Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

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Vegas Disney Fan

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disneygeek90 said:
Well... what has felt inevitable at times here in Florida has now happened. My brother (vaccinated) was supposed to visit this weekend for HHN. He woke up feeling a little "weird" and has taken two positive at home tests. Waiting on results for PCR.

Incredibly disappointing since we had plans, but obviously I hope he has a mild case and gets through it quickly. Honestly, in some ways here in Florida it seems like I'm just waiting until my number is called, too.
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I know how you feel, I work in a casino in Las Vegas.

Honestly after 6 months of being around hundreds (to thousands) of people every day I feel pretty confidant at this point I’m as immune as im going to be (knock on wood). My girlfriend asked if I was going to get the booster and at this point I don’t plan too unless some new research comes up that shows the pfizer diminishes further over time. I know for a fact I’ve worked 8 hours with people who tested positive the next day, not sure how I could be more exposed than that unless I start licking things and making out with random people, fingers crossed the vaccine and my immune system continue to keep me safe.
 
Vegas Disney Fan

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GoofGoof said:
The only thing that we need “hope” for as far as ending the pandemic is figuring out how to get the rest of the people vaccinated. I hope we figure that out.
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I personally dont think this one’s ever going away, that said I’d be perfectly happy to get back to no restrictions and only a few thousand deaths a year, we live with several viruses we haven’t been able to completely eliminate but by managing them our lives go on without giving them any thought.

The all or nothing standpoints are weird to me, even if we can’t eliminate it that’s no excuse not to reduce it as much as possible.
 
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Vegas Disney Fan said:
I know how you feel, I work in a casino in Las Vegas.

Honestly after 6 months of being around hundreds (to thousands) of people every day I feel pretty confidant at this point I’m as immune as im going to be (knock on wood). My girlfriend asked if I was going to get the booster and at this point I don’t plan too unless some new research comes up that shows the pfizer diminishes further over time. I know for a fact I’ve worked 8 hours with people who tested positive the next day, not sure how I could be more exposed than that unless I start licking things and making out with random people, fingers crossed the vaccine and my immune system continue to keep me safe.
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I have to think Vegas casino workers have some of the strongest immune systems possible. Not sure what the hand washing protocols were in the pre-covid era, but whether it be handing playing cards, poker chips, or someone tossing down their horn bets at the last second, your hands are exposed to who knows what from who knows where all day long and I'm not sure how much hand washing you can do to get all that off.
 
StarWarsGirl

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Jrb1979 said:
We don't have a national passport system either. Our provinces are like your states in that each one makes their own rules. Our federal government is making mandatory proof of vaccination a requirement for travel within the country.
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Again, our government can't do that here. They might be able to instate a restriction on public transit, but as far as restricting free travel between states? Nope, starts to get into a constitutional issue. The lawyer with whom I live even questions the constitutionality of Hawaii's travel restrictions, but that would have to be challenged in court, and no one wants to do that right now.
 
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Heppenheimer

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Vegas Disney Fan said:
I know how you feel, I work in a casino in Las Vegas.

Honestly after 6 months of being around hundreds (to thousands) of people every day I feel pretty confidant at this point I’m as immune as im going to be (knock on wood). My girlfriend asked if I was going to get the booster and at this point I don’t plan too unless some new research comes up that shows the pfizer diminishes further over time. I know for a fact I’ve worked 8 hours with people who tested positive the next day, not sure how I could be more exposed than that unless I start licking things and making out with random people, fingers crossed the vaccine and my immune system continue to keep me safe.
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If you're vaccinated, it sounds like you may have received the equivalent of several micro-boosters.
 
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mmascari

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Heppenheimer said:
Still, easier to get a group of 13 to agree on something than a group of 50+.
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Could we get 13 or maybe 20 to all do it?

That might be enough, at least locally in those 13 or 20 areas.

Not going to help with my WDW trip next year. But, at least locally in those areas it would drive down transmission.

Edit: To be clear, not travel restrictions in or out of those states. That's clearly a no go. Just for activities within them. Should be no problem implementing them as heath code type things. In the ones that want to, which isn't 0 even if it's not 50.
 
GoofGoof

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mmascari said:
Could we get 13 or maybe 20 to all do it?

That might be enough, at least locally in those 13 or 20 areas.

Not going to help with my WDW trip next year. But, at least locally in those areas it would drive down transmission.

Edit: To be clear, not travel restrictions in or out of those states. That's clearly a no go. Just for activities within them. Should be no problem implementing them as heath code type things. In the ones that want to, which isn't 0 even if it's not 50.
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Your best hope of seeing that would be a block of states in the NE or maybe several on the West coast and those are the places with the highest vaccination rates already. I would still welcome it. If NYC can do it then many of their neighbors can. I really like the arena and stadium requirements too.
 
sullyinMT

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mmascari said:
Could we get 13 or maybe 20 to all do it?

That might be enough, at least locally in those 13 or 20 areas.

Not going to help with my WDW trip next year. But, at least locally in those areas it would drive down transmission.

Edit: To be clear, not travel restrictions in or out of those states. That's clearly a no go. Just for activities within them. Should be no problem implementing them as heath code type things. In the ones that want to, which isn't 0 even if it's not 50.
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Like a continuum of the regional consortiums of last year? That would be great.

My oldest has his DC/NYC combo trip this coming May, and is thrilled at the thought that NYC has vaccine requirements for theaters and whatnot.

As for travel, I might be off base but I think I see some writing on the wall that we will see a domestic vaccine requirement for air travel once 5-11 gets approval/authorization. The opening of international travel and tightening of testing requirements for unvaccinated Americans seems to say to me that the administration wants to go further while moving toward “normal” for the vaccinated. A testing option (and I hope they make the timeframe next to impractical) will probably stick around just to attempt to avoid interstate commerce court fights, but I won’t be shocked in the least to see vaccines be required to board a plane or interstate train 7-8 weeks after EUA date for 5-11.
 
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mmascari

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GoofGoof said:
Your best hope of seeing that would be a block of states in the NE or maybe several on the West coast and those are the places with the highest vaccination rates already. I would still welcome it. If NYC can do it then many of their neighbors can. I really like the arena and stadium requirements too.
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Gotta start somewhere.

As the CDC county map starts to turn from Red to Orange to Yellow and Blue (hopefully), I suspect we're going to see it grow outward from areas. We'll see one county make the transition first, then it's neighbors will begin to shift too. I think we'll see areas of Blue surrounded by Yellow, then Orange, then Red filling in all the empty space between them. That we'll see them join and expand as blocks. Not some patchwork random shift here and there with Blue counties right next to Red ones. The ones that look like that right now seem to be reporting errors not really Blue.

Get a block in the NE and on the West coast and grow it out from there. Gotta start somewhere. People that live on the boarders will need to adjust based on how they interact. Which will allow whatever measures to grow outward, since they're not big changes then. People already doing whatever when they cross the imaginary boarder.

I mean, sure, if two areas are separated by a river with very few or no river crossings that make cross river interactions difficult, then it wouldn't have that kind of spread. But, is there anyplace in the US like that anymore? I suppose a West coast block could expand until it hits the Rockies and then it'll have a harder time organically moving farther East. But, a NE block could expand South and West slowly until it was everywhere. That'll put TX and FL at the very end of any shift that happens this way as they're farthest from the originating points.
 
GoofGoof

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mmascari said:
Could we get 13 or maybe 20 to all do it?

That might be enough, at least locally in those 13 or 20 areas.

Not going to help with my WDW trip next year. But, at least locally in those areas it would drive down transmission.

Edit: To be clear, not travel restrictions in or out of those states. That's clearly a no go. Just for activities within them. Should be no problem implementing them as heath code type things. In the ones that want to, which isn't 0 even if it's not 50.
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If we got a block of states from Virginia to Maine we would hit 13 if you count DC. Maybe 3 or 4 on the West coast. I can’t see us hitting 20 easily.
 
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