New York Times Article on Disney and Iger in the crisis

[miTnosnhoJ]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/business/media/disney-ceo-coronavirus.html
i have a trip planned in December. I am extremely doubtful that it will happen.

 

[mlayton14]

Fascinating

 

[Nickel78]

good read. Thanks for sharing.

 

[heynowirv]

The focus of the article was Bob Iger and how he's going to bring disney back, not when. But with that in mind I'm thinking that our 8/1 trip will probably not happen.

 

[snappy]

The article is a true reality check as to where Disney is and where it is headed.

 

[tjkraz]

The article doesn’t have much to say about theme parks. Other Disney business segments like films, ESPN and cruise ships are in far greater jeopardy in the short term. There are no easy solutions given the high population density in those venues.

The theme parks would have to enforce attendance restrictions the likes of which they never dreamed. However, Disney has the opportunity to provide a model for the entire theme park industry. This passage seems to bear that out:

”One central challenge is to establish best practices for the company and the industry on how to bring people back to the parks and rides while avoiding the virus’s spread — using measures like taking visitors’ temperatures.”

All of the virus numbers are trending in a favorable direction. The supply of PPE and Ventilators is growing. Testing will become more readily available. There may not be a vaccine until fall of 2021, however not much will change from June/July 2020 until that vaccine release. Disney should have mid-summer 2020 as their target for reopening the parks. Our economy can’t afford to lose the entire theme park industry for a year and a half.

 

[Nickel78]

The article doesn’t have much to say about theme parks. Other Disney business segments like films, ESPN and cruise ships are in far greater jeopardy in the short term. There are no easy solutions given the high population density in those locations.

The theme parks would have to enforce attendance restrictions the likes of which they never dreamed. However, Disney has the opportunity to provide a model for the entire theme park industry. This passage seems to bear that out:

”One central challenge is to establish best practices for the company and the industry on how to bring people back to the parks and rides while avoiding the virus’s spread — using measures like taking visitors’ temperatures.”

All of the virus numbers are trending in a favorable direction. The supply of PPE and Ventilators is growing. Testing will become more readily available. There may not be a vaccine until fall of 2021, however not much will change from June/July 2020 until that vaccine release. Disney should have mid-summer 2020 as their target for reopening the parks. Our economy can’t afford to lose the entire theme park industry for a year and a half.

I agree. There will be people who won't feel comfortable travelling until there is a vaccine. But that doesn't mean we keep everything shut down until then.

 

[Darklord77]

Our economy can’t afford to lose the entire theme park industry for a year and a half.

Especially true if this becomes an endemic situation. I've read a few articles that elude to the fact that this virus might be with the human race for a long time to come. We will have to accept the risk at some point in the near future. We can't stay locked up in our house forever. When does the cure become worse than the problem?

 

[Jack_Sparrow_NJ]

With the virus still very active and with 25% of those spreading being asymptomatic individuals are going to have to decide what risks they are willing to take.

These risks will then get prioritized with employment, food and shelter being at the top and travel and attending a theme park being at the bottom.

Taking temperatures is just a way to give potential park visitors a false sense of security. Limiting attendance would have the same result.

It would be interesting to use tracking dust on just say 20 people and watch it spread through the parks.

 

[tjkraz]

These risks will then get prioritized with employment, food and shelter being at the top and travel and attending a theme park being at the bottom.

Thing is, there are hundreds of thousands of workers whose employment, food and shelter are tied to the theme park industry.

Taking temperatures is just a way to give potential park visitors a false sense of security.

Identifying the most viral individuals provides more than a false sense of security. Few people have a thermometer in their vacation travel bag. In the middle of an expensive Disney vacation—in the Florida summer heat—dad isn’t going to self quarantine If he feels a little tired and warm.

In the absence of a vaccine, you chip away at the problem however you can.

The coming weeks are going to bring an interesting tug ‘o war between various government officials. Everyone will be looking to weigh the sustained good health of citizens vs the fiscal reality that people must get back to work.

 

[Jack_Sparrow_NJ]

Thing is, there are hundreds of thousands of workers whose employment, food and shelter are tied to the theme park industry.



Identifying the most viral individuals provides more than a false sense of security. Few people have a thermometer in their vacation travel bag. In the middle of an expensive Disney vacation—in the Florida summer heat—dad isn’t going to self quarantine If he feels a little tired and warm.

In the absence of a vaccine, you chip away at the problem however you can.

The coming weeks are going to bring an interesting tug ‘o war between various government officials. Everyone will be looking to weigh the sustained good health of citizens vs the fiscal reality that people must get back to work.

People do need to get back to work and it will certainly be a phased in approach. But for those of us who work in hospitality we know we are last on the list.