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Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

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Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

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LUVMCO said:
More likely because it’s the same ten people saying the same thing day after day. On any other forum this thread would have been locked 2000 pages ago.
Since it’s now a political thread on a Disney forum. It has nothing to do with Disney. If I want to debate politics and what’s going on the world there are better places.
I guess the people that run this forum are desperate for whatever clicks they can get.
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What is stopping people from Disney?

(Softball question)
 
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techgeek

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LUVMCO said:
More likely because it’s the same ten people saying the same thing day after day. On any other forum this thread would have been locked 2000 pages ago.
Since it’s now a political thread on a Disney forum. It has nothing to do with Disney. If I want to debate politics and what’s going on the world there are better places.
I guess the people that run this forum are desperate for whatever clicks they can get.
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No one is forcing you to participate, but as I’ve always said this particular thread is a unique and important venue to have these sorts of discussions. Disney has brought together a mix of people that absent that shared interest, likely would not have formed to discuss this topic with the endurance, thought, depth, and passion seen here.

If we all thought exactly the same way, it would indeed be a useless echo chamber. As it stands, it is not, and even though I don’t agree with many of your thoughts on the virus I do personally value your perspective and think it helps foster genuine discussion.

At the moment, the unprecedented political scene has made politics an unavoidable part of almost every part of our lives, including Coronavirus and Disney. Hopefully, whatever happens this week upholds the tradition of peaceful elections we have enjoyed in America in our lifetimes, and the partisan politics can take a back burner in this discussion again.
 
Miss Bella

Miss Bella

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techgeek said:
No one is forcing you to participate, but as I’ve always said this particular thread is a unique and important venue to have these sorts of discussions. Disney has brought together a mix of people that absent that shared interest, likely would not have formed to discuss this topic with the endurance, thought, depth, and passion seen here.

If we all thought exactly the same way, it would indeed be a useless echo chamber. As it stands, it is not, and even though I don’t agree with many of your thoughts on the virus I do personally value your perspective and think it helps foster genuine discussion.

At the moment, the unprecedented political scene has made politics an unavoidable part of almost every part of our lives, including Coronavirus and Disney. Hopefully, whatever happens this week upholds the tradition of peaceful elections we have enjoyed in America in our lifetimes, and the partisan politics can take a back burner in this discussion again.
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It pretty much is a useless echo chamber when you only have a handful of people that want to participate. It’s a shame they starting allowing politics in the non political section. Like I said there are plenty of forums to discuss political issues and there are plenty of Disney forums that don’t allow politics.
The back and forth bashing political figures probably turns a lot of people off. It used to be a interesting thread.
Like you said no one has to participate. Their forum. Their rules.
 
Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

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techgeek said:
No one is forcing you to participate, but as I’ve always said this particular thread is a unique and important venue to have these sorts of discussions. Disney has brought together a mix of people that absent that shared interest, likely would not have formed to discuss this topic with the endurance, thought, depth, and passion seen here.

If we all thought exactly the same way, it would indeed be a useless echo chamber. As it stands, it is not, and even though I don’t agree with many of your thoughts on the virus I do personally value your perspective and think it helps foster genuine discussion.

At the moment, the unprecedented political scene has made politics an unavoidable part of almost every part of our lives, including Coronavirus and Disney. Hopefully, whatever happens this week upholds the tradition of peaceful elections we have enjoyed in America in our lifetimes, and the partisan politics can take a back burner in this discussion again.
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I get that people didn’t want to concentrate on the virus...at first...and keep it all Disney.

Totally get that. But I’ll say it for the 500th time - and luv doesn’t want to hear it - this is the most severe disruption to Disney P&R by a nautical mile...and it can’t honestly be untangled from covid. It cannot. And until people get less selfish and stop valuing their own opinions over the consensus judgment on how best to proceed...we won’t get straight Disney.

Do you want it...or don’t you??
 
Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

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techgeek said:
No one is forcing you to participate, but as I’ve always said this particular thread is a unique and important venue to have these sorts of discussions. Disney has brought together a mix of people that absent that shared interest, likely would not have formed to discuss this topic with the endurance, thought, depth, and passion seen here.

If we all thought exactly the same way, it would indeed be a useless echo chamber. As it stands, it is not, and even though I don’t agree with many of your thoughts on the virus I do personally value your perspective and think it helps foster genuine discussion.

At the moment, the unprecedented political scene has made politics an unavoidable part of almost every part of our lives, including Coronavirus and Disney. Hopefully, whatever happens this week upholds the tradition of peaceful elections we have enjoyed in America in our lifetimes, and the partisan politics can take a back burner in this discussion again.
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I get that people didn’t want to concentrate on the virus...at first...and keep it all Disney.

Totally get that. But I’ll say it for the 500th time - and luv doesn’t want to hear it - this is the most severe disruption to Disney P&R by a nautical mile...and it can’t honestly be untangled from covid. It cannot. And until people get less selfish and stop valuing their own opinions over the consensus judgment on how best to proceed...we won’t get straight Disney.

Do you want it...or don’t you?
 
GoofGoof

GoofGoof

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LUVMCO said:
It pretty much is a useless echo chamber when you only have a handful of people that want to participate. It’s a shame they starting allowing politics in the non political section. Like I said there are plenty of forums to discuss political issues and there are plenty of Disney forums that don’t allow politics.
The back and forth bashing political figures probably turns a lot of people off. It used to be a interesting thread.
Like you said no one has to participate. Their forum. Their rules.
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I’m not a fan of the off topic political banter either. I think it’s fair game to be critical of the current administration for their national response on Covid and certainly fair game to be critical of the governors of FL and CA for their less than stellar handling of parts of their state responses since it directly impacts the Disney parks. You can’t completely keep politics out, but it should be kept on topic.
 
Tom P.

Tom P.

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hopemax said:
States will.

I expect it here in Colorado. IMO, Governors are trying to get through next week. No sense locking people down if we're having civil war instead :D But once that is resolved, then I expect the states that aren't trying to kill their constituents will start pulling back significantly. We've already had several moves in that direction, even in one of our more freedom counties.
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I've been saying this for a while now. Well, perhaps without the civil war part. :) But right now, incumbent politicians have an enormous amount of political pressure to make things look as good and normal as possible going into the election. Once that is in the rearview mirror, regardless of who wins and who loses, I think we will start to see a change of tone on Covid. Numbers have been looking bad for some time now, and are likely only to get worse as cold and flu season intensifies.

I do not think we will see a national push for a lockdown, but I do think one-by-one you will start to see individual states go that route again. It will likely look different than it did in March and April, just as England's new lockdown has more exceptions than it did before. I think we have learned a lot, and I also think people's tolerances are different at this stage. But I do think going back to more restrictions is pretty inevitable for the fall and winter.
 
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