Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[mshanson3121]

Part of the challenge with COVID-19 is viral shedding often occurs before symptoms appear. So you can be completely symptom free, but testing positive and passing the virus to others, early in the infection.

And they also believe you can shed even after your symptoms resolve for a period of time as well. I forget how long.

 

[fatmanatee]

so if we needed another example of why Disney needed to close the parks vs just asking people to execute "social distancing":

https://twitter.com/x/status/1239618604255059975

Heh, I was just popping in to post the same tweet. Not good.

 

[mi*vida*loca]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bu...kdown-coronavirus-disease-bay-area-2020-3?amp

 

[rteetz]

https://blogmickey.com/2020/03/home...6MSoL4tP9rl7mTxYWw738xBkJIYU1c1PbmTDLsL4LQMyE

 

[freshmanjs]

It's being treated as a snow day.

People keep saying this...what does it mean?

 

[The Pho]

People keep saying this...what does it mean?

Snow days are treated as bonus vacation days generally. So going out to do things and not staying home away from people.

 

[Aurora0427]

Agreed testing is important. It would have helped to delay if not contain the spread like Taiwan and Singapore.

Right now, even without testing data, the pattern of widespread community acquired infection and the growth rate call for immediate action. Have to give the Americans credit. When you decide to mobilize, you move hard.

Testing and tracing will of course be needed to decide when those bans could be relaxed. Can't see how the Disney parks can be back up in 4 weeks, when we'll just be seeing the result of today's measures. Late June at the earliest, would be my guess.

I agree.

 

[Aurora0427]

And they also believe you can shed even after your symptoms resolve for a period of time as well. I forget how long.

I

I know kids shed up to 30 days in their

 

[freshmanjs]

Snow days are treated as bonus vacation days generally. So going out to do things and not staying home away from people.

Around here, if the weather is bad enough for a snow day, people are staying home. Certainly not going to an outdoor shopping mall.

 

[Brianstl]

I posted this earlier in this thread or another, the Pentagon has banned all domestic travel for troops, contractors and the families of both until May 11. That I think is a good indicator of the earliest things will start to get back to normal.

 

[Krandor]

Just passing along something from my travel agent. Obviously YMMV. I am at my 30 day mark where I would normally have to pay the rest of the cost of my package. She called and verified and said that due to the shutdown that final payment for packages was changed to 7 days out instead of 30 days out.

Which makes me think if they are going to extend the closing they are going to do it more then 7 days out. So I'm still thinking we'll get something this weekend as to if they are going to extend or not so if people have reservations starting April 1 still have a chance to cancel before final payments are due.

Again just speculation from what I've learned in working on my mid-April trip.

 

[Krandor]

People keep saying this...what does it mean?

It means people are using the day to go to the beach and other places they also shouldn't be.

 

[freshmanjs]

It means people are using the day to go to the beach and other places they also shouldn't be.

Makes no sense. No one goes to the beach on a snow day.

 

[mi*vida*loca]

Around here, if the weather is bad enough for a snow day, people are staying home. Certainly not going to an outdoor shopping mall.

Im in NJ and we get snow days for mininal snow at times. Usually the snow is cleared on most roads by the afternoon. Then people use it as a free day to go sledding, to the mall, etc.

 

[Krandor]

Around here, if the weather is bad enough for a snow day, people are staying home. Certainly not going to an outdoor shopping mall.

I'm in GA and we often get snow days and the main roads are good but they are snow days because a lot of the back roads busses have to go on are Bad so it isn't safe for busses but general travel is still ok. So people will use a snow day to just go have fun and even if snow is substantial people will go sledding and building snowmen and the like and just use it as a day to have fun.

 

[tlmadden73]

I posted this earlier in this thread or another, the Pentagon has banned all domestic travel for troops, contractors and the families of both until May 11. That I think is a good indicator of the earliest things will start to get back to normal.

I fear the social fabric of society will break down well before that. People aren't going to quietly sit at home for 2 months watching Netflix. We need to get back to normalcy WELL before 2 months.
It's a novelty right now being.. I doubt it will be for long.

 

[mshanson3121]

"Snow day" is an expression.

The vast majority of Canada/US still have snow. When there is a "snow day", most people do fun things. It's treated like a day off - from school, work etc... Often, snow days might start out bad, but after awhile the storm passes and roads are cleared, so people head out and have some fun - skiing, snowmobiling, visiting friends, playing etc...

It probably also helps to remember that a lot of places, northern US and pretty much all of Canada, have a VERY different experience of snow days, than those of you that don't see much snow. You get an inch and the whole city shuts down Here, it takes pretty much a blizzard to shut everything down. Most storm days, the schools shut down, but everything else is still open (so you can still go skiing, shopping, to the movies etc....).

So all people mean by saying they treat it like a snow day, is just that they're looking at it as a free day off, to go have some fun. Around other people.

 

[YesterDark]

I fear the social fabric of society will break down well before that. People aren't going to quietly sit at home for 2 months watching Netflix. We need to get back to normalcy WELL before 2 months.
It's a novelty right now being.. I doubt it will be for long.

That's not going to happen.

 

[jknezek]

I fear the social fabric of society will break down well before that. People aren't going to quietly sit at home for 2 months watching Netflix. We need to get back to normalcy WELL before 2 months.

I mean you say this but it's such a small thing. We used to have people drafted into the military for years to go fight. We were told to collect all our scrap metal, not eat meat, not buy gas, not able to buy basic provisions. Forgo any luxury. And we did it for years for the good of the country and the world.

You are being asked to sit on your couch, in the comfort of your home, surrounded by technology to communicate with anyone in the world and be entertained in a myriad of ways, and do as little gathering in groups as possible for a few weeks. This is NOTHING in terms of a shared sacrifice.

It's almost sad when people say that a few weeks of being as quarantined as possible is something that is going to break down society. We are so amazingly spoiled and unable to cope with any kind of hardship these days.

Will some people lose jobs? Sadly yes. There is assistance in legislation already being passed. Will some people die? Sadly yes. Will some people experience financial distress? Yes. Will we come out slightly poorer as a country? Yes. But all can be rebuilt except the deaths. Those cannot be undone.

A small sacrifice to keep the deaths to a minimum should be good for our country's soul, not the end of our civilization.

 

[0FF TO NEVERLAND]

Apparently beach’s and cream is pretty full tonight. I’m at the point where I am shocked Disney is being so irresponsible with this situation. From all the people last night to this. I don’t know the situation in Florida but many places in the country are basically getting locked down. I don’t see how this is smart considering the state is full with the most at risk group. Even the beaches in Clearwater today were PACKED. I mean it’s nuts. I won’t be shocked in florida becomes the main hot spot in the coming weeks.

I’m shocked at the photos I’ve seen regarding Disney the past two days.