orlandogal22
Well-Known Member
While it isn't realistic right now based on the scarcity and time required to test someone in the US, When newer test pop up it that are quicker and much more accessible it could become viable. It could also allow Disney to do what they have always wanted to do and only allow entry to the parks by people that stay at their resorts. Just imagine you check in to your Disney hotel, everyone is swabbed at the front desk and after a couple of hours if your family's test results are clean your magic band get activated and you can get into the parks. Sure it would never generate the same crowd levels they have now, but amusement parks are going to have to do something dramatic if this virus turns into a part of life with no cure or vaccine. Otherwise who in their right mind would want to go to WDW if you knew the parks were the equivalent of being stuck on cruise ship with infected guests... and what employees would be willing to work in a place like that where you would know that every day you were going to be subjected to some number of infected guests.
When I worked in Guest Services 20 years ago at both the Yacht and the Beach, I was subjected to almost daily interactions with sick guests.
Including once with Danny Glover when I had to coordinate retrieval of his RX meds to be delivered to the hotel when he was sick. As a side note, he was rather grumpy (and I don't think it had anything to do w/ being sick, if I'm being honest).
Some professions just carry that risk.