I'm not sure what the point of that would be. Ratings? Nah the pr hit would far outweigh any one day bump from the story. There is no percentage in amplifying any spread from the parks, it won't change anything and it can hurt you and the area's rep and proving it would be trouble. A no upside situation to highlight the parks.
You realize you sound ridiculous right?
Yeah… They can. It doesn’t matter if some people think it’s unconstitutional… If it’s a public health threat they are allowed to do whatever they want. There’s several cities around me who have mandatory mask mandates. People tried to sue them and judges sided with the cities because it’s a public health threat.
I don’t disagree that that might be what happens… The point is is that we can’t learn to live with it yet because we haven’t learned enough about it. If we just go on acting like this doesn’t exist do you understand how many people will die? Just so that some of us can live normally? It’s not worth it. It’s not worth losing our loved ones and it’s not worth playing Russian roulette to find out if you are one of those percentages people that will have lasting organ damage, a stroke, loss of limb. Don’t forget that Broadway Star Nick who lost his life after three month long battle with coronavirus and he had already lost one of his legs due to a micro stroke. It does not just kill or damage the elderly population. It is leaving lasting life altering damage in its path.
I’ll say this- we are a cast member family. When they reopened (my husband was called back before they even reopened) we did not feel safe. He wears a mask and a shield. Cases were over 10K a day and we were extremely worried. He works behind the scenes so not exposed to as many folks but still enters the park from time to time.
What? No, I didn’t say “many folks contracted COVID from the parks/Disney Springs. I said:
You can see the difference, can’t you? I asked how many people have contracted COVID at the parks/Disney Springs, and you deliberately misrepresented my question as a statement. That‘s not nice.
You say your are not making allegations, but yet you doubt what disney is saying. Is that not an allegation that you doubt disney is being accurate?
What has Disney said about the number of people (guests or CMs) who have been exposed or infected to coronavirus at the parks or Disney Springs?
One yes. Two or three, deniable plausibility. However, if a number of (picking at random) HM CMs from the same shift on a Monday afternoon we’re all positive one Monday later, that’s where it could be reasonably surmised that their workplace was compromised. Or a bunch of servers and kitchen staff at Garden Grill. I guess they could be going to parties and bars after work, but tracing back to one day’s shift work and staff would be fishy, to say the least.
I’m saying the right to choose is mine alone...don’t tell me what I can and can’t do. I’m offering a compromise by saying if there must be restrictions, limit it to those at risk.
This first hand account is good to hear. It’s also nice to hear they’ve adapted when CMs have proposed concern or opportunities for improvement.
I can appreciate what you are saying, but it has nothing to do with my point. If anything, it enforces it.
No, I’m acknowledging the truth.
Again, I can appreciate what you are saying, but, at this point, even with the high case numbers (which are data dumps before the election), the mortality rate is 1% or less.
Disney has never commented one way or the other and I wouldn’t expect them to. There have obviously been people infected at WDW (it’s just about statistically impossible it didn’t happen) and there are known cases of CMs testing positive but Disney has no reason to go out and publicly talk about that. What I think most people are referring to are large outbreaks. If a large number of CMs working directly together and/or guests known to be together (hotel, meals, other activities) were infected and the link could be made I think it would have made the news or definitely made it to social media. We did here some rumblings of outbreaks among staff at both Disney and Universal but there’s no guarantee those cases came from co-workers. There is no way to tell if those people got infected at work or on their personal time.
How can Disney prove that the guests or CMs contracted anything at the parks?
Nope. Not not how it works. Just like second hand smoke you don’t have the right to indirectly harm someone else’s health even if that restricts your right to do whatever you want. You may want to smoke a cigarette whenever you want but you can’t do it most places indoors anymore. They didn’t agree to a compromise where you can smoke and anyone who doesn’t want to inhale your second hand smoke can just stay home.
With Disney the only way they could definitely say someone got it there would be if they stayed a pretty long time. So if I check in and stay 14 days and get sick on my 15th day I can say I know I got sick there. This assumes you stay on property and don’t leave to eat, go to Universal or Sea World or anything like that. Since our friends from across the pond aren’t allowed back yet very few people are taking 2 week plus trips to WDW. It’s not going to be a large sample size to look at.
