Sure, why not. I’m not sure Fireworks with 70,000 of your closest friends at MK qualifies as a small gathering for July 4th but it’s really up to Disney if they want the crowds and the cost. I wouldn’t be shocked if they did it.
After the pandemic is over in USA, then there will be no more surges anymore for good?
Yes. Once it is done it will be over for good. As I said in the other thread I think it's time to step back and focus on positives for a while. I say this to my kid and mean it - it will get better.
This is ancedotal, so take it for what it's worth. Our hospital has been giving monoclonal antibody infusions to non-hospitalized COVID-19+ patients at higher baseline risk for several months. Amongst the 200 or so who received the infusion, only one went on to require hospitalization, and was quickly discharged thereafter. As the article implies, though, you need a dedicated system and staff in place to infuse the medication in a timely manner. It needs to be the right patient at the right time.Here’s a really good article for the lay people here like myself about the treatments and drugs that have helped during the pandemic.. some that are a big help.. some that need more data. But it’s a complete list and very interesting.
What science has learned works and what doesn’t in COVID-19 treatments
A year into treating those with COVID-19, research is revealing medical interventions, such as remdesivir, that help patients, and some that don’t.www.usatoday.com
That is good to hear. I have had a handful of friends receive it and none were hospitalized either. Totally anecdotal. One even felt 100% the next day. Again anecdotal.
The Bill Maher piece makes sense. You however do not.
Bill Maher Questions Naming of Coronavirus: “Why Should China Get a Pass?”
In a new episode of HBO's 'Real Time With Bill Maher' on Friday, the late-night host explored the history of diseases being named after countries in which they originated.www.hollywoodreporter.com
I can't find where he said anything but the link to the video.
I’d like to think so too. Although with Rat being pushed back to October, I have to wonder if there is any motivation to add anything for this summer.
Sometimes I really like what he says.
It’s a good point. However, I think moving Rat back to October is just a cheap way to add something brand new for the 50th. Rather than actually adding something brand new you just delay the opening of something that should have been there for a while now. I don’t think bringing back something that has always existed at WDW has the same effect. They could wait until Oct to debut the new EPCOT show but that doesn’t stop them from having fireworks all Summer if they wanted to. Fireworks would be a good way to eat crowds, keep people at the parks until close spending money on souvenirs, snacks and even dinner if they do it at EPCOT. Someone mentioned in another thread there are a lot of fireworks left over for the current EPCOT show so they may want to use them up this Summer before debuting the new show.
I think it’s a little early to panic about NJ. The cases aren’t dropping anymore, that is true, but the daily case numbers are still well below the Jan peak and below the level they were at a month ago. This could be the start of another wave of cases or it could just be a blip. In mid-Feb a similar situation occurred where cases spiked upward but that corrected and continued down for several weeks after until this spike. It’s best to look at the longer term picture than daily cases and assume that it won’t be a linear decline everywhere all the time. If a few weeks or a month from now cases are continuing to rise then that’s a problem. Give it some time.
The other current problem is that due to the 35% capacity, most of the parks still have a default closing time of around dinner. Now, yes, those times have sometimes been extended at the last minute, particularly on the weekends. But I can't see Disney adding back night time entertainment until they are ready to keep the parks open consistently past dark, which may not be until they have the park capacity high enough to justify more workers/work hours.
EPCOT is open until 11 through the first week of April now due to Spring Break crowds. That’s likely to drop back down through May but as schools start to get out and vaccines are ramped up the same type crowds will be back in June. The 35% capacity limit should be gone sooner than later. They are slowly pulling back distancing on rides which adds ride capacity and that allows park capacity to increase.
