I think one of the problems with this situation is that people are looking for an easy answer, and that just does not exist. Dealing with the pandemic is crazy difficult. Remove to many restrictions and lots of people get sick and die. Put in place to many restrictions you risk economic devastation with all the problems that come with that. It takes an extraordinary level of leadership to walk the line between those two things.
So far, except for some weekends, the parks haven't been hitting their very reduced capacity. Disney keeps expanding the AP bucket and the CM bucket because there are precious few guests staying at the resorts. And then even with that, they aren't hitting max (very reduced) capacity.
International visitors can't come here because their countries won't allow them to go a known hotspot: The USA.
States with a huge tourism population that goes to Florida, namely, the Northeastern states, tell their people don't go to hotspots in the US, and if you do, you have to quarantine for two weeks when you come back. And one of those named hotspots? Florida.
And given Florida's bad reputation for managing COVID, especially with the news the governor is making, wanting a bill of rights for student to get COVID if they want, even if the states didn't discourage travel to Florida, most people won't go. The NE knows what COVID is like when it gets bad. Hardly anyone wants to be part of that in another state.
In the NE things are opening up... and people aren't showing up... they don't want to take the risk. They ain't going to Florida where the positivity rate is five times higher.
Unless Floridians residents step up a lot more than they're already doing... there are no other guests to attend WDW.
I concur 100% on this. Reading an article regarding cities cutting back on police funding also saw this:
“The coronavirus has left them in dire financial shape; early on in the pandemic, the
mayor of Phoenix, Arizona, which will fall $26 million short this year, told Vox that the Covid-19 recession “feels like falling off a cliff.”
And other cities are faring far worse. New Orleans has forecast between
$130 million and $170 million in losses. Boston is planning on
$65 million in revenue losses for the next year. States are in just as much danger; Florida can expect a
shortfall of $16 billion to $23 billion in the next three fiscal years; California has a
$54 billion deficit”
It’s an interesting take on how desperate they need tourism to work to increase their shortfalls like Danlb_2000 you have walk an extremely fine line between both sides but I can see it coming full circle on both sides of the argument.
Us too....we have no financially or logistical reason NOT to go.
- no state quarantines here
- driving distance
- virtual school
-AP
- more Marriott points than we know what to do with
I was considering driving down and having kids do virtual school until lunch and the. Play in the parks in the afternoon. Was actually looking at booking it yesterday. Then Desantis came out. Totally changed our minds. I realize wdw will keep their restrictions but the gas stations and hotels and restaurants around there? Forget it. It was already bad in July. Also I imagine this is going to make front of line CMs very stressed and have a lot more difficulty with mask enforcement. And I don’t want to be around a bunch of adults acting like toddlers trying to get away with breaking the rules on the side. I can do that at Walmart
I wouldn’t risk it either, this opened up a can of worms in Orlando, they are saying nothing’s changed but businesses are not like hold up the governor said so:
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings said they were caught off guard by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision on Friday to lift coronavirus restrictions on bars, restaurants a…
www.orlandosentinel.com
The problem is nobody can. There is strong anecdotal evidence that people suffer long term effects even after "recovering". Until there is more science around this it is better to be cautious.
Covid shaming is a real thing, if you get it, survive, people will treat you like garbage and sub humane. I saw an article about how survivors are just getting singled out all together, then my step daughter’s family got the virus and they were in quarantine and survived and you can tell everyone around them does not want to do anything with them, heck, I don’t even interact with my step daughter that much anymore like giving her hugs and her mom will still blame step mom(she was the one who infected the family) About it, it’s ugly. So if you survive it’s a horrible stigma, no to mention the fact that everyone around the people who got sick will be paranoid into thinking it’s covid but luckily everyone here tested negative for the time being. But the step mom is just a mean person, i mean granted she infected her sisters and mom and was like “oh sorry” i forgot I had the virus, like nothing happened.
Now you have to worry about the psychological effects of surviving all together and it’s sad people will find someway to bully them, it’s full circle now and it sucks.
