Has the entire resort ever been completely shuttered in 50 years?

Chef Mickey

Chef Mickey

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networkpro said:
This is just another iteration in a different media environment for Yellow Journalism ...William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, journalism of the 1890s used melodrama, romance, and hyperbole to sell millions of newspapers.
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I don’t know if it’s all yellow journalism, but it’s certainly a gray area between reporting facts and endlessly pontificating on “how bad could this get” and “death rates double” when they go from 4 to 8 and you read 6 of those were over 80 years old and 2 had underlying medical conditions.

My point has always been, let’s stick to the facts, minimize the projecting, and report the good news too.

We've literally had people calling for every American becoming infected and 4% of those dying. People threw out this would kill more Americans than all wars combined.

That actually may all turn out true, but:

1) Is it necessary to say it at this point, before it has any basis in reality?
2) Is that really based on any facts or just a worst case chicken little scenario?

It’s basically like me saying x, y, z could happen. If I keep throwing enough things out there, one might stick. But people would call me crazy and stop listening pretty quickly.

We have people that predict things like market crashes, every single year. When the market finally corrects, that person is saying, “SEE, I TOLD YOU!!” Meanwhile, they predicted it 36 times and lost money 35 out of 36 years because they were always too scared to invest.
 
jloucks

jloucks

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jloucks said:
People for whatever reason, love drama. Love it. Revel in it. So yea, the press is going to work that angle.

Doesn't change the fact this covid is out of the bag and at least 4x as bad as the flu. Any way you cut it, that is going to make all the headlines.

Which then makes me wonder if there is really something more to it. I have been watching the World Health Organizations death-o-meter and for those that don't know, the average kill percentage is going up every single day. You have to do a little math to see this, as they don't spell it out for you. But just divide cases by deaths. At this rate it will be 5% soon. Which sounds low, but in reality is really really freakin high.

On Edit: It is up to 4.16% this morning. 207855 cases, 8548 deaths.

An yes, I realize this doesn't count unreported cases.
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4.18% today. That's slower than before and that's good news. So long as treatment supply (global) remains this rate could stabilize.
 
Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

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TrainChasers said:
Why did you feel the need to correct his information after Martin mentioned the exception and it had been noted?
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No need for a defense/explanation...

Like everyone else...I was attempting to do my research and theorize in real time...so I made an oversight...two actually. That was my mistake but it wasn’t meant to mislead.

This was - however - likely past grievances to other topics. That’s my pattern...I spitball, I look for other angles, people get mad...or they ignore me...then look to play “gotcha” or go other places to complain instead of engaging in the discussions.

It’s no big deal.

I will say that having all Disney facilities shut down - as is happing right now - has never been DONE before. They’ve never been close to a full shutdown since they went global. Not even close.

I don’t think that’s debatable. However I know I can never say “never” there 😎
 
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po1998

po1998

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I just read that the golf courses at WDW are still open. I guess that qualifies as part of the WDW resort still being open.
 
TrainsOfDisney

TrainsOfDisney

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po1998 said:
I just read that the golf courses at WDW are still open. I guess that qualifies as part of the WDW resort still being open.
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Technically they are run by a 3rd party I think. I think the swan is still open as well?

Is anything at Disney springs still open?

They will be closed soon enough... the “non-life-essential” rule will go into effect in Florida soon enough.
 
Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

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TrainChasers said:
Technically they are run by a 3rd party I think. I think the swan is still open as well?

Is anything at Disney springs still open?

They will be closed soon enough... the “non-life-essential” rule will go into effect in Florida soon enough.
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We’re there already...

Non-essential will be nationwide in a few days (prediction)

We have to work within the limits of our government/medical industry. Shut it down now and see where we are if we can’t screen...and we can’t do that yet

And FYI...my thinking has evolved a lot on this...by the hour. If we don’t adapt...everyone is at risk.
 
durangojim

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Pepper's Ghost said:
Unprecedented. Although I realize how serious and awful COVID-19 is, I don't understand why this one is so much worse than H1N1 which killed >151,700 people. Why wasn't there a similar reaction to that one? This is a sincere question by the way.
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It is much more contagious and will overwhelm health systems causing their limited resources to be used up so people with other conditions will not have access to machines like ventilators, etc. People will die because of covid 19 who don’t even have the disease.
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jloucks

jloucks

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jloucks said:
4.18% today. That's slower than before and that's good news. So long as treatment supply (global) remains this rate could stabilize.
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4.37% ooching up a little. Nothing too crazy.

And no, that number does not include all the unreported cases or untested deaths.

On edit,,, but if you blow the curve (run out of beds) we could end up at 9.259% like Italy right now. o_O
 

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