LittleBuford
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Check out the revised thread title.
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Check out the revised thread title.
I changed it just now out of frustration. Why it should remain in WDW News and Rumors is beyond me.
ImperfectPixie
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It escalated very quickly here, too. There was a single high school student who had traveled to Milan mid-February and didn't feel well, and on March 5th, we were notified that there's be no school on the 6th so the long weekend could be spent disinfecting all the town's schools. A few days later on the 9th, we got the good news that the student tested negative. Still zero confirmed (or even presumed) positives in our county (when I checked yesterday), and all cases of presumed or verified positive are well north and northwest of us, but we were notified on the 13th that there would be no school from the 16th-27th. While I'm glad steps to minimize spread are being taken, I really fear that the town jumped the gun. (But I do realize that the likelihood of no one in our county having COVID-19 are slim if not impossible.)
21stamps
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For me it is. I don’t know if I want my kid to miss classroom time and any more time out of baseball and soccer season by going to Disney World a few days after everything else in his life has resumed.
I think a lot of people are in that same boat right now. Others may be questioning if they still want to spend the money on a WDW trip if the husband or wife has been out of work without pay during this time.. or owns a business who was harmed by the social distancing.
Hence the declared National Emergency so they have the ability to do it.
VJ
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i miss vmk..
LittleBuford
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Oh, I forgot you were the OP!
These are exceptional times. Moving the thread to the Politics and Social Issues section would lock out anyone with fewer than 100 posts. I’m glad the moderators are just letting us roll with it here—it’s strangely cathartic.
And angry much of the time. I created it to discuss the imminent closure of WDW. I assumed that by this point, there’d be a social issues thread. It seems most here meet the quota. But I’ll let it go and self-quarantine myself from it.
I don’t know why @wdwmagic still thinks this has anything to do with WDW any longer. It has devolved into a politics and social issues thread. I made a post there. There’s no reason these “discussions” should mutate and infect other parts of the board.
1. Some people do not have the number of posts needed to access the other forum.
2. People seem to feel better after venting here, or at least discussing this with people who understand that even though going to WDW isn't important to most people, it is to them.
So this thread has remained open as a courtesy to forum members who may not have anyplace else to "talk" even though it has strayed far afield.
It means anyone who does, and it happens at a fairly constant rate will be part of the triage of deciding who lives and dies.
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Well, here's another one.
Coronavirus-hit cruise ship in diplomatic scramble to find somewhere to dock | CNN
A cruise ship with coronavirus cases on board is searching for somewhere to dock in the Caribbean after it was refused entry at several ports.www.cnn.com
And did the British Virgin Islands sink into the sea?
LittleBuford
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Please stay! You may not have intended to do so, but you’ve created something that really does feel helpful and reassuring at this bizarre time.
Nobody wants them. They can be rejected until they go through the process of declaring a maritime emergency. Then based on maritime law once they have completed the process, the closest port must accept them. It's something like that.
Correct. But that’s a lot better than our data set.
VJ
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i read that halfway through and started to say "why isn't this making me laugh..."
ImperfectPixie
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^^^^ Times 1000!!! With the parks and resorts closed/closing, I come here to see if anything new and pertinent has popped up in discussion, since I generally like to avoid the bull that has become the media news outlets. And I love that for the most part, we can count on each other for good information.
21stamps
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That was going to be my question. Why wouldn’t they take the ship? It’s a British company, I would think Britain should be responsible.
The Right to Assembly as guaranteed by the Constitution means the government can't stop you from gathering because they don't like you or don't agree with you. If a government official broke up an Assembly for no good reason, the Supreme Court would be on your side.
But, like all rights, it is not unrestricted. Your Freedom of Speech rights doesn't allow you to yell 'fire' in a crowded theater causing a panic. The government will surely punish you for it and the Supreme Court would applaud.
The assembly of citizens can be curtailed if governments have sufficient reason, usually dealing with public safety. They can impose curfews. They can keep crowds off of public parks to protect the park. They can impose martial law. They can disburse assemblies that have become violent or destructive. They can quarantine infectious people.
And if the government did so for the proper reason of public safety... the Supreme Court would applaud.
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It is almost impossible to keep such a broad topic as this strictly on track to WDW. Especially now that we know the short term future of the parks.I don’t know why @wdwmagic still thinks this has anything to do with WDW any longer. It has devolved into a politics and social issues thread. I made a post there. There’s no reason these “discussions” should mutate and infect other parts of the board.
If you want pure straight info on WDW, just stay tuned to the front page of www.wdwmagic.com or this thread https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/coronavirus-covid-19-walt-disney-world-operating-status.963821/
LittleBuford
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I disagree with you on the media. People should be reading more news at times like this, not less. The better-established and more reputable outlets are still quality sources of reliable information, much of which has been relayed in this thread.
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