I think because the vaccine light is much closer for kids this time, there’s merit to waiting. If early November holds, visitors to WDW could have their 5+ family vaccinated by New Year’s Day. It’s a nice date on the calendar if case trends also continue their decline. So, I’d guess sometime between 1/1 and 2/14.
Never can tell but in my observation lawyers advising multi billion operations are not prone to taking risk in any amount. They err on the side of "I'm so safe I can walk on water". If the client takes their advice is another matter but they CYA'ed and the client took their counsel.
I’m sure they’re advising Disney as to what constitutes reasonable care under the current circumstances. But there’s no way the standard is “not taking risk in any amount.” They aren’t insurers of their guests’ health. They removed mask mandates in May even though a large percentage of their guests - children - were not able to be vaccinated.
No, but if they have a government agency to point to I think they feel the risk to the company is minimal if the company does as much as they can do. Will absolve the company of responsibility and that is their goal.
Before the end of the month, look for it when the 14 day average positivity rate drops below 5% for Orange County.
Complying with CDC guidelines would be a solid argument that they are exercising the required reasonable care toward their guests.
This is what I've been waiting for. We are saving up for a big trip to Disney World to celebrate as soon as this happens. We have told Disney this. We did go down to Florida last year because of my parents death. We tried to stay on property for a few days. it was a big mess and told them as soon as their was a system to check for only Vaccinated people to come there, we would stay away.
Found out from the health dept a few days ago that DH and I do qualify to get boosters as caregivers to a high risk person, so we have to figure out the timing on which we are getting first - the booster or the flu shot.
If it is one thing among many that WDW is successful in is the subject of metrics in regards to how to plan and achieve better business outcome ( ie increasing revenue, etc ). ie - guest parking and fast pass was free back in the day. Hotel and Parks parking were free and FP back in the day one had to work for it ( ie at park opening , speed walk or run in 90 degree heat to the several FP locations to snag those coveted passes before they were all gone )
This is all just speculation for all of us since nobody knows what metrics Disney is using.
I also think there’s some desire to have consistent rules between WDW and DLR. That plays in a little and since WDW isn’t a locals park they need to look beyond the percent positive in Orange County. I do wonder if maybe they consider tying anything into the date when all CMs are vaccinated. I think that’s 10/22 but maybe later depending on when the last of the unions signed on.
I feel pretty good that we will be in a much better place by Spring/Summer. Nobody knows what will happen for sure with variants and vaccinations, but assuming there isn’t some vaccine resistant variant and assuming vaccinations don’t completely stall out we should be at a point where cases are low enough to remove most or all mitigations. If I were a betting man I’d put money on no masks at WDW by next Spring.
DH and I got flu shots a week ago. He was going to wait a week between getting his flu shot and the Pfizer booster, but the pharmacist told him that he could either get both shots at the same time or he would have to wait at least two weeks to get the COVID booster. Because of our upcoming trip, he decided to get both shots at the same time, one in each arm. He did not have any side effects. I got Moderna, so no booster at this time.
You can get both the flu shot and the COVID booster at the same time. As I said in another post, I was told that if you don't get them at the same time, you have to wait two weeks between shots.
