Wall to wall guests buying merchandise is money to Mickey's ears. A parade where guests stand or sit for hours to secure their viewing spot does not have guests spending all their vacation cash. A member posted recently in the 50th forum that lots of WDW hotel rooms available in the future. Make the money now before the slowdown in business.
Are you saying if you got covid earlier, you have protection going forward? If that is the case, that would be great.
I'm aware. But taking a socially distanced selfie with a character off in the background isn't the same as taking a photo with the character.
You don't need a business degree to understand why they are doing what they are. I was just pointing out the hypocrisy of it.
Here's a military analogy, the hunt for Osama bin Ladin. For years, we kind of knew his general vicinity, but couldn't identify precisely where. So, we had two options. Carpet-bomb the entire region and deal with all the collateral fall-out, or carefully gather intelligence, select and train an elite team of operatives and launch a precision strike that results in bin Ladin having a bullet go through his skull, but spares almost everyone else in the immediate area.
Didn't you post you work for the company? Did you share your feedback?
To follow up on the Bin Laden analogy, we should have alloted the requested forces at the time we were tracking him in Tora Bora and not allowed him the opportunity to escape into Pakistan. This would have resulted in no need for intervention in Pakistan.
That's not how the immune system works, hence my analogy of the way things actually happened, not the way we would have liked in hind-sight.
But perfectly safe
Pfizer is still tracking the initial trial participants but they also started a new trial on the impact of 3rd shots using some of the same participants. Pfizer did raise the issue of boosters months ago and they did begin to compile the data that they presented to the FDA a month ago that resulted in approval of the boosters for high risk people. So far the data Theu presented wasn’t compelling enough to result in approval of a 3rd dose for everyone, but they are continuing the trial on shot 3 and when they have enough data I’m sure they will present it and the FDA will decide.
No it wasn't. They've listed it as "additional dose" on the weekly state report since the 9/3 report. I've been pointing out the apparent missed second doses for months. The numbers are consistent and have been since months before the booster was recommended/authorized.
Not sure about FL but there has been an issue for months around me with 1st vs 2nd dose reporting. They realized it was a problem when the percent of 65+ with 1 dose exceeded 100%. The problem was that people didn’t always go back to the same location for dose 2. This was especially true in the beginning when everyone was scrambling for shots. Some people drove an hour or more to get their first appointment but then got shot 2 somewhere closer to home. The pharmacies and medical centers didn’t do a good job splitting out shot 1 vs shot 2 so some shot 2s got counted as a second shot 1. So the number of people with 1 shot is overstated and the number fully vaccinated is overstated. That’s why PA shows 83.7% of eligible people with 1 shot but 66.8% fully vaccinated. We also show 99.9% of 65+ with at least 1 shot and only 87.9% fully vaccinated and that’s obviously not accurate. That 17% gap isn’t real and doesn’t represent people who skipped shot 2. It’s bad numbers and I don’t know if there is any way to fix it.
Hopefully the same is the case in FL with bad data because the official report shows 13,621,499 residents with at least one shot and 11,370,030 with a complete series. Using the official population of 21,975,117. That's 62% of the population with at least one shot and 51.7% with a complete series. My estimate looking at the reports over the weeks is that around 4.5% more should have had the second shot by this poin. Hopefully it is an error in reporting and most of them have.
How do you know that?
I would argue that way too many people who are vaccinated are not doing enough to make that known. 76% of eligible people 12+ have gotten at least 1 dose so only 24% haven‘t gone. No way 76% of people are actively supporting the vaccination effort. When we hear the arguments a lot of places there is a perception that the pro/anti groups are split something like 50/50. The reality is the vast majority of people have accepted the vaccines and have gone in to take it. I think for some communities it would help those who are reluctant if their peers who are fully vaccinated talked about it more. Some big name NBA players have recently come out and talked about it. That helps. For the politics crowd it’s a shame some of the talking heads who push resistance to the vaccine don’t talk about the fact that they are fully vaccinated themselves.
Maybe people are just sick of being told many different things by scientists and governments and then changed and backtracked on. Yes, many of the frustrated understand much of the science isn’t exact and things do change…but be very up front at the beginning and don’t blow sunshine up everyone’s skirt. For me frustration comes from the message, not the facts. I was fully vaccinated back at the end of March, and was just yesterday approved for my booster. I didn’t run out and scheme my way to a third dose. I did what I was supposed to and consulted my physician. For those of us that do indeed play by the rules of vaccine and mask recommendations this is also maddening to see people getting an unauthorized third dose.
