Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

[disneygeek90]

I'm surprised they're not closed already.

Unless the plan is to only sell 49 tickets per show time...

I saw Onward this afternoon and there was maybe 12 people in a typically busy theater that sits several hundred.

 

[LittleBuford]

No, Boris idea is what Tallica and DisneyCane were suggesting. Just let everyone get infected and not close anything down. Let sports and concerts go on, get everyone infected and try to isolate the vulnerable people.

Thanks for clarifying. In fairness to him (and I'm no fan), it's the experts advising the government, rather than the government itself, that have promoted such an approach. Quite why these experts are so out of step with their counterparts elsewhere is unclear, and they are facing intense criticism within the UK, including from the medical and scientific communities.

 

[Prince-1]

How is that not political to trash POTUS.

"I don't think Trump has a clue with what the CDC is actually doing" is trashing Sharpie. Oh boy!!

 

[DisneyDebRob]

This is just PA (on PA dept of health website):

COVID-19 Testing in Pennsylvania*

Persons Under Investigation (PUIs)	Negative	Pending	Positive
446	205	183	63

* Table last updated at 12:00 p.m. on 3/15/2020

Sadly we have only tested 446 people in total.

Here’s the positive cases by county (I live in Montgomery)

• Counties impacted to date include:
  • Allegheny (3)
  • Bucks (4)
  • Chester (2)
  • Cumberland (5)
  • Delaware (7)
  • Lehigh (1)
  • Luzerne (1)
  • Monroe (6)
  • Montgomery (24)
  • Northampton (1)
  • Philadelphia (6)
  • Pike (1)
  • Washington (1)
  • Wayne (1)

Bucks here

 

[21stamps]

US Navy sailor tests positive.

New Orleans shutting down restaurants.

Las Vegas resorts shutting down.

State of Bahamas has first coronavirus person.

I cancelled a Vegas girls trip a couple of days ago, not because of the virus, but because I had been ill and didn’t want to be on the plane ride to risk relapse. It was a tough decision and one that took a week to decide.. but wow, glad I did. I would have been there this morning.

 

[LittleBuford]

It's a legitimate approach and is something that I advocated but once the media and public step in it's unworkable.

Once March Madness and the NBA, NHL, MLB were cancelled we lost the opportunity to try that approach because that approach relies on carrying on as usual and not shutting down life.

It's an approach that risks hundreds of thousands of British lives. As a Brit living in the US, I'm very concerned about it.

Coronavirus: health experts fear epidemic will ‘let rip’ through UK

Doctors and scientists urge government to stop ignoring strategies from countries that have brought cases down

www.theguardian.com

Coronavirus: Some scientists say UK virus strategy is 'risking lives'

More than 200 scientists write to the government calling for tougher measures to tackle Covid-19.

www.bbc.com

 

[21stamps]

I think it's a shock and trauma. To have all entertainment options taken away, poof over two weeks with no end in site. People are getting in a catatonic state where they are just trying to pretend it's not happening or that they will wake up from it.

I think even kids are at this point. My son understands that all of his sports are canceled, but then he’ll say “I think we’ll be back next week. We won’t stay canceled.” Or the polar opposite when he’ll just get sad and say “Mom, do you think this spring is totally ruined? It feels like it.”


My heart breaks for kids right now. From kindergarten to seniors, especially 8th graders and seniors.. what a bad time for them.

 

[LittleBuford]

Josh is at the train station

So sad to watch. The festive mood and pretence at happiness feel really off.

 

[Thelazer]

I think it's a shock and trauma. To have all entertainment options taken away, poof over two weeks with no end in site. People are getting in a catatonic state where they are just trying to pretend it's not happening or that they will wake up from it.

People are DEF in denial here.
Once it's announced that this will go longer than 2 weeks, it might wake up folks.

The fact that the CP was let go, should be telling everyone what they need to know here.

 

[LittleBuford]

But that's what Tallica and DisneyKane are proposing.
And it's not without merit because the economic cost (losing job, losing house, losing saving) and psychological cost (of all sports and entertainment/social options) being taken away can lead to depression/suicide/people going postal. So you have to balance the cost of those lives and the economic cost vs vulnerable people dying.

I think you're being sarcastic, but I've read so many posts on here today that I've lost the ability to discern much of anything!

 

[hopemax]

I live in Colorado, our Department of Health just told residents and visitors to our "high country" counties that they should minimize all social contact. 30% of our cases are in those counties, and local health officials are expecting the mountain resort communites to have "extensive spread." I really would not want to be facing a respiratory virus at 8000-10000 ft elevation.

And since someone was asking for County breakdowns. Here is ours: https://docs.google.com/document/d/...G63Oa1ztz4B4r7xG_wsoC9ucd_ei3--Pz7UD50yQD/pub

 

[MuteSuperstar]

There are still plenty of entertainment options at home....more than any time in human history. I understand that this is all an unprecedented shock, but hey people work themselves to the point of exhaustion and go in big debt all to have a nice home. For those who can, it's time to spend some time enjoying that as much as possible. There's no doubt that we are heading into dark economic times though. The actions of the Fed are making that pretty clear.

 

[Prince-1]

I'm already resigned to the fact that the Tokyo Olympics, Opening of Nintendo Land and Opening of Beauty and the Beast Castle at Tokyo Disneyland will be cancelled. There's still a sliver of hope but every other big event over the last 4 weeks have been cancelled. March Madness being cancelled was a huge blow to me.

And if the COVID-19 is still raging on then all of those events should be cancelled.

 

[disney4life2008]

Ya mean that it's pathetic that it wasn't done sooner.

Pathetic that vloggers went to record the same stuff. Pathetic!

 

[Nubs70]

I know hindsight is 20/20 but that's what I think should have been done.

I agree.

Had China not try to cover up the unfolding situation, we would have had a 4 month head start.

 

[21stamps]

I live in Colorado, our Department of Health just told residents and visitors to our "high country" counties that they should minimize all social contact. 30% of our cases are in those counties, and local health officials are expecting the mountain resort communites to have "extensive spread." I really would not want to be facing a respiratory virus at 8000-10000 ft elevation.

And since someone was asking for County breakdowns. Here is ours: https://docs.google.com/document/d/...G63Oa1ztz4B4r7xG_wsoC9ucd_ei3--Pz7UD50yQD/pub

Thank you for posting.. but this is still like the others I’ve read. It doesn’t break down how many were tested per county.

Here’s why I think we all should have that info-

The counties with 0-5, have only 0-5 been tested? Do the counties with higher positives have more completed tests than the ones with lower?

This should be public info available to all.
Without it, the sweeping state wide mandates aren’t making sense.

 

[hopemax]

It's really interesting to observe how the public is dealing with this. They are utterly in shock and carrying on as normal denying the real possibility of any threat.

The virus does not discriminate, the outcomes of China and Italy will be similar to the USA, as we took the same or even lesser precautions.

Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance

Pick your current state. People are people, I'm not sure why people expected anything different.

I'm actually shocked (in a good way) by how far we've come in a short period of time. But 330 million people don't exactly move in the same direction easily.

 

[21stamps]

It would be one thing if we were fumbling about and Europe had their stuff together. But Europe is in huge trouble so I think it's unfair to blame and finger point. This virus has been something nobody has ever seen before and is just really hard to tackle.

At first it was, oh cute, funny Corona virus that just effects China and Asia, interesting topic of conversation and joking, it will never make it over here. That was basically the attitude.
And now it's here and life has been cancelled.

I think it’s entirely fair for the whole world to criticize China in this situation.

 

[EvilChameleon]

Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance

Pick your current state. People are people, I'm not sure why people expected anything different.

I'm actually shocked (in a good way) by how far we've come in a short period of time. But 330 million people don't exactly move in the same direction easily.

Is it possible to be angry, depressed, and accepting all at the same time? Because that's just about where I am.

 

[GoofGoof]

Is it possible to be angry, depressed, and accepting all at the same time? Because that's just about where I am.

I believe it’s possible...with a bottle of good scotch