News Disney mask policy at Walt Disney World theme parks

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Tom P.

Tom P.

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BuddyThomas said:
Well, a brand new variant was just discovered in the UK and so far not too much is known about it. If I was in close proximity with hundreds of people, with their state or country unknown and their vaccination status unknown, be it on a monorail or on line for Space Mountain , I'd feel more comfortable if everyone was taking sensible masking precautions, but that's just me. I know this whole thread goes freaking bonkers if someone has the audacity to suggest "better safe than sorry". However, that didn't become a famous proverb for no reason.
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The problem is that there will *always* be a new variant. I don't mean that as hyperbole. I think that is actually, factually the case. We are not going to eradicate Covid. That ship has sailed. Covid is going to be with all of us for the rest of our lives. And it is going to constantly morph and have different variants and strains, much like the flu changes every year. (No, I'm not saying Covid is the flu!) So if you apply that "better safe than sorry" logic, you would never be able to relax measures such as masking.

Right now, we are at some of the lowest numbers that we have had in the United States since the pandemic began. Hospitalizations and ICU admissions related to Covid are both at the lowest level since the CDC started tracking them in July of 2020. Virtually the entire country is in the "green" on the CDC's risk assessment map. Could that change? Absolutely! But if now is not a time when people can relax and return to normalcy, there will literally never be that time, because the numbers we have right now are about as good as they are ever going to get.
 
Incomudro

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BuddyThomas said:
Well, a brand new variant was just discovered in the UK and so far not too much is known about it. If I was in close proximity with hundreds of people, with their state or country unknown and their vaccination status unknown, be it on a monorail or on line for Space Mountain , I'd feel more comfortable if everyone was taking sensible masking precautions, but that's just me. I know this whole thread goes freaking bonkers if someone has the audacity to suggest "better safe than sorry". However, that didn't become a famous proverb for no reason.
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Right...
But if you were in close proximity to those people maskless in ride queues and throughout the parks all day, what difference would it make if masks were only worn on select forms of transportation?
 
Incomudro

Incomudro

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Tom P. said:
The problem is that there will *always* be a new variant. I don't mean that as hyperbole. I think that is actually, factually the case. We are not going to eradicate Covid. That ship has sailed. Covid is going to be with all of us for the rest of our lives. And it is going to constantly morph and have different variants and strains, much like the flu changes every year. (No, I'm not saying Covid is the flu!) So if you apply that "better safe than sorry" logic, you would never be able to relax measures such as masking.

Right now, we are at some of the lowest numbers that we have had in the United States since the pandemic began. Hospitalizations and ICU admissions related to Covid are both at the lowest level since the CDC started tracking them in July of 2020. Virtually the entire country is in the "green" on the CDC's risk assessment map. Could that change? Absolutely! But if now is not a time when people can relax and return to normalcy, there will literally never be that time, because the numbers we have right now are about as good as they are ever going to get.
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I'll add to what you said, with something I've said since the beginning with covid when it was at its most dangerous: Those who are particularly worried about it, and/or particularly vulnerable can and should wear a well fitting N95 mask.
As for the rest of us, let us make our own health decisions.
 
TehPuddingMan

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BuddyThomas said:
Well, a brand new variant was just discovered in the UK and so far not too much is known about it. If I was in close proximity with hundreds of people, with their state or country unknown and their vaccination status unknown, be it on a monorail or on line for Space Mountain , I'd feel more comfortable if everyone was taking sensible masking precautions, but that's just me. I know this whole thread goes freaking bonkers if someone has the audacity to suggest "better safe than sorry". However, that didn't become a famous proverb for no reason.
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It’s not a new variant. Stop with the craziness.
 
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Disney4Lyfe

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BuddyThomas said:
Yes. It is.

www.independent.co.uk

What is Omicron XE? All we know about new Covid variant

XE combines genetic characteristic of the Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 variants, in what is known as a “recombinant”
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
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No. It’s not.

“XE is a mutation of the Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 strains - which is referred to as a “recombinant”.”

“XE belongs to the Omicron variant until significant differences in transmission and disease characteristics, including severity, may be reported.”
 
BuddyThomas

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Disney4Lyfe said:
No. It’s not.

“XE is a mutation of the Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 strains - which is referred to as a “recombinant”.”

“XE belongs to the Omicron variant until significant differences in transmission and disease characteristics, including severity, may be reported.”
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You can feel free to try to twist it however you want to twist it. There are all sorts of articles out right now stating clearly that this is a new variant.
 
Tom P.

Tom P.

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BuddyThomas said:
Yeah, I'll listen to some random tweets instead of multiple articles by multiple reputable news sources. Not. Now we better hurry up and get back on the topic of complaining about having to wear a small piece of cloth over our faces while on the WDW transportation system before we upset any of the powers that be.
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At what point do you think masking should stop?
 
TehPuddingMan

TehPuddingMan

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BuddyThomas said:
Yeah, I'll listen to some random tweets instead of multiple articles by multiple reputable news sources. Not. Now we better hurry up and get back on the topic of complaining about having to wear a small piece of cloth over our faces while on the WDW transportation system before we upset any of the powers that be.
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Chise Broussard is one of the lead scientists who developed the Moderna Covid Vaccine.

Professor Balloux is a director of genetics and advises the UK on their pandemic response.

Masks at Disney will end soon. Time to move on. Hopefully this thread will be closed and forgotten about.
 
BuddyThomas

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Disney4Lyfe said:
Honestly, sounds like you didn’t bother to read the body of the article you quoted.

Now you are lashing out in hopes it all gets deleted. Which I’m sure it will.
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All you have to do is a simple google search of COVID new variant and all sorts of things come up. I don't know why you people keep trying to play a freaking game of GOTCHA with me, but it is extremely tiresome and you all can have at it. I have better things to do with my time. GOOD BYE.
 
Tom P.

Tom P.

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BuddyThomas said:
All you have to do is a simple google search of COVID new variant and all sorts of things come up. I don't know why you people keep trying to play a freaking game of GOTCHA with me, but it is extremely tiresome and you all can have at it. I have better things to do with my time. GOOD BYE.
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Because you are consistently wrong and cannot handle it when called out on it. The article you quoted specifically says that it is not a new variant. It's in the text of the article. It has been quoted back to you. Yet you continue to stomp your feet and say that we are trying to play "gotcha". Someone quoted tweets from reliable sources, but you said you wouldn't believe random tweets. Then someone talks to you about what the article says, and you cite random Google searches as a rebuttal. . You got something wrong. Who cares? Let it go.
 
BuddyThomas

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Tom P. said:
Because you are consistently wrong and cannot handle it when called out on it. The article you quoted specifically says that it is not a new variant. It's in the text of the article. It has been quoted back to you. Yet you continue to stomp your feet and say that we are trying to play "gotcha". Someone quoted tweets from reliable sources, but you said you wouldn't believe random tweets. Then someone talks to you about what the article says, and you cite random Google searches as a rebuttal. Give it up, dude. You got something wrong. Who cares? Let it go.
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Remember the good old days, I mean yesterday, when you claimed you were not going to engage with me any more, but here you are doing so once again and telling me not to believe what I am seeing with my own two eyes. I could clutter up this thread with dozens of links discussing the "new variant", but the mods will have a flip out and none of you will read them or care. You will just claim that I am "wrong again" and that I am not seeing what I am seeing. I am not reading what I am reading. This board has become completely toxic over the past year or so, and I cannot continue to be in a place of total denialism or one with so much homophobia randomly floating all over other threads. I will not be responding to you or any of the rest of you any more so please make sure that you continue to drive anyone away who has a different view than you do. You all are very good at that.
 
Tom P.

Tom P.

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BuddyThomas said:
Remember the good old days, I mean yesterday, when you claimed you were not going to engage with me any more, but here you are doing so once again and telling me not to believe what I am seeing with my own two eyes. I could clutter up this thread with dozens of links discussing the "new variant", but the mods will have a flip out and none of you will read them or care. You will just claim that I am "wrong again" and that I am not seeing what I am seeing. I am not reading what I am reading. This board has become completely toxic over the past year or so, and I cannot continue to be in a place of total denialism or one with so much homophobia randomly floating all over other threads. I will not be responding to you or any of the rest of you any more so please make sure that you continue to drive anyone away who has a different view than you do. You all are very good at that.
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Can you please respond to the direct quotes from the article you provided which say that it is not a new variant?
 
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GimpYancIent

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helenabear said:
Psssst... mask thread. We're here for policy updates. With the 18th looming I think it would be wise to not risk getting this one closed when policy might change soon ;)
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Just saying.
 
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