I've read it. It's a CM talking to a reporter.
Here it is again, unedited.
"Yeah, and if those Covid positive people will even say anything about it once the r positive, the whole thing is just a train wreck. Disney doesn't want to test because it would show just how many of u r getting sick & they'd have to close - which is what we're trying to achieve. Is there any other info u think we should know & include in the next letter to the governor? Again, u are NOT being mentioned & nothing is tied to any disney cast member that is supplying info All is sent under my wife's name"
Not exactly unedited- the text was not bold or underlined in the original message.
Now, let me take it apart.
"many of u r getting sick". U R, not "us", if these were two employees on the same team, it would be "us". It's also written much more polished. The employee is def not as well polished, which makes sense that the journalist would write more clearly and talk more.
Nobody claimed that the two Disney employees are both on the same team, just that they are both CMs. The article said,
“In an extensive thread of text messages sent between late July and mid August, all of which were reviewed by The Daily Beast, three workers discussed positive cases on the Horticulture Irrigation team and their fear of going into work.”
That’s 3 Disney employees (from different teams) discussing positive COVID cases on the Horticulture team.
"they'd have to close - which is what we're trying to achieve". Who is "we're"? The Horticulture team is trying to close down their own company?
Not the Horticulture team, but employees who had heard of positive cases on the Horticulture team. ”We” is the CM and his wife (“Alicia,” as mentioned in the article). They want the parks to close because CMs don’t feel safe going to work (alleging that coworkers are coming to work after testing positive).
"Is there any other info u think we should know". Two CM's are talking, right? Why is one saying "we" and why don't they already "know"? It's a reporter. That's why.
“We”- his wife and he- are writing a letter to Governor Newsom in an attempt to blow the whistle on Disney and get him to close the parks/Downtown Disney completely (not just to guests, but also CMs). The CM and his wife are asking another CM from a different team if he has any more info they should include in this letter.
"nothing is tied to any disney cast member that is supplying info All is sent under my wife's name". Info for what? A "news" article? I don't know a lot of people that talk like this unless it's strictly for a news piece. A journalist would be sure to make that point, a CM having a chat with another CM? Probably not.
Not for a news article, for a letter to Governor Newsom. Again, the article makes it clear that “Alicia” had already sent a message to the Governor:
“On July 8, 10 days after the cast members returned to work and one day before the district opened, she wrote messages to both the City of Anaheim and California Governor Gavin Newsom, flagging the danger on behalf of several cast members.“
and was going to send another:
”On behalf of her spouse, Alicia sent five messages to Governor Newsom’s office, to all of his social media accounts, and through his online comment portal.“
This is also in the actual text message, which you transcribed above:
The assurance of anonymity is out of concern that Disney would hear about the scheme to blow the whistle. The article mentions that CMs are contractually prohibited from speaking to the press, so they plan to send the letter to the governor in the wife’s name.
These are not two CM's from the Horticulture team talking with each other, but a reporter trying to make a story that can get Disney closed.
"they'd have to close - which is what we're trying to achieve". If I had to guess, the author of this article is not the person swaying these texts, but this person clearly isn't your average horticultural CM.
Again, nowhere does it say that these are two Horticulture team members, they are Disney employees from different teams.
Anyone is most definitely free to disagree. To each their own.
This isn’t really a “to each their own” sort of thing. It’s an article that followed the basic rules of grammar and journalism to communicate a story: that some CMs are claiming that Disney isn’t notifying them of positive COVID cases. Your misreading of the article and the opinion you based on that misreading is spreading misinformation.
Someone had to report something or it wouldn't be in the article.
There's a clearly stated mission to this.
Right. The wife of the CM spoke to the reporter at The Daily Beast and showed the reporter the text threads. The “clearly stated mission” is the CM and his wife trying to avoid getting coronavirus but not lose his job.
None of this is meant to be rude. It is intended to correct your misunderstanding so that we can discuss what the article actually says.
