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The jury is out on whether climate controlled environments encourage the spread of the infection in enclosed environments. I guess over the next few months the Southern states will provide the evidence. The suggestion is that climate control measures (keeping air cold) in the meat packing...

The point was that the pandemic has moved beyond the mandatory quarantine list, as these things do. Lists and exclusions can't keep up with the geography of the outbreaks.

How? A State can have a relatively low rate of infection, but a city or county in that State could have a major spike. What could Florida be specifying about inter-state travel that protects against this?

The announced opening of DVC Resorts in June (although parks will be closed) kind of blows this one out of the water because there is no mechanism that says DVC members from hot spot areas will be excluded from making June bookings.

Well immediately after 9/11, it was the Brits and other Europeans who came because they had booked and paid whilst a lot of Americans stayed away. During the 2008 recession, I suspect WDW was kept afloat by the very many Americans who were not hit as hard by the economy flat lining -- the...

Indoor rides like Little Mermaid...You are still on a track passing through air others have breathed (but not screaming...) and as such are in a situation where you are in an enclosed space.

I think there is quite a bit of evidence out there (remember the study of restaurant transmission from some months ago) that this is borne in the air transmission. So whether it is "classified" or not, they wouldn't be recommending face masks in countries around the globe if they didn't believe...

I think I have made this point in an earlier post, but if you wear no mask on a ride, breathing in and out hard because of the adrenaline rush, maybe even screaming as you hit a drop, you are putting lots of particulates into the air. The carriage behind you then passes through those...

Can I make a rental in these areas if I am from out of State or from another country, or do I have to quarantine for a period once I arrive at the rental?

Does this show that women are bigger risk takers than men (contrary to popular science...)

Thoughtful post that highlights one side of the epidemiological equation -- the psychology of whether people can or will follow social distance in a park environment (and there may be regional differences of course based on prevalent localized attitudes to the disease and apparent infection...

Are Six Flag parks mainly servicing a localized customer base, or do they attract guests who fly in from out of state? If they are the former, then they are only testing part of the equation and not a key element which would be whether someone flying in from a hot spot (say Iowa) is then...

Problem is that if you have extra seating, you are going to need extra cast members to sanitize the seating once someone gets up and before another guest sits down.

Interesting. I didn't realize Castaway Cay staff lived on the island. Has Disney indicated what steps it is taking to protect it's workers on Castaway Cay? Will masks be required etc?

I suspect this is where it may go, but to make it financially viable -- ie, |I am charging you $140 for your 4-hour window in order to have ultra low capacity attendance during that window -- you need to have a unique product to sell that excludes APs and Hoppers etc. Hence the "party" concept...

I know you got it, and I was not offended.

Without getting back into the revolving argument about asymptomatic spreaders, the point of my post was to take issue with the suggestion that the important point was that Americans might be infected by foreigners, when there is a just as compelling view that foreigners may be worried about...

An interesting thought might be re-opening MK on a "party" only basis. Have a morning breakfast party for a couple of hours, separately ticketed of course, for a limited number of guests with a food offering (book your socially distanced table in advance). Clear out those guests, then offer...

I think you are seeing this from the wrong angle: do countries in the Carib., which may have limited ICU facilities, really want daily influxes of thousands of Americans when infection rates are still high in the U.S. They are desperate for the tourism income, but must be worried that...

On a more serious note about the Astrazeneca vaccine -- the company appears to have drug production facilities in the UK, Sweden (may just save their bacon from their herd immunity experiment) and Maryland in the U.S. so there could be prospects for early vaccine availability on the East Coast...