I think yours is a good translation, unfortunately. I'd think anyone who has been paying attention to what's been said in this thread could find a bit more charitable summary of what most of us here have been saying.
Agreed. Pointing out that covid deaths are high or higher than they need to be isn’t rooting for deaths. Where do people get this stuff from. As far as preventive measures, I’m not sure how anyone can say anything done in the US to date comes remotely close to extreme measures designed to prevent every last death. If they were it’s an epic fail looking at deaths per capita vs most other places (top 10 worst in the world
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169,000 tests and 8.84% positivity.
Ask a friend that works in medical development or for the FDA (either side of the conversation, don't we all know someone that worked to get approval?). They'll tell you that in written response with the FDA, every sentence and word is analyzed. Everything is looked at for the hidden meaning that some legal process says they cannot say directly. Every indication that the applicant should explore X but cannot be called out directly.
Wife is in pharma consulting for clinical trials and provider education around them, so your point is well taken and understood. But the last twenty minutes of the meeting leading up to the vote was pretty heated (and some of the concerns were valid).
Seems to me they have a bit more at stake than we do here.
Of course. It was my poor attempt at being light hearted. Sheesh
No problem, I was still in universal at the time and didn’t go into great detail, but, I am not one who is overly cautious so these few things did not deter me directly, however: 1) the distancing is VERY minimal, there are few who enforce the rules, but far less then Disney (IMO), 2) the mask guidelines are very open, neck gaiters are allowed, face shields (from what I saw) are allowed. 3) I have heard Disney is now no longer distancing parties on attractions, for me, I don’t really care one way or the other but consistency would be nice, for example, on Hagrids, no distancing (assuming for capacity and what not) but then all other attractions are and their wait times are suffering due to it. I have also found, as many of us know, the parks have substantially less to do, when you’re not waiting in such long lines, being held up by massive crowds, and what not, for that reason we were pretty much done with islands of adventure by 2. It was 59°, so the three water rides weren’t really an option. I saw some people with their “First Visit” buttons from Disney and honestly feel bad for them. Also a little annoyance from my Harry Potter fan side, JK Rowling was painstakingly specific on the attention to detail and accuracy within the Wizarding World, whether it be Hogsmeade or Diagon Alley, universal has used the pandemic to STRONGLY cheapen that experience. I know this is not a Universal board, but as someone who has been going to Disney extremely often since I was young, and frequenting Universal often enough, I assume the dilution of theming and care applies to Disney as well at the moment. Take all this with a grain of salt, if you’re a park regular (AP, local,etc), go to the parks and enjoy your time, but if you’re a once in a lifetime, once every few years kind of person wanting to travel during the pandemic, I would argue that the parks are just not worth their sticker price.
Sorry. My mistake.
Doesn’t always translate. No worries
How has the experience been cheapened?
Not the ticket prices
From what I’ve seen, they have 1-2 out of Wizarding costumes who are “Guest Experience Support”, they just hold up signs that say to distance and what not. The team members aren’t really in character anymore, I assume that’s the byproduct of the work conditions and loss of morale from layoffs and just the general climate. However, it does affect the experience, they’ve also put up many of those large blue signs about distancing and such, they could have made them themed and more specific to the Wizarding World. There was a few more things here and there but those two are the biggest I could point out at the moment.
When we were there in August, there was something jarring about the blue signs and reminders that removed so much of the theming. I understand the consistent messaging argument by having uniform signs throughout the park, but it was odd. I think I saw in another thread the brilliant idea of making the signs in WWoHP be formatted to look like Umbridge’s decrees.
I expected either Ministry Warnings or something akin to Umbridge’s decree. It’s very garish and jarring, that’s really all I would have to say on that.