Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

[Casper Gutman]

To be fair, so far I have seen an overwhelming majority of reports talk about mask rules being followed at WDW. Capacity is obviously a help (including overall park capacity, bus capacity, restaurant capacity, pool capacity and ride vehicle spacing) but the masks are the main safety measure.

But the masks come off when you eat. And drink. How often do they stay on in rides and shows, where the lights are off, both official and social-stigma-based enforcement is impossible, and people want to relax? What measures are in place to track and deal with repeat offenders? Have we had any reports of people being kicked out or in any other way punished for non-compliance?

 

[jaklgreen]

I have a lot of friends and co-workers in TX and we talked about something similar back in April/May. They really got off rather easy at that point in time and a lot of people thought masks weren’t necessary for their area. We were talking about it in context of opening our offices back up and they felt it wasn’t right to have the same rules as the office in NJ since the situation was so different up here. Flash forward to today...they shoulda had that mask rule all along. In certain very rural places it’s possible to never need masks, but even then, it won’t kill anyone to wear one.

I am just waiting for that to happen here. It is crazy how different it is here compared to most other places. Granted, we are a more spread out state with fewer people, but still.

 

[schuelma]

Florida Nurse Warns ‘Nursing Shortage’ About To Hit State As COVID-19 Puts Strain On Hospital Systems

Dr. Wilson is the associate director of emergency management at Tampa General Hospital. He said the volume of COVID patients coming to the hospital is five times higher than it was a month and a half ago.

“We’ve really done everything we can to try to keep patients out of the hospital who don’t need to be in the hospital,” said Dr. Wilson.
It’s a direr situation in South Florida. There are just 10 ICU beds left in all of Miami-Dade County.

“Miami is now the epicenter of the pandemic. What we were seeing in Wuhan six months ago, five months ago, now we are there,” said Dr. Lilian Abbo.

 

[Miss Bella]

Nearly one-third of children tested for COVID in Florida are positive. Palm Beach County’s health director warns of risk of long-term damage

Nearly one-in-three children tested for the new coronavirus in Florida has been positive, and a South Florida health official is concerned the disease could cause lifelong damage even for children …

www.sun-sentinel.com

@legwand77 Everything still fine?

You're on the wrong thread.

 

[DCBaker]

Numbers are out -

 

[Horizons '83]

Numbers are out -

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156 deaths is troubling.

 

[DisneyDebRob]

156 deaths is troubling.

That whole chart is troubling. I’m sure it’s all fine as you will see very soon.

 

[oceanbreeze77]

156 deaths. 156.


one hundred fifty six deaths.

 

[oceanbreeze77]

what's also troubling is a higher positivity rate with 116000 tests.

 

[oceanbreeze77]

and nearly 500 hospitalizations.

none of this is good

 

[Casper Gutman]

How long before northeastern states with rising case counts start specifically naming WDW as a culprit, the way Myrtle Beach has been?

 

[Andrew C]

Numbers are out -

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Same same. Turning into quite a plateau now.

 

[schuelma]

Same same. Turning into quite a plateau now.

If this is the plateau, Florida is in absolutely horrible shape.

 

[Andrew C]

THIS

is extremely upsetting to me.

U.S. coronavirus data has already disappeared after Trump administration shifted control from CDC to HHS

"We were surprised because the modules that we normally go to were empty. The data wasn't available and not there," Ryan Panchadsaram, a coronavirus researcher, said. "There was no warning."

www.cnbc.com

Really? After reading the article and a couple others similar, I feel good about it. Seems like a good thing IMO.

 

[Horizons '83]

Same same. Turning into quite a plateau now.

From a case perspective I agree, I think the death and hospitalization increases are something to be concerned about or at least something to follow closely.

 

[Andrew C]

From a case perspective I agree, I think the death and hospitalization increases are something to be concerned about or at least something to follow closely.

Yeah. I was referring to the case and positivity rate trends. Once hospitalizations increased, it was unfortunately safe to say that some type of death increase would follow.

 

[Andrew C]

I would like to know which part or parts of the state are contributing to the hospitalizations. And where it is flat or declining.

 

[Rider]

Florida coronavirus deaths grow by record 156; new cases up nearly 14K

Florida reported 13,965 new coronavirus cases and a record 156 new deaths on Thursday, a day that also saw a record increase in new hospitalizations. Statewide, there have now been 315,775 infected…

www.orlandosentinel.com

 

[schuelma]

Florida coronavirus deaths grow by record 156; new cases up nearly 14K

Florida reported 13,965 new coronavirus cases and a record 156 new deaths on Thursday, a day that also saw a record increase in new hospitalizations. Statewide, there have now been 315,775 infected…

www.orlandosentinel.com

From that article:

For the latest weekly period ended Sunday, Florida reported 511 additional deaths, by far the most since the pandemic began. The previous weekly record for new deaths statewide was 342 in early May.

 

[Casper Gutman]

From a case perspective I agree, I think the death and hospitalization increases are something to be concerned about or at least something to follow closely.

Unless I am mistaken, given the lag of 19 to 20 days, if cases have plateaued, we should expect negative outcomes to increase for about two weeks before leveling off. Which is unimaginably awful.