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You know what else we've not seen anywhere else? Families being welded into their homes. People dragged into the street and loaded into boxes in the back of pickup trucks to be taken who-knows-where. Long lines of mourners outside funeral homes that received mass deliveries of urns for deaths that weren't happening (if you believe the CCP).
I'm sure park hopping will return even if the park reservation system stays. It would be easy to implement. Once you are in your first park you go onto MDE and pick the park you want to hop to. It really isn't such a bad thing.
It’s not bad. But it’s more steps added to a formerly care free vacation.
I don't find Disney to be a care free vacation. Way to much planning involved to be care free. Now Universal is very much a care free vacation.
Disneyland still is. (Or was?).
Thats because DL is a locals park. We just pop in for an afternoon or a morning stroll. The vacationers get the whole day (and fastpasses).
I think my family (who just has to pack their clothes and follow me to the airport/hotel/room/parks/meals/etc finds it a VERY relaxing vacation!
The traditional fastpass does help a lot. But wdw used to have the same feel. It’s not just a local vs. tourist park imho.
It’s because Disneyland has more hourly capacity. It hasn’t been at the forefront of minimizing attractions per guest per hour for decades. The long waits we are starting to see at Walt Disney World are the result of deliberately suppressing capacity with shell games, namely FastPass but also the many other reservations and up charges . The parks look crowded even with a reduced cap because for years now they have been designed to create crowding.
...indeed
Park hopping is an upcharge millions of guests opt for, I don’t think there‘s any way Disney is going to permanently eliminate something that makes hundreds of millions a year that costs them nothing.
Every time we get one of those "It's no worse than the flu!" posts, it might help to review the yearly flu numbers from the CDC:
Burden of Influenza
Learn about how CDC estimates the burden of seasonal influenza in the U.S.www.cdc.gov
Even in the worst year recently, we only hit about 60K deaths for the flu. We've already hit almost 4 times that number for COVID this year, not to mention all the "long COVID" (as the after effects are being called), cases. We're still gathering the numbers on these, but the preliminary estimates aren't pretty.
Finally... the common cold kills virtually nobody, so don't even go down that path.
PS- Yes, I would too would like FS+ to be restricted to resort guests.
The comparison becomes still more problematic when one bears in mind that we’re dealing with reported deaths in the case of Covid and estimates in the case of the flu:
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The comparison becomes still more problematic when one bears in mind that we’re dealing with reported deaths in the case of Covid and estimates in the case of the flu:
Assessment of Deaths From COVID-19 and From Seasonal Influenza
This Viewpoint uses publicly available data to analyze the number of deaths from seasonal influenza deaths compared with deaths from coronavirus disease 2019.
Alas, as an expat Brit watching events back home with horror, I don’t have the same optimistic outlook. The pandemic could (and should) have been confronted much more effectively than it has been.
It could be a whole lot worse, agreed. It also could have been a lot better. I mean with close to a thousand deaths a day, it seems everyone has just got used to it. I’ll say it again.. close to a thousand a day. We have become immune to the figures. It’s a shame there is still talk about it not being bad.. or worse..”not a pandemic “.