News Disney mask policy at Walt Disney World theme parks

[yensidtlaw1969]

Yeah more restrictions I love it!!

They should also keep people 6 feet apart using tasers.

Sorry, I read your post as "I wish Disney were enforcing measures that have some actual effictiveness instead of mere theatre" as opposed to "I'm looking for any excuse at all to trash masks, regardless of whether any of them help or not". My mistake?

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

Supermarket opens at 7am, I'm one of the first in first out little to no contact with other customers when store opens up.

Some exposure has actually proven to be beneficial. Our immune systems are strengthened by fighting germs, they just can’t be overwhelmed.

“After a coronavirus vaccination, exposure to the circulating virus will trigger an immune response to protect against infection and at the same time will also boost your immunity, said Monica Gandhi, an infectious-diseases expert at the University of California at San Francisco.”

I work in a casino and I’m around thousands of people a day, I haven’t been sick yet (not symptomatic anyway). That’s true for most my vaccinated coworkers, we’re exposed to it daily so our only explanation is strong immune systems due to daily exposure.

Being too cautious could actually be counterproductive.

 

[DisneyHead123]

Sure.....

Yes, you’re right, it’s all a conspiracy!! Glad you caught on to Big Data!!

 

[Trauma]

Some exposure has actually proven to be beneficial. Our immune systems are strengthened by fighting germs, they just can’t be overwhelmed.

“After a coronavirus vaccination, exposure to the circulating virus will trigger an immune response to protect against infection and at the same time will also boost your immunity, said Monica Gandhi, an infectious-diseases expert at the University of California at San Francisco.”

I work in a casino and I’m around thousands of people a day, I haven’t been sick yet (not symptomatic anyway). That’s true for most my vaccinated coworkers, we’re exposed to it daily so our only explanation is strong immune systems due to daily exposure.

Being too cautious could actually be counterproductive.

So when my daughter and I had it ( both vaccinated I’m boosted ) my wife never “caught” it.

What’s interesting about that is she didn’t avoid us at all, she mine as well have been bathing in Omicron.

The at home tests would come back negative.

So that means either she was asymptotic and the tests did not detect it, or somehow the vaccine prevented her infection even though she was immersed in it.

Guess I’ll never know, I just found it interesting.

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

So when my daughter and I had it ( both vaccinated I’m boosted ) my wife never “caught” it.

What’s interesting about that is she didn’t avoid us at all, she mine as well have been bathing in Omicron.

The at home tests would come back negative.

So that means either she was asymptotic and the tests did not detect it, or somehow the vaccine prevented her infection even though she was immersed in it.

Guess I’ll never know, I just found it interesting.

My gfs son tested positive over Christmas, her, her daughter, and her son in law didn’t catch it despite spending the whole week together in a townhouse. (All vaccinated) My neighbor caught it last year, pre vaccines, and her husband and daughter didn’t catch it despite living in the same house.

It’s a bit of a mystery, some peoples immune systems just seem better prepared to fight it at specific times while others aren’t.

 

[correcaminos]

So when my daughter and I had it ( both vaccinated I’m boosted ) my wife never “caught” it.

What’s interesting about that is she didn’t avoid us at all, she mine as well have been bathing in Omicron.

The at home tests would come back negative.

So that means either she was asymptotic and the tests did not detect it, or somehow the vaccine prevented her infection even though she was immersed in it.

Guess I’ll never know, I just found it interesting.

That's what vaccines can do. I know more than one family where someone tested positive and not all did in the house. Often those who did were super mild or asymptomatic. People like to downplay, but they really do help more than people realize.

 

[DisneyCane]

It's not a part of natural development for children to not see full human faces.
What we are doing to them is sick and sadistic.

100%. It's also not natural for an adult to not be able to have non-verbal communication via facial expressions with other adults.

It's one of the reasons that pilots don't wear masks in the cockpit.

 

[Trauma]

That's what vaccines can do. I know more than one family where someone tested positive and not all did in the house. Often those who did were super mild or asymptomatic. People like to downplay, but they really do help more than people realize.

I know they help we are all alive!

What I am wondering is how accurate the at home tests are for Asymptotic people specifically with the Omicron variant.

I’m sure we won’t have accurate data on that for a very long time.

 

[Incomudro]

I have immunocompromised inlaws so yes we've been wearing masks around them at all times and not eating with them since the beginning except for a short window last summer this was under guidance of their by their doctor

I wouldn't expect you to do otherwise.
Heck, I'd hope you wear real masks - N95's, and when things were really bad, pre-vaccine times - I wouldn't even visit people in that condition at all.
But again, I was referring to households who live under the same roof.
Mom & Dad, and 2.2 healthy kids, where no one is sick.
If there are households like that who live together wearing masks (and I bet there are) they're nuts.

 

[Chip Chipperson]

If you wear a mask around your own family in your home, you need psychiatric help.

So these poor abused kids you mentioned actually DO see full faces then?

 

[LittleBuford]

I don't know why everything has to be so all-or-nothing. Children are continuing to see maskless people (any suggestion that they're not is absurd), but that doesn't mean that the unprecedented adjustments we've made during the pandemic (including widespread masking) aren't going to have psychological and/or emotional repercussions for children, and indeed for all of us. COVID is bound to be a pivotal moment in the world's psyche.

 

[correcaminos]

I know they help we are all alive!

What I am wondering is how accurate the at home tests are for Asymptotic people specifically with the Omicron variant.

I’m sure we won’t have accurate data on that for a very long time.

For any home test they aren't always as accurate as the swabs they do deeper on in the throat. Though if no one had symptoms it could be the rest was fine. That said and I repeat this often. Trials didn't do random asymptomatic testing. We tested before shots. So far that's it. So we never checked to see asymptomatic. Quickly googling there is zero consensus on how much spread can be caused by asymptomatic people anyway. So... my thought we'll never get it.

I don't know why everything has to be so all-or-nothing. Children are continuing to see maskless people (any suggestion that they're not is absurd), but that doesn't mean that the unprecedented adjustments we've made during the pandemic (including widespread masking) aren't going to have psychological and/or emotional repercussions for children, and indeed for all of us. COVID is bound to be a pivotal moment in the world's psyche.

We've all changed because of it and for many masks have nothing to do with the emotional changes.

I just cannot see how people think wearing a mask on a ride messes with psyches. I don't always love it but I've done worse things in my life

 

[Dranth]

Yeah more restrictions I love it!!

They should also keep people 6 feet apart using tasers.

If only. Why are people so desperate to invade others space anyway? What does cramming yourself up against others do for people exactly?

If your reading this Bob, I’ll pay an up charge to rent a Mickey taser to use in the parks.

 

[LittleBuford]

We've all changed because of it and for many masks have nothing to do with the emotional changes.

I just cannot see how people think wearing a mask on a ride messes with psyches. I don't always love it but I've done worse things in my life

I'm clearly not saying anything remotely akin to that, though. I'm saying that the past two years have changed the world as we knew it, and that the changes in question (which include the institution of widespread mask wearing) are collectively going to have emotional and/or psychological consequences for just about everyone. Everyone is different and will be impacted to varying degrees (or not at all) by each of these changes.

 

[Incomudro]

So these poor abused kids you mentioned actually DO see full faces then?

I've been talking about out of the house, school primarily.
The faces kids see outside of their home should not be masked.
Imagine growing up where every face you saw outside of your own family looked like they were going to perform surgery on you?

 

[correcaminos]

I'm clearly not saying anything remotely akin to that, though. I'm saying that the past two years have changed the world as we knew it, and that the changes in question (which include the institution of widespread mask wearing) are collectively going to have emotional and/or psychological consequences for just about everyone. Everyone is different and will be impacted to varying degrees (or not at all) by each of these changes.

More of an FYI this is a mask at WDW thread and I'm trying to stick to the subject. We have the other covid thread for bigger discussions. Please read my comments towards that entirely.

I've been talking about out of the house, school primarily.
The faces kids see outside of their home should not be masked.
Imagine growing up where every face you saw outside of your own family looked like they were going to perform surgery on you?

So 10 minutes indoors for a ride is bad? Don't buy it. Sorry.... outdoors there are no mask requirements.

 

[disneygeek90]

I'd like to see Disney step up their requirement to N95's. That's all I wear now in light of Omicron. They have rules about Gaiters and such not being permitted due to their ineffectiveness, that should evolve with what we know about the active variants.

Someone wore a bandana on POTC today and no one said a word. I don’t think WDW has the CM manpower to start requiring N95’s.

I recently bought KN95’s and wore inside today rather than the cloth I had been.

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

Someone wore a bandana on POTC today and no one said a word. I don’t think WDW has the CM manpower to start requiring N95’s.

I recently bought KN95’s and wore inside today rather than the cloth I had been.

My Lululemon masks say:

“This is not a medical-grade mask and has not been approved by any regulatory authority. Consult local health authority guidance on use of non-medical grade face coverings and other steps to reduce COVID-19 transmission.”

but they’re comfortable and conform to all Disney, state, and work requirements so that’s what I wear. My guess is 99% of the masks we see people wearing probably say the same in the fine print.

I’m sure they limit spray if I cough or sneeze though so they’re technically doing their job.

 

[disneygeek90]

My Lululemon masks say:

“This is not a medical-grade mask and has not been approved by any regulatory authority. Consult local health authority guidance on use of non-medical grade face coverings and other steps to reduce COVID-19 transmission.”

but they’re comfortable and conform to all Disney, state, and work requirements so that’s what I wear. My guess is 99% of the masks we see people wearing probably say the same in the fine print.

I’m sure they limit spray if I cough or sneeze so they’re technically doing their job.

Exactly, they may not be fully protecting you from outside particles, but they’re certainly decreasing spread if you’re a carrier. At the end of the day that’s absolutely better than nothing.

 

[bdearl41]

Absolutely. Every bad thing does eventually. Why don’t you think it will?

Oh I was being sarcastic. Also admittedly I’m fatigued. Every time we see a light at the end of the tunnel we get a new variant. I do think it ends, I’m just so very over it.