Trending the right way. Hopefully it drops low enough to get off the travel quarantine lists before plateauing again. Needs to get below 2,100 cases a day on average. Getting off those lists could be critical for WDW to have any kind of a holiday bump.
The quarantine list is going to be the last thing in the list for a holiday bump. People need to work to have a Disney vacation and many aren't right now.
True, but based on some economic studies I have seen only about 20% of the US workforce is in industries that are the hardest hit by covid. Namely: restaurants, travel, entertainment and physical retail. That means 80% of workers are in industries not as heavily impacted. Here is the bureau of labor statistics study done back in April on impacted industries. It shows that only 20% of the workforce was in highly impacted industries and those workers only made 12% of wages due to a lot of lower paid hourly workers in all of those industries. It is true that there is an ancillary impact to other areas and for some people a general unease to spend frivolously on vacations in a time of crisis, but the point is there is still disposable income out there if the situation improves.
I just hope that schools opening physically (especially colleges) don’t cause another spike in numbers. The natural 3 month arc should mean a return to lower cases by mid-September but that could get derailed if there’s another uptick. I actually think nationwide we may see a bit of a dip through Sept/Oct as people just naturally do less outside the home. With many schools going virtual, many offices still remote and the prime vacation season coming to an end the trend should be downward. Just a theory, but here’s to hoping.
we MAY see a slight increase because of schools opening, but hopefully it won't be as bad as the summer spike. Hopefully its just a small hill.
Yippee
. All this tells me is reservations are not there for the people they really want in the parks. Its going to be along while before Disney sees the high profits coming in.A happy CM is a productive CM. Keep them happy.Yippee
news.nd.edu
"University of Notre Dame President Fr. John Jenkins announced today that in-person classes are suspended, effective Wednesday, replaced by remote instruction only for the next two weeks because positive rates for the coronavirus continue to climb:"
"Until further notice, off-campus students should not visit campus. On-campus students should refrain from leaving campus except under emergency circumstances. Student gatherings off or on campus are restricted to 10 people or fewer."
Notre Dame enacts two weeks of remote instruction
University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., announced today that, effective Wednesday, in-person classes for the University’s...
If anyone expects college students to obey COVID-19 restrictions while living away from their parents on college campuses, they need to have their head examined. It's just not going to happen. Colleges may as well just accept now that they are going to end up all virtual sooner rather than later because they cannot control their students' behavior. Saying "we're coming back to campus with strict social distancing and mask guidelines in place" sounds great on paper, but will never happen in real life.
They will. Unless they don't report cases, the opening of schools will certainly cause a spike. How big and how long depends on where it is and how it is handled.
I think it’s a money thing for a lot of schools. People are already griping that they should get money back if the University is all virtual so if you at least start with physical classes you avoid some of those gripes. Then when you pivot from physical to virtual you blame the student‘s behavior for the spike in cases and bingo...no refunds for anyone.
So it’s now UNC sending all the kids home.. ND thinking about doing the same thing... now Michigan State going fully remote for the semester. Is there any word of any other schools?
I know there’s were a bunch of colleges that didn’t even try to start physical. I think Pitt also had an outbreak their first week. I wonder how the ACC football season continues if UNC and Notre Dame both pull out and there are issues at Pitt and other schools as well. Seems like the college football season is hanging by a very worn thread. If one more conference shuts it down the other 2 will have no choice but to follow.
