News Disney mask policy at Walt Disney World theme parks

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Heelz2315

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Looks like the Orange Co state of emergency is set to expire tomorrow after multiple extensions.

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NEWS: Orange County, Florida Declares State of Emergency | the disney food blog

The Mayor of Orange County, Florida, where Walt Disney World is mainly located, declared a State of Emergency due to COVID-19 today.
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"UPDATE: The State of Emergency has been repeatedly extended over the past several weeks. As of the moment, the State of Emergency has been extended through October 13th. Stay tuned for more updates."
 
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Purduevian

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Disney will remove the indoor mask mandate when it is deemed profitable. Keep in mind profitability is not only based on quarterly financial reports. There are less concrete forms of profitability that include things like public perception, risk aversion, and CM availability, ect. The last thing disney wants is headlines stating that Disney is unsafe, or had an outbreak.
 
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Tom P.

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October82 said:
Yes, the vaccine is free. This is a good thing. But kind of irrelevant if you don't know it's free. Or you don't live in a city. Or you can't take time off work to get the vaccine.

People like you and me have access to the vaccine. Being able to trip over yourself and get vaccinated is what it means to have access to the vaccine. It's not remarkable that you would think it's easy to get the vaccine. That's the access problem
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There is no access problem. None. There is not one person in the United States who has not gotten the vaccine due to lack of access. There are many reasons people are not getting the vaccine, but that is not one of them. That is an excuse being tossed around to paper over our inability to get people to choose to be vaccinated. But the problem is not one of access, it is one of lack of desire.
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Trauma

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Heelz2315 said:
Looks like the Orange Co state of emergency is set to expire tomorrow after multiple extensions.

www.disneyfoodblog.com

NEWS: Orange County, Florida Declares State of Emergency | the disney food blog

The Mayor of Orange County, Florida, where Walt Disney World is mainly located, declared a State of Emergency due to COVID-19 today.
www.disneyfoodblog.com www.disneyfoodblog.com

"UPDATE: The State of Emergency has been repeatedly extended over the past several weeks. As of the moment, the State of Emergency has been extended through October 13th. Stay tuned for more updates."
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Well I would say that no longer being in a state of emergency would be a positive step towards being able to relax the masking guidelines.

So good news!
 
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Heelz2315 said:
Looks like the Orange Co state of emergency is set to expire tomorrow after multiple extensions.

www.disneyfoodblog.com

NEWS: Orange County, Florida Declares State of Emergency | the disney food blog

The Mayor of Orange County, Florida, where Walt Disney World is mainly located, declared a State of Emergency due to COVID-19 today.
www.disneyfoodblog.com www.disneyfoodblog.com

"UPDATE: The State of Emergency has been repeatedly extended over the past several weeks. As of the moment, the State of Emergency has been extended through October 13th. Stay tuned for more updates."
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It was extended yesterday for another 7 days (as has been the case).

 
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Trauma

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corsairk09 said:
Been watching this thread SO SURE that there would be an annoucement before my trip in NOvember that masks were optional. Seriously doubting that will happen :( . Oh well....
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Well if your trip is near the end of November, I would say you have hope.

Im sure they know how much it’s hurting business and looking forward to the first opportunity they have to drop the requirement.
 
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Trauma said:
Well if your trip is near the end of November, I would say you have hope.

Im sure they know how much it’s hurting business and looking forward to the first opportunity they have to drop the requirement.
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How exactly is requiring people to wear masks indoors hurting business? For every person whining about the rule there’s one person that’s there because of it.
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Trauma

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disneygeek90 said:
How exactly is requiring people to wear masks indoors hurting business? For every person whining about the rule there’s one person that’s there because of it.
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One quick look at my touring plans app shows those wait times are not even close to real.

Don’t confuse Disneys grossly overinflated wait times with the parks being busy.
 
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disneygeek90

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Trauma said:
One quick look at my touring plans app shows those wait times are not even close to real.

Don’t confuse Disneys grossly overinflated wait times with the parks being busy.
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Didn't someone post how hell-ish MK was like two days ago?

I understand it's not the busiest the parks have ever been but there's a lot of factors that are more likely to be actually covid/travel related than having anything to do with wearing a mask while riding Space Mountain.
 
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Could be. But I'm not convinced. The people who tend to be extremely pro-mask also tend to be the people who are still uncomfortable in large crowds, particularly large crowds with no gatekeeping around vaccination status.
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I agree with this. I didn't get the feeling when we went in May that the people there were particularly worried about COVID or happy about the mask requirement. The people here are a different story. I'm sure there are some who are happy that WDW is requiring masks, but I doubt it's one-for-one.
 
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disneygeek90

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CaptainAmerica said:
Could be. But I'm not convinced. The people who tend to be extremely pro-mask also tend to be the people who are still uncomfortable in large crowds, particularly large crowds with no gatekeeping around vaccination status.
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There's also a good amount of people (and probably a majority) like me that aren't all that bothered by it and understand it's a reasonable request.
 
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Texas84

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corsairk09 said:
Been watching this thread SO SURE that there would be an annoucement before my trip in NOvember that masks were optional. Seriously doubting that will happen :( . Oh well....
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The runDisney races start up again November 5th so I'm hoping they drop the requirements by then. If not they may have to provide masks for the start/finish buses.
 
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Trauma

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disneygeek90 said:
Didn't someone post how hell-ish MK was like two days ago?

I understand it's not the busiest the parks have ever been but there's a lot of factors that are more likely to be actually covid/travel related than having anything to do with wearing a mask while riding Space Mountain.
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You mean the person who said they are not comfortable in crowds so they went to Disney World?

Ok!
 
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danlb_2000

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CaptainAmerica said:
Could be. But I'm not convinced. The people who tend to be extremely pro-mask also tend to be the people who are still uncomfortable in large crowds, particularly large crowds with no gatekeeping around vaccination status.
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This! I am not delaying my Disney trip because I have to wear a mask, I am delaying it because conditions are such that they want people to wear masks.
 
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