News Disney mask policy at Walt Disney World theme parks

[ParentsOf4]

CDC is currently not recommending this,.so why would Disney do it?

From the CDC website:

Stay 6 feet away from others​

• Inside your home: Avoid close contact with people who are sick.
  • If possible, maintain 6 feet between the person who is sick and other household members.
• Outside your home: Put 6 feet of distance between yourself and people who don’t live in your household.
  • Remember that some people without symptoms may be able to spread virus.
  • Stay at least 6 feet (about 2 arm lengths) from other people.
  • Keeping distance from others is especially important for people who are at higher risk of getting very sick.

 

[Mark52479]

Here's a sample of current theme park availability:

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What Disney can do is stop allowing even more people to book these dates:

They wont.

They will go 100% capacity with indoor masks.

They are too far into opening everything up and getting ready for the 50th.

i dont see Disney doing anything else other than masks indoors.

 

[DisneyCane]

Mask police? That's just propaganda.
It's not like reminding someone of the fact that their mask has slipped is any different than telling them that their fly is open. If someone would start a physical altercation over that then they are coming to the parks with violence in mind. Yes, CM's should alter the sheriff and have them removed.

I don't know why you'd say it is propaganda. There are people who seem to get off on telling others to wear a mask or wear it properly. When one of those people comes into contact with a person like me who is sick and tired of being told what to do there will be confrontations.

I won't be involved in one outside of WDW because I'm more likely to just not engage and ignore. I won't subject myself to the annoyance by avoiding WDW until they remove the mandate again.

 

[zakattack99]

Here's a sample of current theme park availability:

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What Disney can do is stop allowing even more people to book these dates.

Oh totally, they could start backing off the park capacity until we are in a better place. But the fact that on the same day the opened more dates for October and also brought masks to back up to full price tells you there's not a snowballs chance in hell that's happening

 

[King Panda 77]

Sad that 18 months on and people still need to be told how to wear a mask properly.

 

[FutureCEO]

Sad that 18 months on and people still need to be told how to wear a mask properly.

haha yes. I've seen people touching the masks and wearing it under their nose.....like what's the point of having a mask on then?

 

[legwand77]

The vaccine mandate discussion really doesn't apply to the new CDC guidance, yes we need more vaccinated.

The new mask requirements for vaccinated/all is because the CDC determined that vaccinated people can spread the virus as much as the unvaccinated. They are/were very clear on that. Even moreso the metric for where people need to be masked is based on transmissibility not vaccinated rates. so whether or their is a vaccine mandate or something like it is moot in regard to the current guidance.

This is strictly about number of cases now as the guidelines and metrics show. The metric is not low hospitalizations, it is only about cases.

Note they also newly recommended on Tuesday, if a vaccinated person is exposed to a positive they should be tested even if asymptomatic and quarantine for ten days if positive. That is only going to increase cases even more. Masks at Disney are not going away any time soon at all (perhaps a few months early fall, when cases drop, then back on in late fall/winter). The mask recommendations are not about being unvaccinated, perhaps on a meta level, but not in reality where it is all about cases.

 

[DisneyCane]

Sad that 18 months on and people still need to be told how to wear a mask properly.

Almost 200 years after the invention of indoor plumbing, people leave stalls in the bathroom and don't even look at the sink so...

 

[MKFanatic]

CDC didn’t mandate masks indoors though just recommended it again. This will affect their profits again in some way

Yes I know but the person I was quoting suggested Disney go back to social distancing and lower park capacity.

They’re going to do the minimal needed to keep people happy (guests, media, local citizens, politicians) and keep the profits flowing. Right now the minimal being asked is mask up again indoors because Orlando is like ground zero.

 

[mickey0825]

What is your guess. Do you think Disney will drop the masks once the numbers go back down or will they keep them for a while? We have a trip planned for the end of January and wondering if I should be looking more into our backup plan.

There is no going back at this point...masks are here forever!!!

 

[pdude81]

For anyone having trouble with the science on masks relative to particle size, I'll try to bring it back to a practical question. Have you ever cleaned the pre-filter on your furnace?

Just about every dust particle you see there now wasn't visible to the naked eye when it was in the air, yet there they are. Gravity has two practical applications here. Not only the downward force from the earth's great mass, but the much larger mass (relative to vapor/virus) of particles in the mask that most of the air is passed through. Cloth masks are never going to catch everything and they were never meant to. They are meant to reduce the spread and reduce the overall distance particles travel after leaving the mouth of the wearer

 

[legwand77]

There is no going back at this point...masks are here forever!!!

guessing sarcasm, but probably more right than wrong.

 

[G00fyDad]

I don't know why you'd say it is propaganda. There are people who seem to get off on telling others to wear a mask or wear it properly. When one of those people comes into contact with a person like me who is sick and tired of being told what to do there will be confrontations.

I won't be involved in one outside of WDW because I'm more likely to just not engage and ignore. I won't subject myself to the annoyance by avoiding WDW until they remove the mandate again.

Karens meeting Karens. Should they tell you to pull up your mask because it is below your nose? No. Not their responsibility. Should you be wearing your mask correctly at all times? Yes. It is your responsibility.

 

[G00fyDad]

There is no going back at this point...masks are here forever!!!

And the entire Asian population of the Earth says "Yeah? What's new?"

 

[DisneyCane]

The new mask requirements for vaccinated/all is because the CDC determined that vaccinated people can spread the virus as much as the unvaccinated. They are/were very clear on that.

They weren't very clear on that. What they said was that in rare cases of breakthrough infections they've observed viral loads similar to unvaccinated infected people which suggests that vaccinated people may be able to transmit the virus.

There is no clarity. I believe that the change in mask guidance was because "cases" are going up and they couldn't be seen as not doing anything for PR reasons. Changing the mask guidance was something they could "do" without too much backlash. If they changed the guidance to places with high community transmission should go back to lockdowns there would be riots so they changed the mask guidance.

 

[Figgy1]

Saw this coming. The CDC announced lifting some restrictions too early. As a result, people stopped getting vaccinated. I think the mentality of "Well, now someone else will get vaccinated instead of me" takes over. We could be in a way better situation over this. The sad thing about it is that vaccines become a political issue.

This is all to be blamed on the selfish people that refuse to be vaccinated.

IMHO if so many had not lied by omission we wouldn't have gotten so bad. The honor system didn't work because far too many are dishonorable

 

[DisneyCane]

And the entire Asian population of the Earth says "Yeah? What's new?"

I've never observed many Asian Americans wearing masks regularly. I frequently go to Las Vegas during flu season and there is a large Asian population there. I don't think I've seen more than a handful wearing masks total in all of my pre-COVID visits. I have also been to San Francisco during flu season (although it's been 10 years or so since my last visit) and don't recall seeing any Asian person wearing a mask.

A decent percentage do in Asia (at least since SARS) but it's nowhere near the entire Asian population.

 

[mickey0825]

I've never observed many Asian Americans wearing masks regularly. I frequently go to Las Vegas during flu season and there is a large Asian population there I don't think I've seen more than a handful wearing masks total in all of my pre-COVID visits. I have also been to San Francisco during flu season (although it's been 10 years or so since my last visit) and don't recall seeing any Asian person wearing a mask.

A decent percentage do in Asia (at least since SARS) but it's nowhere near the entire Asian population.

I agree.....that was a pretty ridiculous statement

 

[DisneyCane]

It's coming. It's the only way out of this mess. And it can't come soon enough.

CDC director says European-style health passes 'may very well be a path forward' in US

European-style health passes for admission to public venues "may very well be a path forward" in the United States, said Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky.

news.yahoo.com

It isn't coming unless congress passes a bill that bans states from banning vaccine passports. If they do and it is signed into law it will be challenged in court faster than you can say "Mickey Mouse."

I put the chances of a bill passing at less than 10%. I don't think it would even get enough votes in the House of Representatives and that would be the easiest step in the process.

As I've said before, the only possible vaccine passport I could see is one required to pass through TSA security at the airport. That won't move the needle because anti-vax people will just drive instead of flying.

 

[pdude81]

They weren't very clear on that. What they said was that in rare cases of breakthrough infections they've observed viral loads similar to unvaccinated infected people which suggests that vaccinated people may be able to transmit the virus.

There is no clarity. I believe that the change in mask guidance was because "cases" are going up and they couldn't be seen as not doing anything for PR reasons. Changing the mask guidance was something they could "do" without too much backlash. If they changed the guidance to places with high community transmission should go back to lockdowns there would be riots so they changed the mask guidance.

I'm not sure you can say it's for PR, given that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention is trying to control the spread of a virus and it's resulting condition.