Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[xuxa777]

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With the parks shut down, most staff laid off, and just management and security, Disney can manage the losses for quite some time and open when the business risk allows. It's going to be awhile.

Yes the park expenses have dropped significantly at least, that will help a great deal

 

[MickeyWaffles]

The economy won't matter much if hospitals are flooded to overflowing with the sick and there aren't enough doctors or nurses healthy enough to care for them or enough equipment, supplies and medicine to keep them alive. That's why the shutdowns are needed and they'll last as long as necessary to prevent the collapse of the healthcare systems. Disney will reopen when it's safe to do so and not a day before.

Exactly this. Disney must be incredibly cautious here. Reopening early would be a huge mistake and hard to recover from. If they open too early, it will endanger CMs & guests and put an even bigger burden on the healthcare system. Besides being devastating, it would be a very bad look to put business before safety.

FL has the highest percentage of elderly people in the country. In many areas there, it’s still been business as usual with non essential businesses open. Finally today, the stay at home order.

I don’t think Disney is opening back up for a very long time.

 

[mshanson3121]

I know some don’t like how this thread is being moderated but if we all worked together and avoiding discussing things that should be discussed elsewhere nothing would need to be removed.

And of course that applies to the admin comments too, I'm sure, and the rule will be applied fairly and evenly without any favortism or bias

 

[rteetz]

And of COURSE that applies to the admin comments too, I'm sure

In this thread most of my posts have been about keeping this thread on topic or posting Disney or theme park related updates. Nobody has to like me.

 

[Krandor]

And of course that applies to the admin comments too, I'm sure, and the rule will be applied fairly and evenly without any favortism or bias

Well I saw earlier a mod made a separate post in the rumors forum that should have been in here and it got merged into this thread so it looks to me like rules are being applied to mods as well.

 

[TDSAXX]

In this thread most of my posts have been about keeping this thread on topic or posting Disney or theme park related updates. Nobody has to like me.

I think I speak for many when I say I like you and appreciate everything you do on this thread and the boards in general.

 

[CogsworthTN]

In this thread most of my posts have been about keeping this thread on topic or posting Disney or theme park related updates. Nobody has to like me.

I think all the moderators are doing an amazing job. It is a daunting task to keep the boards running on topic at a time when the world we live in has been turned upside down.

 

[whiporee]

All business are not shut down, many people working from home , essential stores, factories are open now, even with stay at home. So the economy is still 'running' even though is is a fraction of what it is normally. This will increase even more so once the peak has passed in an area, non essentials opening etc. Disney is way ahead of the small business owner you mentioned, they know what the are up against and have much more powerful tools and assets to handle it. The small business are going to take a big hit. Especially ones running on thin margins which is a significant amount. Orlando will take a big hit more than most of the country due to the tourist industry is primary.

It is not an all or nothing sledgehammer approach, it will be target surgical approach to bring things back online. As others have stated and it is a bummer for us the parks will literally be the last to come back, but they will.

I'd agree, except for this. There is no more essential business to Central Florida than the Disney parks. it is the biggest employer in the region, it is the motivator for the region's economy. Other things exist in Central Florida to be sure but none are as crucial to life in Orlando as Disney.

If there is a way for them to be open -- and not a the-disease-is-almost-all-gone way but an all-reasonable precautions-have-been-taken way -- they'll open. Maybe not full speed, but maybe even full speed. June is a solid 60 days away; we're in about day 25 of this right now. The modeling we've seen has been from countries who did a severe lockdown and those that did almost none. The exponential curves are based on rural China and elderly unprepared rural Italy, a region with nearly no ICU beds (in case you were curious, the US is fifth in the world in per capita ICU beds. One benefit of medicine for profit). In Seattle, the first hotspot in the US, there have been fewer than 200 deaths in nearly four weeks. New York is averaging about 200 deaths a day. Those are all tragic, but the spike we were told was coming in both places hasn't come. Last week we were warned that the last week of March was going to be horrific. It wasn't. Now they are saying next week will be horrific. Maybe it will be, but there's at least some reason to think that maybe it won't. And at the end of the day, this is still a disease that mostly preys on the already sick -- in New York, 97 percent of the people who have died had underlying conditions.

I'm not downplaying it; i'm not trying to save my vacation. I'm just saying that when they are projecting curves and peaks, they don't know what is happening until one has actually passed. We're too early to make any projections about what 60 days from now will look like. Except that we still probably won't be able to get toilet paper.

 

[halfpintpeggy]

In this thread most of my posts have been about keeping this thread on topic or posting Disney or theme park related updates. Nobody has to like me.

I like ya!

 

[Thecouch]

Yeah I have no problem with mods here. I go on reddit a bit and you find mods there on power trips. On here I do go off topic sometimes but never seen a mod go over the top here

 

[Remy is Up]

In this thread most of my posts have been about keeping this thread on topic or posting Disney or theme park related updates. Nobody has to like me.

Noone likes you anyway. Haha. Jk

 

[midaroco]

June is a solid 60 days away; we're in about day 25 of this right now....New York is averaging about 200 deaths a day....
Last week we were warned that the last week of March was going to be horrific. It wasn't. Now they are saying next week will be horrific.

We are about 70 days in right now. The first known case in the US was 1/20/20.

I live in NY. I’m sorry, but 2,000 of my friends and neighbors dead from this is pretty horrific.

 

[EmJ]

I'd agree, except for this. There is no more essential business to Central Florida

"Essential" in the pandemic context means essential to human life - food, heat, medical care, etc. Not essential to Disney shareholders, or Florida, or the economy generally. I am praying for the day Disney opens, and not because I'd really like to go on our August trip. But because I agree with others that Disney and other theme parks, sports stadiums, concerts, and places of (nonessential) mass gathering will be last to reopen and will signify that we survived it.

 

[JasonH]

Imagine - a week ago, there was high speculation that Disney would re-open by Easter. This stupid virus has changed the world so quickly. Every day it's almost like a new reality. Stay safe out there, everyone. And @rteetz keep up the good job.

 

[fsjking]

Imagine - a week ago, there was high speculation that Disney would re-open by Easter. This stupid virus has changed the world so quickly. Every day it's almost like a new reality. Stay safe out there, everyone. And @rteetz keep up the good job.

A month ago someone posted asking when the parks would close and people looked at him like one of those guys with "the end is near" signs. The parks will never close! This isn't China. Etc. I'm just hoping we aren't sitting here in August talking about how stupid we were thinking the parks would open in June.

 

[Remy is Up]

A month ago someone posted asking when the parks would close and people looked at him like one of those guys with "the end is near" signs. The parks will never close! This isn't China. Etc. I'm just hoping we aren't sitting here in August talking about how stupid we were thinking the parks would open in June.

Its possible

 

[AvidDisReader]

I apologise in advance to rteetz for going off topic. I work in the Mortgage Industry. If anyone is going to have trouble making their mortgage payments please reach out to your lender. Most of the mortgage companies are offering 90 days deferments (some at no cost) to those effected by this virus. This is a global trajedy, there is no need to make it worse by losing your home.

 

[kiki02]

Stay home locked in The only way you can help yourself and others now. If your local and state governor won't lock it down, you do it. Order in foods and needs, watch movies This will only get worse if we are all out n about.

 

[cranbiz]

Being a moderator is a thankless job. I know as I'm one on a 4 wheel drive forum. Ryan does a remarkable job.

If you don't like the way he moderates, you can try your luck on another forum. I think you will find the grass is not greener on the other side of the fence.

To get back on topic. Disney is not going to open anytime soon. With the paranoia surrounding this outbreak, a premature opening would be a disaster both in a public health sense and in a PR sense. The company has enough money to whether the storm as long as they remain smart.

 

[hertamaniac]

And of course that applies to the admin comments too, I'm sure, and the rule will be applied fairly and evenly without any favortism or bias

I thought I would post a reminder about the infraction schedule for our boards. An attack on a moderator incurs a 60 point violation. I do not know what constitutes an attack. So even if I (or anyone else) agrees with your statement, I/they risk violating this policy.

https://www.wdwinfo.com/guidelines.htm#INFRACTIONS