Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

[DisneyOutsider]

I am stupid in love with Disney World but also have severe anxiety. It speaks volumes for me that I still want to go. That is how confident the plan makes me feel. I can't explain it any other way. I just think they are going to do this right. I really do.

I became much less confident when it became clear that they were letting anyone off the street come in and hang out at Deluxe resorts if they want to no questions asked.

 

[milordsloth]

I became much less confident when it became clear that they were letting anyone off the street come in and hang out at Deluxe resorts of they want to no questions asked.

.... what? I was under the impression you need to be a guest or have a dining reservation to be able to enter the resorts?

 

[Miss Bella]

but. You just said it is imperative they act NOW. So, if they are utilizing an emergency plan as you said they are, that is acting, right? If the are pulling back on openings, they are acting, right. If they are requesting nurses, they are acting, right?

I’m not sure what the posters motivation is. They came out with a plan they are getting medical staff and the closed bars. Sounds like they are doing something.

 

[Miss Bella]

.... what? I was under the impression you need to be a guest or have a dining reservation to be able to enter the resorts?

This is what I thought to.

 

[toolsnspools]

Wow! Just came across this on the CDC website. (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/testing/serology-overview.html)

What do your results mean?
If you test positive

• A positive test result shows you may have antibodies from an infection with the virus that causes COVID-19. However, there is a chance a positive result means that you have antibodies from an infection with a virus from the same family of viruses (called coronaviruses), such as the one that causes the common cold.

So the CDC just combined the results from the antibody test and the viral test, and the numbers are dramatically increasing, but the antibody test may show positive if you've ever had a cold. I'll be watching the fatality numbers closer than ever.

 

[milordsloth]

I’m not sure what the posters motivation is. They came out with a plan they are getting medical staff and the closed bars. Sounds like they are doing something.

I am pretty confused with what you are trying to say here... The poster is doing something? Or Arizona is doing something?

 

[Miss Bella]

I am pretty confused with what you are trying to say here... The poster is doing something? Or Arizona is doing something?

Arizona. I’m pretty sure the posters not doing anything.

 

[Miss Bella]

Wow! Just came across this on the CDC website. (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/testing/serology-overview.html)

What do your results mean?
If you test positive

• A positive test result shows you may have antibodies from an infection with the virus that causes COVID-19. However, there is a chance a positive result means that you have antibodies from an infection with a virus from the same family of viruses (called coronaviruses), such as the one that causes the common cold.

So the CDC just combined the results from the antibody test and the viral test, and the numbers are dramatically increasing, but the antibody test may show positive if you've ever had a cold. I'll be watching the fatality numbers closer than ever.

Everyone I work withs tested negative for antibodies. Myself included.

 

[GoofGoof]

Wow! Just came across this on the CDC website. (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/testing/serology-overview.html)

What do your results mean?
If you test positive

• A positive test result shows you may have antibodies from an infection with the virus that causes COVID-19. However, there is a chance a positive result means that you have antibodies from an infection with a virus from the same family of viruses (called coronaviruses), such as the one that causes the common cold.

So the CDC just combined the results from the antibody test and the viral test, and the numbers are dramatically increasing, but the antibody test may show positive if you've ever had a cold. I'll be watching the fatality numbers closer than ever.

The antibody tests are not combined with virus tests in the Florida numbers posted here daily. The dashboard has a separate section that shows antibody testing. At one point they tried to combine them but got called out on it by some media type. The combining wasn’t to make the total positive look higher it was to reduce the percent positive. Since the antibody testing rate is below 4% and the current percent positive is nearing 15% if they combined both sets of tests then the actual current percent positive would be much higher.

 

[DisneyOutsider]

.... what? I was under the impression you need to be a guest or have a dining reservation to be able to enter the resorts?

I've seen multiple different videos on YouTube of people taking the bus from Disney Springs and waltzing right in to whatever resort they want just to hang out.

 

[Miss Bella]

I've seen multiple different videos on YouTube of people taking the bus from Disney Springs and waltzing right in to whatever resort they want just to hang out.

Hasn’t it always been that way?

 

[milordsloth]

I've seen multiple different videos on YouTube of people taking the bus from Disney Springs and waltzing right in to whatever resort they want just to hang out.

Interesting.. I guess it makes sense they aren't going to check everyone on the bus. I heard they are checking if you walk up though. Anyways all that says to me is I do have a chance to see some of the other resorts now! Maybe I'll get lucky and be able to spot some of the NBA guys lol.

 

[TrojanUSC]

Wow! Just came across this on the CDC website. (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/testing/serology-overview.html)

What do your results mean?
If you test positive

• A positive test result shows you may have antibodies from an infection with the virus that causes COVID-19. However, there is a chance a positive result means that you have antibodies from an infection with a virus from the same family of viruses (called coronaviruses), such as the one that causes the common cold.

So the CDC just combined the results from the antibody test and the viral test, and the numbers are dramatically increasing, but the antibody test may show positive if you've ever had a cold. I'll be watching the fatality numbers closer than ever.

You are reading from the section about antibody tests, which means you had the active virus at one point but not anymore. It has little to do with the daily numbers we look at every day.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Hasn’t it always been that way?

Yes. Disney had announced that you would need dining reservations to visit a resort. My guess is they will implement that rule when / if they deem it necessary.

I’m guessing it’s being enforced at the security gate... meaning you have to have a reservation to park at the resort.

 

[GoofGoof]

I've seen multiple different videos on YouTube of people taking the bus from Disney Springs and waltzing right in to whatever resort they want just to hang out.

That’s a bad move. If I’m paying top dollar to be at a deluxe resort and they are going to limit capacity in lobbies, restaurants and other common areas I want the place limited to paying hotel guests only. In normal times I think it’s fun to hop the monorail and just pretend I’m staying at the Polynesian by eating at Captain Cooks but these aren’t normal times and I’d be pretty upset if I paid to stay there and the limited socially distanced seats were all full.

 

[milordsloth]

The antibody tests are not combined with virus tests in the Florida numbers posted here daily. The dashboard has a separate section that shows antibody testing. At one point they tried to combine them but got called out on it by some media type. The combining wasn’t to make the total positive look higher it was to reduce the percent positive. Since the antibody testing rate is below 4% and the current percent positive is nearing 15% if they combined both sets of tests then the actual current percent positive would be much higher.

I was under the impression that the antibody test shows if you have been exposed to Covid-19.. But this sentence, "However, there is a chance a positive result means that you have antibodies from an infection with a virus from the same family of viruses (called coronaviruses), such as the one that causes the common cold.", reads as if even exposure to the common cold will give a result? Do they differentiate between antibodies from the different coronaviruses somehow?

Definitely more to this than I thought, guess I have some reading to do.

 

[DisneyOutsider]

Hasn’t it always been that way?

Yes, but I would hope that they would police their new reservation-only Covid policy

 

[Miss Bella]

Yes. Disney had announced that you would need dining reservations to visit a resort. My guess is they will implement that rule when / if they deem it necessary.

I’m guessing it’s being enforced at the security gate... meaning you have to have a reservation to park at the resort.

It’s pretty hard to enforce with the DS busses. I’ve never taken that route to visit another resort. It’s too time consuming, but the parks are closed and there is nothing else to do. I’d probably do some resort hoping.

 

[GoofGoof]

Yes. Disney had announced that you would need dining reservations to visit a resort. My guess is they will implement that rule when / if they deem it necessary.

I’m guessing it’s being enforced at the security gate... meaning you have to have a reservation to park at the resort.

Good point on when its necessary. Right now they may need lurkers to keep the restaurants open. It’s only DVC rooms and those aren’t very full. They will probably take any money they can get. Could be that once the parks open they stop that.

 

[GoofGoof]

I was under the impression that the antibody test shows if you have been exposed to Covid-19.. But this sentence, "However, there is a chance a positive result means that you have antibodies from an infection with a virus from the same family of viruses (called coronaviruses), such as the one that causes the common cold.", reads as if even exposure to the common cold will give a result? Do they differentiate between antibodies from the different coronaviruses somehow?

Definitely more to this than I thought, guess I have some reading to do.

That disclaimer has always been there on the antibody testing since the start. I think it was posted somewhere a while back that the tests around today are somewhere over 90% accurate. The false positives could be due to other coronaviruses. The antibody testing has a percent positive under 5% in most places.