Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

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lisa12000

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how I wish the uk government had stuck to their plan! Our infection rates were dropping prior to our lockdown it has been shown just by social distancing and washing hands! Meanwhile our case numbers aren’t going down and our government are putting in increasingly draconian measures for individuals and regions! And also allowing local councils to do what they want basically including not allowing families to meet, keeping parks closed and not opening gyms etc with no consultation and no discussion

we had a small outbreak in my local down - we have 64 cases in 4 weeks primarily in BAME areas with high density housing - of those 64 only 6 were last week and our rate of infection is now below the national average - yet our council are going to limit people In shops more, restrict access to local parks and even close down businesses! For a total of 5 cases in a week and a drop in rate of infection from 27 to 7! Madness
 

hopemax

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Can we check back in with Sweden after their typical 5-7 week National summer vacation is over? The one that shuts down schools and many work facilities.

Because if the US was able to shut down the majority of its factories and offices for 5 weeks, I am sure cases here would drop too. Sweden always shuts down mid June-mid August, and since it’s always the case they don’t have to risk economic fallout. But it still functions as a lockdown. Just one that was “previously scheduled,” for the last 100 years or so.
 

DisneyDebRob

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Can we check back in with Sweden after their typical 5-7 week National summer vacation is over? The one that shuts down schools and many work facilities.

Because if the US was able to shut down the majority of its factories and offices for 5 weeks, I am sure cases here would drop too. Sweden always shuts down mid June-mid August, and since it’s always the case they don’t have to risk economic fallout. But it still functions as a lockdown. Just one that was “previously scheduled,” for the last 100 years or so.
We don’t need to wait that long to check out how they did, but you do bring up another point.The economy tanked just like the rest of the world that locked down. Neighboring countries..Denmark,Norway,Finland all together had barely a thousand deaths. Sweden with a population of 10 million has surpassed the 5,000 death mark. So if you don’t mind many deaths, and your economy tanking, Sweden is the way to go. And on top of that they still tried social distancing and a few other measures. There was a reason neighboring countries closed their borders to them. Here’s a article from June, the same guy who was touting how they did earlier saying they made mistakes.
 

mickeymiss

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Let’s not take the victory lap on cases yet either...3 days under 10K cases could be the start of a good trend but 4 and 5 days ago it was still over 12K. I hope it continues to drop, but like you said...we will see.

Nothing wrong with hope. It is sorely needed. I genuinely hope we are seeing a better trend in Florida.
 

DCBaker

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Numbers are out -

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Jwink

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$475/wk is more than most Disney cast members make.
Actually, it’s not. It’s about half what most techs I know make. Maybe your college kids or folks just starting out but $14 is the starting wage now. In 1 year it will be $15. So $560 is the LEAST they make... but they get increases until they top out.
 

Jwink

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That's true. And some believe it or not work in other places and only make $9-10 per hour and not even getting 40 hours a week of work and still survive. The $475 per week is to some a raise in pay.
Disney starts at $14 - that’s $560 a week
 

DisneyDebRob

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I know we need to take the weekly average. We also know the numbers that come in from Wednesday to Saturday are what we really look at but that chart.. testing down.. numbers up on both cases and positivity.. and the deaths.
 

GoofGoof

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I know we need to take the weekly average. We also know the numbers that come in from Wednesday to Saturday are what we really look at but that chart.. testing down.. numbers up on both cases and positivity.. and the deaths.
Based on the theory of a 3 month outbreak arc we are still at least a few weeks away from the peak. Cases started ramping up mid-June so things Should start trending down beginning to middle of August and flatten out by mid-Sept. This assumes it follows the same pattern as Wuhan or NYC or any of the other major outbreaks.
 

DisneyDebRob

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Based on the theory of a 3 month outbreak arc we are still at least a few weeks away from the peak. Cases started ramping up mid-June so things Should start trending down beginning to middle of August and flatten out by mid-Sept. This assumes it follows the same pattern as Wuhan or NYC or any of the other major outbreaks.
From your mouth to the virus itself.. preach. Hope your right. I thought it would be ok though with just young people getting it, no worries.🙄
 

GoofGoof

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I would imagine most of these are from the surge, since they are weeks into it now.
Yeah, probably. It’s just a bit of sarcasm since we heard repeatedly from the Covid denier crowd back in the end of June that the spike in cases was irrelevant because it’s just young, asymptomatic people. Death rate was all that mattered. Now the death rate is irrelevant because of the lag in reporting. I get dizzy from all the spinning :cool:
 

Andrew C

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Yeah, probably. It’s just a bit of sarcasm since we heard repeatedly from the Covid denier crowd back in the end of June that the spike in cases was irrelevant because it’s just young, asymptomatic people. Death rate was all that mattered. Now the death rate is irrelevant because of the lag in reporting. I get dizzy from all the spinning :cool:
Eh. Everyone either wants to look at, or avoid, the worst looking stat.
I am getting slightly concerned that Florida isn’t coming down a bit more now. Slightly, but not nearly enough. And it seems they are now falling behind Texas in regards to the case trend. Wonder what they are now thinking internally.
 

GoofGoof

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From your mouth to the virus itself.. preach. Hope your right. I thought it would be ok though with just young people getting it, no worries.🙄
The one big difference is in Wuhan and Italy and NYC people went into full stay at home orders in the first month of the major outbreak arc. This time we aren’t doing that. Should be a decent test to see if the virus slows down on its own anyway. In theory it will, but at what cost?
 

schuelma

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The one big difference is in Wuhan and Italy and NYC people went into full stay at home orders in the first month of the major outbreak arc. This time we aren’t doing that. Should be a decent test to see if the virus slows down on its own anyway. In theory it will, but at what cost?

Right. We're seeing a full blown outbreak and the complete absence of strong policies to slow the spread. Its a nightmare.
 
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