Unfortunately, the popcorn buckets will have to adhere to social distancing. 10 located throughout the 4 parks every day for $672 a pop.
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Unfortunately, the popcorn buckets will have to adhere to social distancing. 10 located throughout the 4 parks every day for $672 a pop.
jmp85
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I think so too. They're going to want to recoup all their lost revenues, but at the same time, they'll need to promote social distancing in the parks. I'm thinking the obvious way to do this is to allow a handful of families into each park and sell them $1M popcorn buckets.
Disstevefan1
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Before we know it, this will be over and we can go back to complaining about the overcrowded parks, the poor food quality and price increases on everything just like the good old days 
hopemax
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An article I just read, indicates that investors believe that the new Federal guidelines for reopening, indicate that Disney theme parks can reopen sooner than later. Movie theater chains also got bumps for the same reason.
electric
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I cant wait for that. I've never missed crowds so much in my life.Before we know it, this will be over and we can go back to complaining about the overcrowded parks, the poor food quality and price increases on everything just like the good old days
WDW862
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The stock market acts like a drunk toddler.
Disstevefan1
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$104, too pricey for me......
easyrowrdw
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Good point. Distancing was supposed to provide time for hospitals to better handle the infections that were coming. If fewer people are at risk than originally thought, then it's even better. Hopefully future research bears it out.
Patcheslee
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Boing 717-200. Looked at Delta and they are leaving the middle seat of 3 empty. And the 2 seat available next to each other. It'd definitely break up our family.
Bill in Atlanta
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What about a soft opening with temp scans and limited restaurant capacities? I could see that happening in June. People are ready to open things up and you know these large corporations can't bleed money forever.
Am I too optimistic?
DisneyDebRob
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Do you have a link? I so need to read that.An article I just read, indicates that investors believe that the new Federal guidelines for reopening, indicate that Disney theme parks can reopen sooner than later. Movie theater chains also got bumps for the same reason.
DisneyDebRob
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I think so. Maybe a bit but nothing wrong with that. I want to see pictures of Main Street social distancing, just can’t picture that. Let alone the rest of the park and restaurants and attractions all adhering to this. I don’t think it can be done. Maybe with only a thousand people let in?
LittleBuford
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I too am struggling to understand how any amount of social distancing could be achieved at Disney. If it is doable at all, it would take so much thought and effort as to suck all the fun out of being there.
JoeCamel
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People hanging on the remdesivir results and thinking this all goes away soon. IMO there are much better opportunities without as much risk as $DIS right now but I would not buy anything til we get a lot more info on how big of a hit and for how long this will be.
Jrb1979
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It is why I don't understand why any one is in such a rush to get back there. The Magic people crave won't be the same for awhile.
DisneyCane
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I took the time this morning to make a chart of daily new cases in Italy (where there was a national lockdown on day 19 of the chart and regional before that) vs. Sweden where they have not implemented widespread social distancing measures.
To create the chart, I overlaid the daily new case data beginning with the day each country saw more than 10 new cases. I normalized the data per 100,000 population. This normalized data is shown in blue for Italy and pink for Sweden. Since Sweden's count is so low per capita compared to Italy, I created the yellow line where I multiplied Sweden times 10 so the shape of the curve would be apparent to compare against Italy. Sweden is about 11 days behind Italy in the outbreak timeline so that is why the Sweden data ends earlier.
I am posting this as a factual presentation in a format that isn't easily available so that people can draw their own conclusions. In order to avoid back and forth arguments, I would like to request that nobody reply to this post or discuss the content in this thread. Please treat this as a simple display of data. If posters start arguing about it, I will ask @TheMom to delete the post and any subsequent posts.
To create the chart, I overlaid the daily new case data beginning with the day each country saw more than 10 new cases. I normalized the data per 100,000 population. This normalized data is shown in blue for Italy and pink for Sweden. Since Sweden's count is so low per capita compared to Italy, I created the yellow line where I multiplied Sweden times 10 so the shape of the curve would be apparent to compare against Italy. Sweden is about 11 days behind Italy in the outbreak timeline so that is why the Sweden data ends earlier.
I am posting this as a factual presentation in a format that isn't easily available so that people can draw their own conclusions. In order to avoid back and forth arguments, I would like to request that nobody reply to this post or discuss the content in this thread. Please treat this as a simple display of data. If posters start arguing about it, I will ask @TheMom to delete the post and any subsequent posts.
Polynesia
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As I passed over I4 today I told my son I can’t wait for I4 to be jammed again.
"For the first time in its 50 year history, the show will not go on. Comic-Con International announced that there will be no San Diego Comic-Con in 2020 — and the next planned event will be July 22-25, 2021."
"Additionally, while initially WonderCon — which was originally set for April 10-12, 2020 — was announced as being “postponed”, it is also now officially cancelled for the year. Organizers hope it returns to the Anaheim Convention Center on March 26-28, 2021."
sdccblog.com
"Additionally, while initially WonderCon — which was originally set for April 10-12, 2020 — was announced as being “postponed”, it is also now officially cancelled for the year. Organizers hope it returns to the Anaheim Convention Center on March 26-28, 2021."
San Diego Comic-Con 2020 Cancelled [UPDATE]
For the first time in its 50 year history, the show will not go on. Comic-Con International announced that there will be no San Diego Comic-Con in 2020 — and the next planned event will be July 22-25, 2021. Badge-holders will receive an e-mail in the coming week with instructions on how to either
sdccblog.com
LittleBuford
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Perhaps a more relevant framework for assessing the success (or otherwise) of Sweden's strategy is a comparison with other Scandinavian countries:
www.independent.co.uk
Sweden’s coronavirus death toll rapidly increasing compared to other countries
Prime minister opts against strict lockdown in contrast to neighbours
www.independent.co.uk
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