especially given the losses from the Asia located parks they will want to offset.

You need to make your own decision about travelling at the moment. Personally, this doesn't put me off travel or going to WDW. I am in a high-risk group thanks to underlying health issues, but I take the risk every year to leave my house in flu season and this would be no different for me.

And of course, this underlines how important travel insurance is!

my travel insurance company is denying all claims due to Covid-19 even with their “cancel anytime” product. We booked our trip almost a year ago and thought we’d be good, but nope. nowhere we’re traveling is shut down yet anyway, but it is a stressful watch and wait situation for sure.

 

[Iowamomof4]

my travel insurance company is denying all claims due to Covid-19 even with their “cancel anytime” product. We booked our trip almost a year ago and thought we’d be good, but nope. nowhere we’re traveling is shut down yet anyway, but it is a stressful watch and wait situation for sure.

You're making me feel a whole lot better about not getting travel insurance. I don't understand how this wouldn't qualify under the "cancel anytime" rules, but I don't have much experience with travel insurance.

 

[mster425]

You're making me feel a whole lot better about not getting travel insurance. I don't understand how this wouldn't qualify under the "cancel anytime" rules, but I don't have much experience with travel insurance.

on their social media now, when people call them out, they’re careful to say they don’t and have never offered a cancel for any REASON plan, only a cancel anyTIME, and epidemics are excluded. This is a large, trusted travel insurer. I will not buy travel insurance again. ETA I will use that money to spend extra on flexible airline tickets and other reservations

 

[sponica]

Hey everyone,
I'm gonna be headed to Disney World in Orlando on March 20th, and I'm getting more and more concerned about the parks possibly closing due to the coronavirus/COVID-19 virus. I already heard about the parks in Japan and I'm afraid the same might happen for the Orlando parks, which would totally suck. I have been looking forward to going on this trip with my school's marching band for over a year now, plus it's my senior year and I don't know if they'll reschedule it in the event of the parks closing. Do you think Disney will close the parks becuase of the scares? Why or why not?

It takes A LOT to close the US parks. With the measles outbreak in Southern CA, Disneyland didn't close. WDW has only closed for hurricanes a handful of times and on 9/11.