WDW is part of the world and the safety of their guests are top of mind so if you are going any time soon, mask up when required.
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DisneyFan32
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Is Mu variant will getting WORSE than Delta as the world will never get back to normal by next year or two.
GoofGoof
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I think they will change the rule when they feel it’s in their best interest to do so. There is likely no rush to drop indoor masks from a business prospective. From 10/1 through the holidays WDW will be packed so they don’t need to drop masks to entice people who don’t like masks to come. They also want to maximize crowd size so having an alternative mitigation is more favorable than selling less tickets. My gut says indoor masks could stay through the calendar year but they could also be dropped next week.
cjack300zx
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My employer just announced today that masks will be mandatory for everyone regardless of vaccination status starting Friday. Vaccines are not mandated yet but I would imagine that the union would have to sign off on that.
JoeCamel
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Have Fairy Godmother boink each guest on the head upon entrance with her wand while reciting "you will not behave like an animal in our parks"?
See above
DisneyFan32
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I don't want to wait until 2023 now. I bet next year as public transportation will end mask mandate as the cases will be low enough. Don't be true now.
GimpYancIent
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True about the mind set but after wards there is a reckoning (the proverbial blast from the past) that follows folks home where they are judged. Actually what happens in Vegas, now a days, does not tend to stay in Vegas.
And on the internet. Where it stays forever no matter how much you search and scrub.
Option 1: When cases in FL at least and preferably large parts of the country fall to Moderate Transmission levels. Probably and stay there for 7 plus days continuing to trend down. Below 50 cases per 100k for the last 7 days. Maintained for 7 days in a row, trending down.
Option 2: When demand drops and they believe it’s masks that are keeping people away. Probably need to also be at least in Substantial Transmission. Possible demand drop alone while still in High Transmission, but I doubt it.
I think those are the most likely scenarios. While I think 1 is better, I can easily see 2 happening.
The positivity metric was always a poor choice to base indoor masking on.
Timmay
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I’m curious about hospitals keeping dead bodies in tents in their parking lots.
That's a new one. The area must stink.
You think another 15 months?
GimpYancIent
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JAMA put together this chart. Death numbers are all incrementally up each year and COVID19 is not the high impact some say.
Table. Number of Deaths for Leading Causes of Death, US, 2015-2020a
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Interesting those numbers don't coincide with the CDC numbers for covid-19. You would think they would use the same metric. Even more scary is that that many people died of heart diseases and cancer.JAMA put together this chart. Death numbers are all incrementally up each year and COVID19 is not the high impact some say.
Table. Number of Deaths for Leading Causes of Death, US, 2015-2020a
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lazyboy97o
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Heart disease and cancer are also each a group of diseases with varying causes. COVID-19 is one disease with one cause.
That is splitting hairs. You can break up covid into some kind of groups as well if you really want to.
Its way to early to even guess, but like cancer is there some kind of genetic predisposition to suffer covid's effects more than others? Perhaps one day we will know. Should we be grouping covid based on what kind of underlaying causes they had when they got it? You can certainly, at a minimum, have two groups. Vaxxed and non-vaxxed. Then the specific death counts of each. Daily news at the moment. That said, heart disease and cancer are not contagious. So covid has its own special place.
But in the end only one thing matters. Dead is dead.
correcaminos
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COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in 2020, with an estimated 345 323 deaths, and was largely responsible for the substantial increase in total deaths from 2019 to 2020.JAMA put together this chart. Death numbers are all incrementally up each year and COVID19 is not the high impact some say.
Table. Number of Deaths for Leading Causes of Death, US, 2015-2020a
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Provisional, national mortality data show that the COVID-19 pandemic substantially affected mortality in 2020. Early estimates of life expectancy at birth, based on provisional data for January to June 2020, show historic declines not seen since World War II (1942-1943).7 The effects of the pandemic are likely to continue through 2021 as well because COVID-19 has already caused more than 100 000 deaths this year. (Dated 31st March 2021)
The Leading Causes of Death in the US for 2020
This Viewpoint from the US National Center for Health Statistics reports a 2020 mortality estimate 17.7% higher than that of 2019, with leading causes of death comprising heart disease, cancer, and COVID-19.
jamanetwork.com
According to them it was a decent impact.
Numbers aren't that far off considering JAMA states these are not finalized numbers.
During 2020, COVID-19 was listed as the underlying or contributing cause of 377,883 deaths (91.5 per 100,000 population).
Provisional Mortality Data — United States, 2020
The age-adjusted death rate increased by 15.9% in 2020. Overall death
www.cdc.gov
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Yet there’s a remarkable lack of curiosity in how we got here.
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