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Orlando might have a rough year or two. Their status will basically follow the country’s status, but it won’t become Detroit or another hallowed out 20th century industrial city. You just can’t pack up theme parks and off shore those jobs.

In an ideal world they wouldn’t have took on a ton of debt buying buying 20th Century Fox and would have a ton of their own cash on hand and not have to go put more debt on the books to keep the lights on in Burbank. The value of your own cash on hand is something Steve Jobs must of never...

State political pressure isn’t why they are open. They planned on having Disneyland open now, and that wasn’t because of state political pressure. It is the economic pressure of operating a business that lost their biggest sources of revenue that caused them to open and is keeping them open.

It is kind of hard to be the face of Disney when the guy that thinks he is the face of Disney hasn’t left the scene and is still your boss. I don’t know if Chapek will be better at the public face role if Iger leaves the scene, but I do know he is smart enough not to upstage the boss. We won’t...

If they didn’t want anyone the wouldn’t be offering AP and Florida resident discounts. They want guests, Bob Iger is just worried about the backlash he would face from certain sectors that would paint general public discounts as Disney trying to encourage the spread of the virus across the...

Eisner bought Capital Cities and made it’s ESPN into it a money making machine that allowed Iger to go on his buying spree. Without the money making machine that ESPN was for a decade and half, nothing that happened under Iger could have happened. Also, Iger never would have been at Disney...

You cut deals with the estates of dead actors and you cut deals with actors that have aged past their prime earnings years.

Death trails hospitalization by weeks normally. Are the hospitalization numbers correct?

Are the hospitalization numbers in that post incorrect? I’m not being a SA, I’m genuinely asking. That would seem to be more important than the messenger.

I want to know what some people are on when they ask for amounts like the Poly you mentioned.

Pay per view VOD makes much more financial sense to companies like AT&T and to a lesser extent Comcast than Disney. AT&T reaches hundreds of millions of more customers on platforms like their cable, satellite, cell and internet Provider services where they don’t have share a percentage of the...

But that isn’t really public health science. That is an emotional response.

Are going with your family? If so, book a room at one of their version of a deluxe resort. That will get you all Express Passes.

It is rate of positives for a two week Reporting period not a one week period. The last two week period was slightly lower than the previous two week period. That said, it was the smallest drop in the rate of positives in a long time for the two week reporting periods

It is harder to price differently when the demand isn’t there and cruise demand is going to be down for a longtime.

And SARS spread was easier to stop because there was not asymptotic carriers.

No, people will stop staying on site without the 60 day window.

They already charge for it without people realizing how much they are actually paying for it. FP+ 60 day booking window is one of the main reasons they can charge the on site resort rates they do. Plus, the good neighbor hotels pay a substantial amount to Disney for their guests to get the...

Any schedule on when they will start refunding purchases of Dining Plans?

This, if they have to stay at CSR to get that 20 million they will.