Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[Remy is Up]

Now for the details...

Details are simple. Lots of people are going to lose jobs, homes, savings etc. Its bigger than parks closing.

 

[Brianstl]

What has happened over the last 48 hours isn’t anywhere close to the level of tragedy as 9/11, but I have the same feeling today that many things have forever changed that I had then.

 

[wareagle57]

I wonder if they'll extend passholders expiration dates by the amount of days they are closing the park?

I feel confident they will. That’s what they did overseas.

 

[jerry557]

The bigger issue is the panic. People are not rational in times like this. I've been through hurricanes and see the fights, actual fist fights, that people get into. Look at what people are doing in the grocery stores. They are panic buying everything. There is no more toilet paper. No more sanitizers. Soaps are gone. And now the cold medicine is starting to go. Vast majority of these people in a panic will not even get the virus!

Businesses also don't have unlimited savings. Sure Disney has the money to close for a few weeks and not miss a beat. But many business will go bankrupt if they do it. Not to mention most people live paycheck to paycheck. They can't just stay home for a month and sit among their mountain of toilet paper rolls and bleach they've horded and wait for the pandemic to end.

 

[only hope]

I wonder why the Disney Blog hasn't posted the official releases? It seems best to update that, the apps, and the websites all at the same time. Nothing on the WDW website or app yet. Or Disneyland's website, and that announcement was hours ago.

 

[SaintsManiac]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1238262069675405314

 

[Searc]

Details are simple. Lots of people are going to lose jobs, homes, savings etc. Its bigger than parks closing.

I meant as far as hotels, restaurants, stores, etc closing. But I guess they aren't shutting down the money makers. Ridiculous. If the parks need to be closed, so do the hotels.

 

[ClapYourHands]

I think the failure is that the US just wasn’t prepared now everyone is playing catch-up. If there was the ability to do testing on the scale the South Korea has done I think things would go much better. They are able to test on a large scale that allows for those who have the virus to know and be quarantined those who don’t can continue to work.

Exactly! We don’t have the test kits. As of last week, our state had one kit that will allow for 600 tests. I know various labs have been developing their own tests, so the situation is better, but transmission has gone up in that time, too, so we are still way behind.

Last week, I got an email for health professionals urging practitioners not to send patients to hospitals for testing if their symptoms didn’t warrant hospitalization because there simply aren’t enough tests so they need to be saved for the really sick ones.

So self quarantine with no real diagnosis and no one monitoring or informing their contacts in the community that they may have been exposed. And thus the exponential spread of the virus.

 

[Searc]

What has happened over the last 48 hours isn’t anywhere close to the level of tragedy as 9/11, but I have the same feeling today that many things have forever changed that I had then.

Interestingly, my DH said the same thing 20 minutes ago.

 

[only hope]

The bigger issue is the panic. People are not rational in times like this. I've been through hurricanes and see the fights, actual fist fights, that people get into. Look at what people are doing in the grocery stores. They are panic buying everything. There is no more toilet paper. No more sanitizers. Soaps are gone. And now the cold medicine is starting to go. Vast majority of these people in a panic will not even get the virus!

Businesses also don't have unlimited savings. Sure Disney has the money to close for a few weeks and not miss a beat. But many business will go bankrupt if they do it. Not to mention most people live paycheck to paycheck. They can't just stay home for a month and sit among their mountain of toilet paper rolls and bleach they've horded and wait for the pandemic to end.

We had to drop our reserve pallets of toilet paper today. The aisle was closed off while we did so and one person decided they were too good to wait for it to reopen- they started to crawl through from the next aisle to get to the pallets. People have gone nuts. Even in Italy the grocery stores remain open! No need to shop like all the stores all closing down.

 

[UOAP]

Actually WDW will remains open through the weekend:

“the Walt Disney World Resort has announced it will temporarily close to guests on Sunday, March 15, effective immediately.”

"Effective immediately" makes no sense in that sentence. That's kind of funny.

 

[Farro]

The bigger issue is the panic. People are not rational in times like this. I've been through hurricanes and see the fights, actual fist fights, that people get into. Look at what people are doing in the grocery stores. They are panic buying everything. There is no more toilet paper. No more sanitizers. Soaps are gone. And now the cold medicine is starting to go. Vast majority of these people in a panic will not even get the virus!

Businesses also don't have unlimited savings. Sure Disney has the money to close for a few weeks and not miss a beat. But many business will go bankrupt if they do it. Not to mention most people live paycheck to paycheck. They can't just stay home for a month and sit among their mountain of toilet paper rolls and bleach they've horded and wait for the pandemic to end.

Do they though? I'm not sure about that.

One day I think we will look back on all of this and regret the way a whole bunch of things were handled:

Testing
Leadership
Closings
Transparency
Overreactions
Under-reactions

 

[TwoMisfits]

If 100,000 people already have the virus, I would expect your hospitals in Ohio have already exploded. Unless of course most of the cases did not require any kind of hospitalization.

Or they are 7 days from needing it...hospitalization happens in week 2...week 1 isn't that bad...

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Every single Disney park across the globe closed as of Saturday.

Still so crazy / hard to to wrap my head around it

Just have to trust that people that are exerts in this /paid to make the advice they are given are doing the right thing (and going far enough) and that come April we are in a much more positive position

As much as it sucks (and it does) everything bring closed for 2 weeks is small price to pay in the grand scheme of things

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Do they though? I'm not sure about that.

Well, they won't go out of business or anything but 2020 financials are going to look way down compared to 2019

 

[mshanson3121]

Well, I guess that answers that.

 

[TwoMisfits]

What has happened over the last 48 hours isn’t anywhere close to the level of tragedy as 9/11, but I have the same feeling today that many things have forever changed that I had then.

Last night, on 3/11, I told my husband it felt like 9/11 again...the world changed in a single night...now, just like then, we're getting all the follow-on effects...

 

[only hope]

I’m surprised the hotels and Disney springs aren’t closing. Just seems strange. I get they can’t kick everyone out overnight but figured they’d eventually close all the hotels

It may have something to do with the very large amount of DVC rooms...

 

[wareagle57]

The hub says “beginning at the close of business Sunday.” That verbiage seems pretty clear. Now we just need to hear from Universal. Was really looking forward to the All American Rejects concert Saturday. Marshmello the next week is definitely out.

 

[CastAStone]

The hub says “beginning at the close of business Sunday.” That verbiage seems pretty clear. Now we just need to hear from Universal. Was really looking forward to the All American Rejects concert Saturday. Marshmello the next week is definitely out.

Universal is closing this weekend too.