Do you think that Disney world will reclose its gates due to the rising number of COVID cases in Florida and around the country?

[Jedijax719]

Sorry if this has already been asked.

Have there been ANY confirmed cases of COVID-19 at Disney World (or anyone who visited and tested positive when they returned)?

Also, what is/will be the protocol if there are any confirmed cases at or from WDW? Would they close the entire park down again if they have any cases? Is there a protocol in place?

 

[YodaMan]

Sorry if this has already been asked.

Have there been ANY confirmed cases of COVID-19 at Disney World (or anyone who visited and tested positive when they returned)?

Also, what is/will be the protocol if there are any confirmed cases at or from WDW? Would they close the entire park down again if they have any cases? Is there a protocol in place?

The wording of the most recent reports pretty much confirm that people AT Disney have Covid but they can’t prove that anything was SPREAD at Disney so they’re not concerned. But with case counts being so astronomically high, they’ll never truly prove (or try to prove) community spread from WDW specifically.

 

[TeriofTerror]

FWIW:

 

[Jrb1979]

FWIW:

If true its disgusting and makes me angry these parks are doing this to their employees. No wonder cases are out of control. Here when a business has an employee that it positive they shut down for a day and do cleaning. They also let people who have been to said business they may have come in contact with a person with Covid-19. For some reason none of the parks have any interest in doing that.

 

[Lilofan]

If true its disgusting and makes me angry these parks are doing this to their employees. No wonder cases are out of control. Here when a business has an employee that it positive they shut down for a day and do cleaning. They also let people who have been to said business they may have come in contact with a person with Covid-19. For some reason none of the parks have any interest in doing that.

FWIW:

Reading the letter it looks like the person works at Universal Orlando. The writer refers to a sister park. The writer also refers to an unplanned two week vacation ( didn't mention with pay ) . I believe if it a cast member at WDW that takes an unplanned two vacation, they are paid for the time away from work from the union/company agreement.

 

[TeriofTerror]

Reading the letter it looks like the person works at Universal Orlando. The writer refers to a sister park. The writer also refers to an unplanned two week vacation ( didn't mention with pay ) . I believe if it a cast member at WDW that takes an unplanned two vacation, they are paid for the time away from work from the union/company agreement.

That's just what I told my husband (he's the one who sent this to me). And other than Disney Springs, most of the anecdotal reports of infected employees seem to be centered around Universal.
And of course, there's no way I can verify - or vouch for the validity of - a Reddit post. But it seemed topical, so I thought I'd share.

 

[threvester]

Duck Season!

So sad they took away the gun...never to be seen again...comedy gold

 

[Heppenheimer]

Are you on the administrative side of things?

I'm a practicing physician, but I'm on the hospital board.

 

[Dizneykid]

FWIW:

1. I have a hard time legitimizing that but I genuinely ask how a random employee would know that many people are sick with covid? 12-20 per attraction? Are we to believe that a higher up employee would expose this kind of information? I feel like the place would certainly close down if that many people were testing positive. You couldn't conceal that. I know some businesses are sketchy but most theme parks closed voluntarily before they had to. And now we're supposed to believe that they don't care about known spread within the parks?

2. Is this thing airborne or not? And what is the difference? Is droplet spread someone within 6 feet sneezing directly on you or near you and airborne is infecting someone by lingering particles in the air when the person is not near you?

 

[Touchdown]

2. Is this thing airborne or not? And what is the difference? Is droplet spread someone within 6 feet sneezing directly on you or near you and airborne is infecting someone by lingering particles in the air when the person is not near you?

The science is not clear yet, during certain medical procedures it appears to be able to spread airborne, and there is some evidence to suspect that symptomatic people could potentially be airborne vectors. Unfortunately, direct studies are difficult as they would put people at risk and are thus unethical. We still don’t know the viral load required for infection, and there is also evidence that what your inoculating dose is may affect how severe your disease is.

 

[Jedijax719]

I have a REALLY hard time believing the legitimacy of that letter. Sure, these studios have power but not SO much power that they can prevent this from leaking into the mass media. Unless both of these parks are SO in cahoots with the media that any bad press is completely hidden, we would have known if there was a large number of employees who were sick with COVID-19. Guests? That's VERY hard to prove since the guests could have gotten COVID-19 anywhere at any time. But employees? They could have gotten it anywhere and anytime BUT they arrive at the park every day. This would be a scandal that would do MUCH more damage to these parks than simply closing for a few months.

 

[CumulusIsobar]

I have a REALLY hard time believing the legitimacy of that letter. Sure, these studios have power but not SO much power that they can prevent this from leaking into the mass media. Unless both of these parks are SO in cahoots with the media that any bad press is completely hidden, we would have known if there was a large number of employees who were sick with COVID-19. Guests? That's VERY hard to prove since the guests could have gotten COVID-19 anywhere at any time. But employees? They could have gotten it anywhere and anytime BUT they arrive at the park every day. This would be a scandal that would do MUCH more damage to these parks than simply closing for a few months.

NBCUniversal Media, LLC is an American mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by Comcast

 

[The Mom]

Is there any significant difference b/t miami dade county and those counties you listed?

Population density.

 

[VaderTron]

You have ignored that 50 hospitals in Florida are at already at 100% ICU capacity (which is already including additional surge capacity)

Workbook: Public

But hey... now you will cherrypick, you will go find hospitals with capacity and you will return to the "nothing to see here" propaganda.

On that subject, a friend just had a heart attack the other day. Living in a county next to a major FL city there is a rural hospital. However, everyone here chooses to pass it up and go into the city for superior healthcare. When the ambulance came the family asked for her to be taken to their hospital of choice in the city. They were informed that there were no available beds. They asked for their second pick. Then they were informed that of the 8 hospitals in the city there were NO BEDS AVAILABLE. She had to go to the rural hospital. She was very fortunate in that the heart attack was more mild and she ended up not needing emergency surgery, but that detail was not known when she was being picked up by the ambulance. This is not a place known for it's professionalism and expertise. It doesn't even have a maternity ward. I would be terrified if I was having a heart attack and I was told that hospital was my only option for care.

The takeaway? No beds available for a heart attack victim is not something to tote as a non-issue. How many other people were turned away for needed care that day? I don't want to know.

 

[Jedijax719]

NBCUniversal Media, LLC is an American mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by Comcast

Would that be a "yes"? I do know that Universal didn't suffer nearly as much as Disney because they are owned by a cable company that generates most of the revenue. I don't have an exorbitant amount of knowledge on the ins and outs of the media world. But the question is whether they (Disney and Universal) are keeping hush-hush about cases or is there just not enough to connect cases to park visitations? It's different that in schools where you know who is coming and going and if there is a case among students or staff, you KNOW who within the school has been exposed (masks or not).

 

[DisneyDebRob]

So is negative Nancy.

She must have left when I got here.

 

[crawale]

Sorry if this has already been asked.

Have there been ANY confirmed cases of COVID-19 at Disney World (or anyone who visited and tested positive when they returned)?

Also, what is/will be the protocol if there are any confirmed cases at or from WDW? Would they close the entire park down again if they have any cases? Is there a protocol in place?

How could anyone possibly know that they had gotten COVID from Disney?

 

[Piebald]

Based on people I know in management at UO, lots of sick team members. On reddit, that seems to be echoed further as well. So far Disney does not appear to have it that bad but to be fair UO has been opened for much longer so it could be timing, luck or a big difference in practices. I'm not yet convinced its the latter, so possibly the 2 aforementioned.

 

[DisneyDebRob]

On that subject, a friend just had a heart attack the other day. Living in a county next to a major FL city there is a rural hospital. However, everyone here chooses to pass it up and go into the city for superior healthcare. When the ambulance came the family asked for her to be taken to their hospital of choice in the city. They were informed that there were no available beds. They asked for their second pick. Then they were informed that of the 8 hospitals in the city there were NO BEDS AVAILABLE. She had to go to the rural hospital. She was very fortunate in that the heart attack was more mild and she ended up not needing emergency surgery, but that detail was not known when she was being picked up by the ambulance. This is not a place known for it's professionalism and expertise. It doesn't even have a maternity ward. I would be terrified if I was having a heart attack and I was told that hospital was my only option for care.

The takeaway? No beds available for a heart attack victim is not something to tote as a non-issue. How many other people were turned away for needed care that day? I don't want to know.

Hopefully she is doing ok!

 

[Chomama]

I cannot for the life of me understand why some people seem to have an agenda to minimize the effects of this virus.

After months of this on social media, the news and real life I -think- people who already struggle with black and white thinking can’t handle the uncertainty of the current situation. The anxiety is overwhelming for everyone and some people are not able to occupy that uncertainty well. It is a coping mechanism and not an intentional callousness At least that’s the best I can come up with. And I say that with empathy for both sides. If someone lives in the black and white they are not ABLE to see that that is what they are doing. It really isn’t malicious but it also isn’t really going to change and the amount of maturity it takes to accept what is happening in our country without becoming emotionally crippled is not as common as one would hope. My thoughts only