Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

[The Mom]

Why couldn't a restaurant impose a "delivery fee" or "tip fee" as part of the order?

I place many orders online these days, and most include a tip option. But I do not have them delivered, so I do not know if a delivery driver shares in any tips, or if one could be added to the delivery charge - as long as the driver and not the delivery company got to keep it.

I always tipped other delivery drivers (mostly pizza and Chinese food) in addition to any delivery charge the company added. Maybe that's why my food always came sooner than their estimated time.

 

[Lora Baines Bradley]

It seems reasonable enough to do that, but that practice is met with heavy skepticism where I live because the restaurant usually keeps it instead of passing it on to delivery drivers.

Tipping is a practice that needs to be seriously reworked, honestly. Please tip your delivery drivers. Many people aren’t right now because they’re not interacting with the deliverer and people who need tips to survive are really struggling.

 

[ImperfectPixie]

Tipping is a practice that needs to be seriously reworked, honestly. Please tip your delivery drivers. Many people aren’t right now because they’re not interacting with the deliverer and people who need tips to survive are really struggling.

Agreed. We always tip.

 

[DisneyDebRob]

Yup, was listening to a local newscaster in hysterics yesterday about 169 Covid-19 "related" deaths in LA County. This is in a county with over 10 million people where about 63,000 people died last year.

169.

.27% of last year's deaths.

Total.

Well then that settles it! Everyone back to work.

 

[Lora Baines Bradley]

Agreed. We always tip.

I wish people would realize that when they don’t tip because they disagree with the system (which I agree is messed up and we need to fix it) they’re not hurting the business at all, they’re hurting the worker. It’s really sad honestly.

 

[flynnibus]

I wonder - and it is 100% speculation and personal opinion - if WDW (and DL on the West Coast) will/should only open to state residents once that state starts lifting restrictions for its residents? No FL ID, no admittance.

Is the plan to kill them off?

 

[flynnibus]

Yup, was listening to a local newscaster in hysterics yesterday about 169 Covid-19 "related" deaths in LA County. This is in a county with over 10 million people where about 63,000 people died last year.

169.

.27% of last year's deaths.

Total.

Remember when people say apples and oranges?

First rule of comparison... use the same unit of measure (in this case..time)

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]

Yup, was listening to a local newscaster in hysterics yesterday about 169 Covid-19 "related" deaths in LA County. This is in a county with over 10 million people where about 63,000 people died last year.

169.

.27% of last year's deaths.

Total.

I posted this a couple 1000 pages back (probably 50 or so).

It's going to come as a wave. Say anything you want about how you perceive how bad or not bad things are now. History does repeat itself. 1st wave of Spanish Flu wasn't "so bad" either. Yet, we're all talking about it a hundred years later.

Why the Second Wave of the 1918 Flu Pandemic Was So Deadly | HISTORY

The first strain of the Spanish Flu wasn’t particularly deadly. Then it came back in the fall with a vengeance.

www.history.com

 

[RoyalPrinceLeon]

Hello everyone. Its my day off so I'll catch up on posts. I had a busy week, starting to see more face maskes in use. Less people out at night. I hope everyone is feeling well.

 

[GhostHost1000]

interesting read -

Epidemiologist: Coronavirus could be 'exterminated' if lockdowns lifted * WorldNetDaily * by WND Staff

The unprecedented policy of mass quarantine to "flatten the curve" is only prolonging the coronavirus pandemic, contends epidemiologist Kurt Wittkowski

www.wnd.com

 

[flynnibus]

interesting read -

Epidemiologist: Coronavirus could be 'exterminated' if lockdowns lifted * WorldNetDaily * by WND Staff

The unprecedented policy of mass quarantine to "flatten the curve" is only prolonging the coronavirus pandemic, contends epidemiologist Kurt Wittkowski

www.wnd.com

Sure.. if you like total slant crap.

Anything is a 'slam dunk' when you can just focus on one piece of a puzzle and chose to ignore everything else that complicates your thought.

This is like the guy that says heart transplants aren't fiscally sound. Absolutely correct if you were a guy that only counted dollars. But it's not a representation of the entire problem/discussion.

 

[DisneyDoctor]

interesting read -

Epidemiologist: Coronavirus could be 'exterminated' if lockdowns lifted * WorldNetDaily * by WND Staff

The unprecedented policy of mass quarantine to "flatten the curve" is only prolonging the coronavirus pandemic, contends epidemiologist Kurt Wittkowski

www.wnd.com

Really interesting.

Would we even need to worry about over burdening the hospitals if we simply quarantined those with higher risk and built up herd immunity? No idea, I don't study this stuff, but fascinating nonetheless.

I wouldn't feel comfortable making this a study in the future lol.

 

[Lilofan]

As someone who has spent 10+ years in accounting/finance at a F100, I find it funny that everyone thinks us "bean counters" have any say in how things are run. We just provide scenarios based on sets of assumptions that operations provides. Operations makes all the decisions.

And operations are bean counters also. That's not new. Run your business accordingly and watch your labor costs - bean counters.

 

[Tom P.]

Just about to reply to your private message - got a huge backlog, apologies for the delay.

Thank you, sir. I really do appreciate it. I can imagine how crazy things are for you right now.

 

[peter11435]

interesting read -

Epidemiologist: Coronavirus could be 'exterminated' if lockdowns lifted * WorldNetDaily * by WND Staff

The unprecedented policy of mass quarantine to "flatten the curve" is only prolonging the coronavirus pandemic, contends epidemiologist Kurt Wittkowski

www.wnd.com

I don’t know much about his credentials but the source seems a bit shady

 

[ImperfectPixie]

Really interesting.

Would we even need to worry about over burdening the hospitals if we simply quarantined those with higher risk and built up herd immunity? No idea, I don't study this stuff, but fascinating nonetheless.

I wouldn't feel comfortable making this a study in the future lol.

My biggest concern is that we've already had issues in facilities in which the elderly reside even after super strict guidelines were put in place.

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]

Sure.. if you like total slant crap.

Anything is a 'slam dunk' when you can just focus on one piece of a puzzle and chose to ignore everything else that complicates your thought.

This is like the guy that says heart transplants aren't fiscally sound. Absolutely correct if you were a guy that only counted dollars. But it's not a representation of the entire problem/discussion.

It's World Net Daily. Anytime I see a link with "wnd" in it, I've programmed my mouse to "shock" my finger if I click on it.

 

[DisneyDoctor]

My biggest concern is that we've already had issues in facilities in which the elderly reside even after super strict guidelines were put in place.

Yeah, it'd be really tough to totally separate them from the rest of society. In a vacuum, sure.

 

[wdwmagic]

Really interesting.

Would we even need to worry about over burdening the hospitals if we simply quarantined those with higher risk and built up herd immunity? No idea, I don't study this stuff, but fascinating nonetheless.

I wouldn't feel comfortable making this a study in the future lol.

That was the initial plan for the UK, until they realized there would be an unacceptable loss of life before herd immunity was reached.

 

[GhostHost1000]

I don’t know much about his credentials but the source seems a bit shady

ha I wondered that... but I'll also say I think every source is shady these days so we never know what to believe