Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[shanes17]

The idea of conventions - with crowds traveling from all over, milling together, then traveling back, starting this soon is, quite frankly, horrific. I am exhausted from dealing with this virus at the hospital. I worked 86 hours last week. We are FINALLY seeing some light. And this is going to send us back into a second spike. If someone isn't from a hotspot, they have the luxury of not seeing how horrific it is. But there is absolutely no reason their location won't become a hotspot next if we are turning Disney into some COVID stew and everyone takes a spoonful.

Which hospital are you at?

 

[UOAP]

Which hospital are you at?

I'm in New Orleans.

 

[SaintsManiac]

I'm in New Orleans.

Thanks for the work you’re doing. My friend works at Ochsner.

 

[yorkieteacher]

Yeah this is crazy to me. But I guess it would be a small enough group if there is no one else in the parks yet.

Our convention is a group of about 40 small independent communication companies all located in rural Georgia towns, so, yes, if will be a smaller group compared to most conventions.

 

[yulilin3]

I'm refreshingly shocked at the transparency.

Right? It's pretty cool. Im at work at the time of these meetings but i might listen to them going to and coming from, instead of the radio

 

[shanes17]

I'm in New Orleans.

Gotcha, I get it then. You all got hit pretty hard.

Fortunately that didn’t happen everywhere.

I don’t know the answer for opening up Disney. Truth is, reports are circulating now that this virus has been around a lot longer than we initially thought. To me, that is a good sign as we move forward. The virus won’t go away, we just have to manage it better and be aware. My coworker who sits directly next to me also visited Disney 3 days before it shut down, never got sick, got lucky I guess.

I get the hesitation though when you worked a hot spot like that. My family and I visited NO the weekend after Mardi Gras. Youngest had a gymnastics meet in Baton Rouge so on our open day we went over and visited French Q and has some beignets and gumbo. Also checked out the shopping tent deal there (can’t recall the name). Very cool experience for our family though, look forward to getting back someday.

 

[HuskieJohn]

So based on cancellations, park hours and these daily meetings going on it seems BEST case scenario...

May 1st DVC reservations not yet canceled open (need more input here)
May 10th MK opens to FL residents
May 17th Resorts reservations already made open

 

[Krandor]

Gotcha, I get it then. You all got hit pretty hard.

Fortunately that didn’t happen everywhere.

I don’t know the answer for opening up Disney. Truth is, reports are circulating now that this virus has been around a lot longer than we initially thought. To me, that is a good sign as we move forward. The virus won’t go away, we just have to manage it better and be aware. My coworker who sits directly next to me also visited Disney 3 days before it shut down, never got sick, got lucky I guess.

I get the hesitation though when you worked a hot spot like that. My family and I visited NO the weekend after Mardi Gras. Youngest had a gymnastics meet in Baton Rouge so on our open day we went over and visited French Q and has some beignets and gumbo. Also checked out the shopping tent deal there (can’t recall the name). Very cool experience for our family though, look forward to getting back someday.

We will know a lot more in the next few weeks as states start to open back up. Think it may be too soon for some but will be interesting to see what happens to numbers as that happens... which will have a lot to say about when disney opens. Crossing my fingers things stay steady to down as things reopen.

 

[LSUmiss]

I'm in New Orleans.

Which hospital? My sister is at the VA & she says it is actually slow. It had gotten bad for a while when we were in our peak but said it’s basically nothing now.

 

[LSUmiss]

Gotcha, I get it then. You all got hit pretty hard.

Fortunately that didn’t happen everywhere.

I don’t know the answer for opening up Disney. Truth is, reports are circulating now that this virus has been around a lot longer than we initially thought. To me, that is a good sign as we move forward. The virus won’t go away, we just have to manage it better and be aware. My coworker who sits directly next to me also visited Disney 3 days before it shut down, never got sick, got lucky I guess.

I get the hesitation though when you worked a hot spot like that. My family and I visited NO the weekend after Mardi Gras. Youngest had a gymnastics meet in Baton Rouge so on our open day we went over and visited French Q and has some beignets and gumbo. Also checked out the shopping tent deal there (can’t recall the name). Very cool experience for our family though, look forward to getting back someday.

I think our hotspot here has much more to do with the unhealthy hard-living lifestyle (and excessive poverty) here than it has to do with anything else.

 

[yankeesfan123]

So based on cancellations, park hours and these daily meetings going on it seems BEST case scenario...

May 1st DVC reservations not yet canceled open (need more input here)
May 10th MK opens to FL residents
May 17th Resorts reservations already made open

What?

 

[DavidHobart]

The idea of conventions - with crowds traveling from all over, milling together, then traveling back, starting this soon is, quite frankly, horrific. I am exhausted from dealing with this virus at the hospital. I worked 86 hours last week. We are FINALLY seeing some light. And this is going to send us back into a second spike. If someone isn't from a hotspot, they have the luxury of not seeing how horrific it is. But there is absolutely no reason their location won't become a hotspot next if we are turning Disney into some COVID stew and everyone takes a spoonful.

There's guidance emerging on how to do a convention while still implementing social distancing, e.g. in the framework of this Johns Hopkins report: https://www.centerforhealthsecurity...pening-during-covid-19-guidance-for-governors which notes a high potential for mitigation of convention risks.

The short version is you need more space per person to allow for the 6 feet, and that a whole set of risk-assessment tools (e.g. via WHO) need to be reviewed and acted on (or the proposed event needs to be canceled)...

The important thing to keep in mind is that conventions, like everything else, will be different in the medium term future than they were in the past...

 

[wdw_dine_junkie]

So based on cancellations, park hours and these daily meetings going on it seems BEST case scenario...

May 1st DVC reservations not yet canceled open (need more input here)
May 10th MK opens to FL residents
May 17th Resorts reservations already made open

People are reporting getting cancellation emails for resort reservations later than the 17th of May. I think the 23rd that the latest I have seen. Mine was checkout on the 10th, my MK FP+ are still there for the 10th though.

 

[charmed59]

So based on cancellations, park hours and these daily meetings going on it seems BEST case scenario...

May 1st DVC reservations not yet canceled open (need more input here)
May 10th MK opens to FL residents
May 17th Resorts reservations already made open

I’m not sure 1 week is long enough to see if there are any repercussions from opening a theme park.

 

[juice0358]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-computer-modelers-revise-dates-021424815.html

The model was updated today and shows Florida now in the last wave of states that should ease restrictions. Georgia is also in the group of states that should hold off easing restrictions and we all know that they are opening up on Friday, so I guess the governors aren't paying attention to the model anymore and I'm pretty sure Desantis won't be taking the model into consideration either. I think what the business panel tells him this week will definitely carry the heaviest weight in his decision making process and will probably announce something by Friday. Ultimately Disney makes the final call on their openings but, I'm sure it will be inline with Desantis since they are also part of the panel making suggestions. Either way I hope Disney makes an announcement soon on a target date of a soft opening to give their workers and customers some sort of timeline on what to expect.

 

[yulilin3]

If Disney goes back to releasing CM schedules on time, this Sunday they will get scheduled for May 3rd to 9th and then May 3rd wil be 10th to 16th.

 

[Searc]

If Disney goes back to releasing CM schedules on time, this Sunday they will get scheduled for April 3rd to 9th and then April 3rd wil be 10th to 16th.

May 3rd, not April.

 

[yulilin3]

May 3rd, not April.

Darn, lol. I'll edit

 

[Searc]

Darn, lol. I'll edit

I had to double check it was April already. LOL

 

[yulilin3]

I had to double check it was April already. LOL

The longest April ever!!