Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[xuxa777]

My daughter works at Disney, my son works entertainment venues at Disney, universal and around central Florida, my soon to be DiL works for both Disney and universal, some part of my income comes from the parks being opened.
Central Florida as a whole is almost 100% dependent on the parks and tourism, not only have CM and TM been affected, the entire area, restaurants, gift shops, stores, mom and pop places, hotels, conventions... all rely heavily on tourism

plus you are a front line worker during this crisis. Seriously thank you.

 

[vinotinto]

I just have a hard time believing Mardi Gras is the only reason here. I guess it’s odds but everyone I know attended Mardi Gras for several days & no one has gotten sick.
ETA: but if it was that, Mardi Gras is more than just ppl outside together. It’s ppl outside, in close proximity, with no place to wash their hands & usually partying or on the go in some form for hours each day & days at a time wearing ppl down.

I'm sure all that exacerbated the problem. Especially the lack of hand washing.

 

[yulilin3]

@yulilin3 glad you are posing in this thread.

ALways love hearing your perspective since you are right there in the middle of everything

thanks

I tend to avoid these type of threads cause I don't enjoy partaking in speculation and the continual back and forth with no real info. It'll be a hard balance and I can only imagine how much hair pulling is going on inside Disney management right now, whatever they decide to do they won't win and people will be upset either way.

 

[FreeTime]

I would project that with the phases the WH announced that it will take a bit of time to get to gate phase for florida. And under phase three, large venues must use distancing.

 

[mshanson3121]

Why would they wait so long to start phase 1? I thought a previous poster was talking about the Florida Governor going to phase 2 very quickly. They could just as easily hit phase 2 May 1.
My understanding is Trump wants to leave it to the individual Governors, not sure Disney would do this, but very possible especially knowing how important Disney and tourism is to Florida.

The article I read said that May 1st is the date Trump has set out that governors can start deciding to open if they want. It's not that far away - 2 weeks.

 

[Spridell]

I dont know if this has been mentioned here but

"The current federal guidelines on social distancing are not expected to be renewed when they expire on April 30."

 

[xuxa777]

Jacksonville Florida partially opening their beaches and parks for walking and exercise, tomorrow with limited hours.

 

[jlwhitney]

Jacksonville Florida partially opening their beaches and parks for walking and exercise, tomorrow with limited hours.

yes this! But Daytona beaches and a bunch in georgia have already done that for awhile now with their beaches.

 

[Krandor]

The article I read said that May 1st is the date Trump has set out that governors can start deciding to open if they want. It's not that far away - 2 weeks.

And most of the gating criteria is for 14 day periods si what happens between now and May 1 will determine who can move to phase 1 on May 1

 

[choirfarm]

nm

 

[choirfarm]

double post

 

[xuxa777]

The guidelines can be handled on a county by county basis in Florida. Might be slower to implement in south Florida Miami hotspot.

For that are concerned about meeting the gating requirements, they just announced that we are using the same systems that we use to track the regular flu, these systems are very robust and have been using for years.

The city by city, county by county monitoring will greatly help Disney to open.

 

[wallawallakids]

So these states that are opening in two weeks, will they have the testing needed? Both our governor and the governor of NY have repeatedly had issues with getting testing ramped up and over and over have said that’s a huge stonewall to opening. And it’s not just the tests. It’s getting the facilities to read the results, the swabs for the tests and the agents. I know this is an issue here. (My husband is a physician). I’m so confused as to how isolation can happen for groups of positive people if we can’t have an accurate number of positives. Do we just immediately isolate when someone is sick? I’m not sure what Disney can do, if anything and the more we discuss this, I’m not even sure they should. I’m not sure how much, if any of this falls on them. I just see no way of keeping it out of public spaces without enough ability to test.

 

[Jrb1979]

I dont know if this has been mentioned here but

"The current federal guidelines on social distancing are not expected to be renewed when they expire on April 30."

I don't think thats a good idea at all. I fear for my neighbors to the south. I know Disney and the rest of the economy needs to come back. The fact there was over 2500 deaths yesterday is scary.

 

[xuxa777]

So these states that are opening in two weeks, will they have the testing needed? Both our governor and the governor of NY have repeatedly had issues with getting testing ramped up and over and over have said that’s a huge stonewall to opening. And it’s not just the tests. It’s getting the facilities to read the results, the swabs for the tests and the agents. I know this is an issue here. (My husband is a physician). I’m so confused as to how isolation can happen for groups of positive people if we can’t have an accurate number of positives. Do we just immediately isolate when someone is sick? I’m not sure what Disney can do, if anything and the more we discuss this, I’m not even sure they should. I’m not sure how much, if any of this falls on them. I just see no way of keeping it out of public spaces without enough ability to test.

Might be why NY will be closed until May 15th for now.

 

[juice0358]

Florida will move on these guidelines most likely, I mean they deemed WWE an essential business earlier this week.

Also on the call it is reported Trump wants sports open ASAP, stadiums and ballparks to open with fans with empty seats for social distancing, that will be interesting how that would work

Where did you see that he wants stadiums to open with fans ASAP? I haven't seen anything on that yet and am curious. Please post link if you have it, thanks.

 

[Fido Chuckwagon]

will disney open in summer?

Summer of 2021 maybe.

 

[xuxa777]

Dr. Brix just stated Phase three will be getting back to our old normal. That pretty much says the parks will be allowed to open in Phase 3

 

[vinotinto]

What’s going on with Florida schools? Are they an indefinite closure state, one with a tentative opening date, or have they already been cancelled for the remainder of the year?

That’s got to come before Disney (and of lot of non essential businesses) IMO, if for nothing else because a ton of people rely on school for childcare.

This is a great point. I read they are closed through May 1st, but the Teacher's Union is petitioning for them to close through the end of the year. Now, schools in the south end earlier than in the north. Our last day in GA was May 21st. We are closed through the end of the year and the last day of the school year is now May 15th. But, summer camps and summer childcare will likely also be impacted.

Yeah but a pp maybe on another thread said ppl’s info is being collected when they get off the plane at mco if they are from a “hotspot” area being made to say where they are staying & told to self quarantine for 14 days. The ridiculous part about that is that those ppl sat on the same plane with other ppl not from a hotspot area so really they should all quarantine.

Whether they ask you to quarantine or not, is NOT based on whether you are from a hotspot, but whether the flight *originated* in a hot spot. So, if you live in Rhode Island, but flew out of NJ, you will be asked to self-quarantine when you get off the plane.

 

[Tigger's ally]

Dr. Brix just stated Phase three will be getting back to our old normal. That pretty much says the parks will be allowed to open in Phase 3

That is not how I take it. Phase 1 could be hotel and some restaurants. Phase 2 could be limited park entrance. Phase 3 is everybody come on down.