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News Disneyland Resort in California plans to begin phased reopening July 9
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mickEblu
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I think people just have to be practical and have common sense. It’s not practical to expect people to wear masks while they re laying out on the beach. That’s why even though their are signs at Zuma saying masks required and police officers driving up and down the beach nobody was wearing Masks or being fined because of it. At at theme park however, I would imagine the vast majority would comply because things would be more organized and it’s not like at the beach where you can kind of choose to stay with your group on the sand away from other people to an extent. I’m not sure how things are going at WDW but everyone is complying at the stores in DTLA, the valley, Hollywood etc.
I’m tired of hearing people hate on America. I keep seeing people compare how these tiny European countries Handled the virus compared to America and it’s just ridiculous. The U.S. is an enormous country with a lot of people and diversity. This is a huge disadvantage when it comes to something like containing a pandemic. With that said, I don’t even know for certain that more could have been done. Can we say for certain that if we quarantined for another few weeks/ months everything would be ok today? I also don’t watch the news much because I don’t like to be depressed so I may be out of the loop or maybe it makes it easier to think for myself. I dunno. Also, I’m probably the wrong person to have this convo with because I question just how dangerous the COVID is to people that are not elderly or with underlying conditions (basically the same people susceptible to all the other diseases/ viruses not just COVID) and what political chess moves might be in play.
mickEblu
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We already know what you look like
George Lucas on a Bench
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Ugly
mickEblu
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You re too hard on yourself man
Darkbeer1
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Well, you can afford a plastic surgeon!
SuddenStorm
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At the very least Mr. Lucas needs to learn how to properly trim the neckline on a beard. His style doesn't complement his face structure well at all. At the very least it'd be a start, and cheaper then the plastic surgery!
I mean, yikes!
I mean, yikes!
mickEblu
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SuddenStorm
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Here's ole' George without a beard from an old Star Tours publicity photo. Of course here he needs the hair trimmed around his ears... so I would say his hair style has only improved since the '80s.
Curious Constance
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DrAlice
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See! This is why we can't have nice things!
lazyboy97o
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There were places that tried to limit sales of specific items in department stores. The whole point of using categories was to avoid having to make value judgements about every single business and then each aspect of those businesses.
Electronics were generally considered essential as business supplies.
Target did limit capacity but a larger store is going to have a larger capacity.
The comparisons to Europe are often to the European Union, a collection of countries with a larger population than the United States. More people, more diversity.
There are college football players with heart inflammation. That alone should tell you that your assessment of the severity of the virus is incorrect.
Here are the parks I know that are open:
- Magic Kingdom
- EPCOT
- Hollywood Studios
- Animal Kingdom
- SeaWorld Orlando
- SeaWorld San Antonio
- Busch Gardens Tampa
- Legoland Orlando
- Universal Studios Orlando
- Six Flags over Texas
- World's of Fun
- Dollywood
- Silver Dollar City
- Holiday World
- Silverwood
- Lagoon
- Busch Gardens Williamsburg
You know why? Because they are safer than just about anywhere else.
And for mental health, theme park and other entertainment venues are absolutely essential, we need to fix the fact that there have been substantially more suicides than COVID deaths, we need to reduce suicides, not increase COVID of course.
PiratesMansion
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I've visited five parks or so and my local zoo since things have reopened.
I would say only one park (Kings Island) had most people complying with masks and distancing regulations. Simply put, some parks (and certainly not Brookfield Zoo) just didn't have the staff to really enforce the guidelines, and even parks with lots of staff can't always get people to do what they need them to do.
I was continually amazed at how many people were trying to slip the masks off, or were letting them hang off their ears, or had them not covering their noses, and so on. There were also a number of occasions where an employee would ask the guest to put the mask on, and the mask would come off again as soon as the employee turn away.
Social distancing was also mixed, particularly in queues. I truly don't think most people were intentionally being jerks or flauting the markers on purpose, but it's simply reality that people are still conditioned to behaving in a park as they would have in any other year.
Reportedly, Disney's doing a great job of enforcing this in Florida. Hopefully that's accurate, but it's also determined by individual perception. On what I saw as one of the worst park days in terms of following covid guidelines, there were people praising the park for how well they did on social media. Frankly, given Disney's track record for enforcing most other rules, I feel somewhat justified in being skeptical that it's as good at Disney World as many people are saying.
I accept that in visiting amusement parks and zoos I assumed risk. I did my best to do my part, follow the guidelines, and adapt to the modified experience. But if following the new guidelines is common sense, it's a lot less common than you would think or hope. At least, in my experience. While there are a lot of people in, say, Florida that are talking about how much mask compliance is better at WDW vs. their local grocery store, the opposite has been true in the Chicago area and the Midwest over the summer. It's definitely very frustrating to have so much of your risk being affected by other people who don't seem particularly concerned about anyone they didn't walk into the gate with, but that's where we are now, I suppose.
There have been many, many students that have tested positive for covid over the last few weeks as schools have reopened and the powers that be have pushed to have students return to school buildings regardless of whether or not that was actually practical for our current situation. It's looking more and more as though part of the reason there were fewer cases among students is less because they're better equipped to deal with the virus, and more because, by closing the schools, students were removed from their primary opportunity to become exposed to covid. Here's just one example:
Ga. School District Quarantines Hundreds Of Students Over Fears Of COVID-19 Exposure
Barely a week after Georgia reopens its public schools, a district north of Atlanta reports nearly 60 positive tests among students, teachers and staff, and closes one hard-hit high school.
www.npr.org
Askimosita
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Sorry to interrupt the COVID discussion, but I went to DTD this evening and saw a lot of what looked like executives at the GC. Ton of cars. Also, few people rearranging furniture in the DL hotel. Could see them through the windows. Also, lots of DCA rides testing lights and fun things.
I love seeing these things because it renews my sense of “we are so close!”
Also, Jazz Kitchen opened up today, including Express, and I got my very first piping hot bag of beignets on the way out. Wowza, they make them well.
I love seeing these things because it renews my sense of “we are so close!”
Also, Jazz Kitchen opened up today, including Express, and I got my very first piping hot bag of beignets on the way out. Wowza, they make them well.
PiratesMansion
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While mental health is essential and too often misunderstood and minimized within our society, I don't believe being unable to go to a park is a significant driver to suicides. It would seem more likely that any increase would be as a result of job loss, illness of self or a family member, increased anxiety, etc. There are cheaper and more viable places for most people to get out for a little while than a place that requires a season pass or 70 plus dollars/ticket on the low end and parking to get into. Theme parks cannot remotely be considered essential businesses. No one will live or die based on their ability to go to a theme park.
Most Americans aren't ready to go back:
72% of Americans uncomfortable going to a theme park, poll finds
A new poll by the Morning Consult research company found that three-quarters of American adults would not feel safe climbing aboard a roller coaster or screaming on a thrill ride right now at a U.S…
www.ocregister.com
I say all of this as a person who routinely visits 20+ parks a year. Perhaps the ultra-involved, I've-gone-to-Disneyland-every-day-for-five-years crowd might be more affected by all of this, but that's a minute percentage of their visitors.
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And what drives job loss, especially in California? Theme park and other entertainment venues being closed, there is a major knock on effect that we ignore. I am not saying only theme parks, buy theaters of all types, heck even having gyms closed is for some entertainment that is closed, etc.While mental health is essential and too often misunderstood and minimized within our society, I don't believe being unable to go to a park is a significant driver to suicides. It would seem more likely that any increase would be as a result of job loss, illness of self or a family member, increased anxiety, etc. There are cheaper and more viable places for most people to get out for a little while than a place that requires a season pass or 70 plus dollars/ticket on the low end and parking to get into. Theme parks cannot remotely be considered essential businesses. No one will live or die based on their ability to go to a theme park.
Most Americans aren't ready to go back:
72% of Americans uncomfortable going to a theme park, poll finds
A new poll by the Morning Consult research company found that three-quarters of American adults would not feel safe climbing aboard a roller coaster or screaming on a thrill ride right now at a U.S…
I say all of this as a person who routinely visits 20+ parks a year. Perhaps the ultra-involved, I've-gone-to-Disneyland-every-day-for-five-years crowd might be more affected by all of this, but that's a minute percentage of their visitors.
As for no one will live or die because theme parks are closed, tell that to all of the businesses that are dependent on theme parks operating and are in very real danger of having to close their doors forever, including several local farms that also provide us with food. The problem with the farms is they don't have enough demand outside the parks to stay open, but yet also provide enough food to all of us that we will have a serious lack of food if they shut down permanently. No one really comprehends how interconnected southern California is with theme parks
These all contribute and are issues, as everyone is more stressed than ever with no way to relive said stress. It is a recipe for disaster.
PiratesMansion
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Reportedly other countries paid their citizens to stay home. That would probably dramatically lower stress, particularly about finances, in addition to reducing covid exposure/outcomes.
Are we not the richest country in the world? Could we not do/have done the same thing?
Just reopening theme parks/businesses/things is not a magical cure all. Not saying we need to keep things closed for as long as possible either, just saying the situation requires a bit more nuance.
Askimosita
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While mental health is essential and too often misunderstood and minimized within our society, I don't believe being unable to go to a park is a significant driver to suicides. It would seem more likely that any increase would be as a result of job loss, illness of self or a family member, increased anxiety, etc. There are cheaper and more viable places for most people to get out for a little while than a place that requires a season pass or $70/ticket plus parking to get into. Theme parks cannot remotely be considered essential businesses. No one will live or die based on their ability to go to a theme park.
Most Americans aren't ready to go back:
72% of Americans uncomfortable going to a theme park, poll finds
A new poll by the Morning Consult research company found that three-quarters of American adults would not feel safe climbing aboard a roller coaster or screaming on a thrill ride right now at a U.S…
I say all of this as a person who routinely visits 20+ parks a year. Perhaps the ultra-involved, I've-gone-to-Disneyland-every-day-for-five-years crowd might be more affected by all of this, but that's a minute percentage of their visitors.
If you look at the study Itself, it wasn’t exactly a fair representation of the normal theme park going group. A majority of those interviewed had below the national average income—I believe it was something like 58% below 50k and the national income is around 62k—and significantly less than the average income of those that visited theme parks—which was 86k in 2017....
Also—and my calculations may be off because it’s been a while since I was in my stats program— but in order to properly have 95% confidence in this study with the claimed 2% margin or error, the study needs about 200 more people to be an accurate sample representation of US adults. If they wanted a 99% confidence, they would have tested a little less than 5000 people.
My point is, a study is a study, but the data can be twisted in any which way, and presented even more differently, especially in a secondary or tertiary source. I bet a majority of the people that continue to share the article didn’t look at the numbers and demographics themselves. Which I probably wouldn’t either if I wasn’t a researcher for a living
but that number doesn’t distinguish those not visiting theme parks because of COVID vs because of job loss and evidently an already low income. Because 46% want to go next year rather than this year, it doesn’t mean it’s because COVID is so bad right now—though obviously that’s a great assumption. It could be because the finances aren’t there. 