Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

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GoofGoof

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I see people pulling down their masks to smoke and then putting them back on. I'm sure that's enough to stop the germs.
Yet another reason to quit smoking ;)

Smoke, eat, drink, ride rides....there’s going to be a lot of off and on. I think the goal would be to not spread constant germs if you are sick and don’t know it so at least covering your mouth most of the time is better than not at all. I guess. Is the goal to actually be safe or just make people feel safe enough to come back and drop some cash. Anyone know how this works in Shanghai where masks were popular due to pollution well before this pandemic?
 

Polynesia

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Like a hat maybe you take the mask off once in the ride vehicle. I’m grasping at straws here...it’s really impractical ;)
Plus, just like a hat you wouldn’t just throw them on the ground and expect others to pick up after you. Some personal responsibility might be necessary. Guess it’s best to wait and see if masks will be required. I imagine many guests will wear them even if not required.
 

Polynesia

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Yet another reason to quit smoking ;)

Smoke, eat, drink, ride rides....there’s going to be a lot of off and on. I think the goal would be to not spread constant germs if you are sick and don’t know it so at least covering your mouth most of the time is better than not at all. I guess. Is the goal to actually be safe or just make people feel safe enough to come back and drop some cash. Anyone know how this works in Shanghai where masks were popular due to pollution well before this pandemic?
When I went to Tokyo Disney there were people wearing masks in the airport, park and on the street. I really didn’t pay attention to them. But I do know many Japanese park guests wore them. I imagine we’ll figure it out if necessary. This was a few years ago.
 

Animaniac93-98

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Plus, just like a hat you wouldn’t just throw them on the ground and expect others to pick up after you. Some personal responsibility might be necessary. Guess it’s best to wait and see if masks will be required. I imagine many guests will wear them even if not required.

For sure people will, and I have nothing against people wanting to wear them, so long as they use and dispose of them responsibly as you say.

I just don't think making them mandatory is practical.
 

Lilofan

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Plus, just like a hat you wouldn’t just throw them on the ground and expect others to pick up after you. Some personal responsibility might be necessary. Guess it’s best to wait and see if masks will be required. I imagine many guests will wear them even if not required.
One thing is for sure. You will see some serious tan and not so attractive tan lines with wearing the face mask that covers half your face. Some faces will look like a half baked lobster during the hot Florida summer.
 

Flugell

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Just wondering about the water fountains from a mask/corona-19 point of view. Buying water bottles for a family of 4 or more there for over a week would significantly cut into spending money. I know you can/could get a glass of water from quick service restaurants but that demand would potentially overwhelm them. Are Disney legally required to provide water?
 

ImperfectPixie

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Lilofan

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Just wondering about the water fountains from a mask/corona-19 point of view. Buying water bottles for a family of 4 or more there for over a week would significantly cut into spending money. I know you can/could get a glass of water from quick service restaurants but that demand would potentially overwhelm them. Are Disney legally required to provide water?
In my experience we line up at the many water fountains with our empty water bottles with the other guests and wait to filler up.
 

peter11435

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Just wondering about the water fountains from a mask/corona-19 point of view. Buying water bottles for a family of 4 or more there for over a week would significantly cut into spending money. I know you can/could get a glass of water from quick service restaurants but that demand would potentially overwhelm them. Are Disney legally required to provide water?
Disney will not discontinue complimentary water.
 

Slpy3270

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If this is true then I suggest all the Hollywood studios cancel their entire 2020 slate and consider bankruptcy. The movie theater business is all but certain not to survive this. Any optimism or positive thinking about this is equivalent to climate denial.
 

Flugell

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In my experience we line up at the many water fountains with our empty water bottles with the other guests and wait to filler up.
Well they are designed to be drunk from too, which is how we tend to use them and that means carrying a water bottle, touching handles and placing the part that has touched your mouth close to or around the spout. My guess is they would have to be closed or adapted, maybe like a coffee dispenser where the jet is aimed into a bottle and no more fountains 😢unless anyone has any other suggestions.......
 

TheDisneyDaysOfOurLives

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If this is true then I suggest all the Hollywood studios cancel their entire 2020 slate and consider bankruptcy. The movie theater business is all but certain not to survive this. Any optimism or positive thinking about this is equivalent to climate denial.


1) That sounds like Italian movie theaters, not all movie theaters.

2) Movie studios don’t need theaters for them to be profitable. They’ve wanted to do direct to consumer for years and this will be their chance to bypass the middlemen and go direct to the source if that was to happen. It’s just A matter of time before a studio throws their big blockbuster movie to a paid platform where you spend $20-30 to view a movie one time.
 

TrainsOfDisney

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Are Disney legally required to provide water?

I think so. I don’t think they are allowed to refill personal containers though.

Well they are designed to be drunk from too, which is how we tend to use them and that means carrying a water bottle, touching handles and placing the part that has touched your mouth close to or around the spout. My guess is they would have to be closed or adapted, maybe like a coffee dispenser where the jet is aimed into a bottle and no more fountains 😢unless anyone has any other suggestions.......

I’d love to see more water bottle refill stations around the parks anyways. Actually I’d like to see more in the world!
 

Josh Hendy

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Thanks for the post. With 1.5 million people infected, it seems that it shouldn't be that hard to find a statistical "control group". It also seems that if this is so promising, there would be more than 1 doctor in France working/publishing on it. I hope he's right.
There may be no control group because this drug appears to be so promising, and other treatments are considered to be so unpromising, it would be unethical to ask anyone to volunteer to be a control. I speculate.

Also, there are many thousands of patients and at practically any large hospital the progression and outcome of the disease in the absence of these drugs is very well known even if not strictly controlled and statistically analyzed.

Finally, these drugs have the advantage of being fully tested and approved (although being used off-label). Whereas any newly invented drugs could not be used in a study as an alternative or control because they would stuck in lab and animal trials for a long time before they could be approved for human trials.

There isn't just one doctor in France studying them. Lots of other teams are doing studies of these drugs. It's just that for whatever reason (slowness or caution) their results are not being officially released or publicized. For example about a week ago it was reported that a team in NYC was doing a study on 1500 patients for the preceding week, and that preliminary results would be known in about 3 days. Then nothing more was announced (that I know).

Meanwhile, it seems that many, many doctors and hospitals are using the drugs informally. I would guess they are doing so because the preliminary data and anecdotal evidence look promising, and not because of what any politician told them 😉
 

Slpy3270

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1) That sounds like Italian movie theaters, not all movie theaters.

2) Movie studios don’t need theaters for them to be profitable. They’ve wanted to do direct to consumer for years and this will be their chance to bypass the middlemen and go direct to the source if that was to happen. It’s just A matter of time before a studio throws their big blockbuster movie to a paid platform where you spend $20-30 to view a movie one time.

Most movie theater chains are globalized now, and any country that sets a trend for them is certain to follow for other countries.

Plus, many Hollywood creatives and artists are adamant to show their movies on the big screen since they want the movies to look good. If we're condemned to a world where the only screens left are the ones in our living room, then creatives and artists will see no reason to make good product since they'll make far less money from it.

I think this could be the beginning of the end for movie theaters. A lot of people are too cheap/lazy to go out and pay to watch a movie, and the people that weren't are now adapting to at-home viewing as well. Not saying they will all close but I could see them becoming "old fashioned".

In all fairness they're saying the same thing about physical home media and yet it's still around.
 

zengoth

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I think this could be the beginning of the end for movie theaters. A lot of people are too cheap/lazy to go out and pay to watch a movie, and the people that weren't are now adapting to at-home viewing as well. Not saying they will all close but I could see them becoming "old fashioned".
Not old fashioned- just very expensive. Think concert ticket prices. To fill a movie theater at quarter capacity, higher pricing will be a must. folks will save for months to be able to see Frozen3 on the big screen.
 
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