Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

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celluloid

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Touchdown said:
People who think everyone is just going to come back are naive. The economic impact of the world shutting down is going to lead to a round of layoffs not seen in sometime. Attendance is going to drop, significantly. If you are not in health care, utilities, or a government worker odds are you’re workplace is going to go through a round of layoffs. If you are lucky enough to be able to go to WDW after this is all said and done, you will likely score significant discounts and experience significantly less crowds but that comes with a catch, hours will be reduced.
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Thank you.
Doom and Gloom is one thing but realistically this is an economic hardship that is going to compare with, and in some ways likely worse than 9/11 since it is global.
 
ImperfectPixie

ImperfectPixie

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Nubs70 said:
While the intention is admirable, this is not a good idea.
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21stamps said:
This is essentially the same thing, kids still around each other when parents are around other people daily. Although, not very good of companies, especially hospitals, to leave their employees with this as their only option.
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I realize that...but choices are limited unless people want to depend on their parents who are older and likely much more vulnerable to severe symptoms.
 
danlb_2000

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Shouldigo12 said:
Something I was wondering about today; how would we tell if these shutdowns are working as intended? We can't really go by new cases discovered each day, because our testing is so slow. I'm sure the shutdowns will have an effect, but I'm curious if the plan is to just shut things down for awhile and hope it worked or if there's something else they're looking at to determine when things should reopen.
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It is going to be interesting because as the shutdowns ramp up, testing will also ramp up which will increase the number of reported cases, so it will be hard to tell in the short term what impact they are having.
 
21stamps

21stamps

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ImperfectPixie said:
I realize that...but choices are limited unless people want to depend on their parents who are older and likely much more vulnerable to severe symptoms.
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I agree with you. People who are asking all to stay home, no options for childcare, are being entirely unrealistic. They aren’t thinking.

Imagine, rolling up to the ER and barely anyone is there to assist you.
Because, we’re telling all parents to stay home with their children. 🙄
 
Clyde Birdbrain

Clyde Birdbrain

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I get nervous seeing the wait times in the app today. So many people still close together in the queues. Dr Fauci just said on Face the Nation that he himself would no longer go to a restaurant to avoid crowds, yet the wait at Smugglers Run is 110 minutes right now. I think that when we look back at this we will say that the parks should have closed earlier. State and federal government should have started to shut things down earlier and done more testing. We are blind without the data. What is happening in Italy is most likely going to happen here and this is going to take several months. I hope I’m wrong. Stay safe everyone.
 
21stamps

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Nubs70 said:
No idea, but communal rotational child care is an excellent way to spread this stuff.

Maybe dedicated child care groups, no migration of participants between different child care groups. If one group goes viral, they do not cross contaminate other groups.
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The bold is pretty much what everyone is left with.. and no one wants to address. The reality is, not everyone can stay home.. and many of the people who can’t stay home do have children who are now without school and aftercare while the parents are working.

It’s a reality that has to be faced. This is why hopefully more YMCAs etc will offer some kind of solution.. even though it’s not providing the break that the schools intended, there’s no other way.
 
ImperfectPixie

ImperfectPixie

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Nubs70 said:
No idea, but communal rotational child care is an excellent way to spread this stuff.

Maybe dedicated child care groups, no migration of participants between different child care groups. If one group goes viral, they do not cross contaminate other groups.
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We've got some smart cookies in town...I'm hoping a few of them are involved to help with organization/keeping groups separate, etc.

My big worry is that I've been looking for a job for some time...we've been a single-income household since my oldest was a toddler due to his health suffering while he was in daycare and then both our boys being diagnosed with autism (one very high functioning, the other more towards moderate with a severe speech delay). They are JUST NOW old enough and developmentally mature enough to where I could allow my oldest to sit for his younger brother for a couple/few hours a day and we've been practicing for short stints (getting his younger brother off the van that brings him home from school has been tricky). We stretched our backup funds for as long as humanly possible to get to this point, and the possibility of my husband being laid off or not being able to work...we'd be totally screwed. I'm still looking, but holy hell this whole thing is scary.
 
hopemax

hopemax

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Overlordkitty said:
The shutdowns are working as intended if the hospital system doesn't become overwhelmed.
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Some things I learned after a friend shared a flip, political comment on FB about Italy.

Florida has 6000-7000 ICU beds.
There are 4.4 million people age 65 or older in Florida.

Really don’t like that math. 1% is 44,000. And there are still younger patients needing care, and non-coronavirus patients needing care. Not sure we even know the average time a COVID-19 patient that requires critical care, stays in critical care. I just had a family member on ventilation for 5 days, in ICU for a week, in hospital for 9 days. I don’t think they will be able to clear the beds fast enough.
 
Nubs70

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21stamps said:
The bold is pretty much what everyone is left with.. and no one wants to address. The reality is, not everyone can stay home.. and many of the people who can’t stay home do have children who are now without school and aftercare while the parents are working.

It’s a reality that has to be faced. This is why hopefully more YMCAs etc will offer some kind of solution.. even though it’s not providing the break that the schools intended, there’s no other way.
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YMCA is not the way to do it. Too large an audience, too difficult to control. We need multiple small groups.

An analogy is an ammo dump.

You could store munitions in one big pile but if one round goes off, the whole thing burns down. Store munitions in 10 smaller piles, if one burns down, 90% survive.
 
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