Mask Mandates Dropping For Disney Transportation?

[GimpYancIent]

Disney is a private company and can still require masks for as long as they want.

True but not smart.

 

[GrumpyFan]

Exactly. Comcast is a huge corporation and they haven't required masks on universal transportation for quite some time.

Airlines are huge corporations and would suffer much more than Disney if they are seen as unsafe COVID spreaders and they all dropped masking pretty much instantly. My friend said there are videos of the policy being dropped mid flight today.

I think the difference is in the size of the fleet operations.
Disney has a lot more buses and drivers than Universal.

The NTSB jurisdiction came following the monorail accident in 2009. The NTSB injected themselves as the investigator and Disney accepted that change acknowledging that it was the first time the NTSB investigated a privately operating transportation system on private property. The NTSB classifies the monorail as a railroad and investigated it as such.

A quote from the NTSB at the time- “It is a widely used transportation system that is used by the public,” he said.

As I understand it the masking difference on the Skyliner has to do with the smaller capacity of the individual vehicles.

The NTSB is an investigative agency, they don't have regulatory authority.

I believe because of the size of Disney's bus operations, it means they would be subject to US Department of Transportation (USDOT) and Florida DOT (maybe) regulatory agencies.

The fact that Disney operates in their own government entity (RCID) has little to do with things, because it still resides within the broad reaching authority of DOT and FDOT.

 

[drizgirl]

How so? They are private transportation and if this was the case they would have had to continue doing so on the skyliner. They are not subject to federal guidelines in that way.

Disney only dropped them on the Skyliner to avoid pushback when they dropped them on the $tarcuiser.

 

[correcaminos]

Disney only dropped them on the Skyliner to avoid pushback when they dropped them on the $tarcuiser.

Don't think so. They were removed while I was there. Indoor masks were dropped before that. Same with boats. Unless you're talking the truck ride. Which never made sense to me.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

It does seem like a mystery what lawyers, medical staff, and risk teams might use to justify any of their actions, especially concerning mask mandates.

What they’re doing to try and “end” this…is a bit of a mystery…The whole 2+ year thing…really isn’t. It was never going to be “clean” or “definitive”…but everyone has learned from it…if they choose to.

Obviously that’s a harder sell than it should be.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Disney only dropped them on the Skyliner to avoid pushback when they dropped them on the $tarcuiser.

I’m not sure skyliner falls in the same category…at least from Disney’s perspective. If you don’t mix parties…is it really a “public transportation system”? That gives them a little wiggle and it’s their own narrative anyway.

 

[Bob Harlem]

 

[Trauma]

Except they didn't drop them immediately. So we're left wondering when....

You have to remember who we are talking about here.

When I say immediately for Disney, that would be within 24 hours.

 

[drizgirl]

Don't think so. They were removed while I was there. Indoor masks were dropped before that. Same with boats. Unless you're talking the truck ride. Which never made sense to me.

I'm talking about Disney dropping masks on the Skyliner in the same announcement where they dropped them on the Box Truck attraction.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

It's not a mystery - you just have to think like a billion dollar corporation that has a brand and reputation to protect (obviously pre-culture-war).

If there's a chance, even miniscule, that Disney could be outed as the site of a massive super spreader, they will take as much action as possible to shift the responsibility onto the guests.

Beyond that, Disney is a HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE corporation who will be slow to act and react owing merely to its internal processes and bureaucracy.

Source: me: I work with brands; and my wife: an insurance attorney who deals with issues of risk.

Dude…you way out kicked your coverage…

 

[mkt]

True but not smart.

Let's not pretend that Disney's only ever made good decisions.

Or do I need to remind everyone of Mickey's Kitchen, The Lone Ranger, and Journey Into Your Imagination?

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Let's not pretend that Disney's only ever made good decisions.

Or do I need to remind everyone of Mickey's Kitchen, The Lone Ranger, and Journey Into Your Imagination?

All leftover decisions regarding this kind of thing are a political and economic guessing game. Everyone wants “normal”…but the liability of making mistakes is why few lawyers ever go broke.

 

[mkt]

Dude…you way out kicked your coverage…

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What? We were both at a bar, she was cute, we started talking...

...and 7 years later, we're both married, living in Miami, and have a kid.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

What? We were both at a bar, she was cute, we started talking...

...and 7 years later, we're both married, living in Miami, and have a kid.

That’s textbook for the phrase I was using.

 

[Disstevefan1]

 

[danlb_2000]

I’m not sure skyliner falls in the same category…at least from Disney’s perspective. If you don’t mix parties…is it really a “public transportation system”? That gives them a little wiggle and it’s their own narrative anyway.

But they do mix parties on the Skyliner.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

But they do mix parties on the Skyliner.

But they don’t HAVE too…which is a claim you can’t make with a bus, monorail or boat

 

[correcaminos]

You have to remember who we are talking about here.

When I say immediately for Disney, that would be within 24 hours.

Ah gotcha! I was thinking whenever did Disney ever react immediately- in a more specific sense?

 

[correcaminos]

I'm talking about Disney dropping masks on the Skyliner in the same announcement where they dropped them on the Box Truck attraction.

Which was always dumb IMO. But yes they classified both as attractions at the same time. I still say the monorail is but....

 

[DisneyFan32]

Which was always dumb IMO. But yes they classified both as attractions at the same time. I still say the monorail is but....

Meanwhile....Broadway shows will EXTEND mask mandate until May 30th....or they can could change their minds if COVID 19 cases is low in NYC by next month.

Most Broadway Theaters Will Drop Vaccine Checks, but Not Mask Mandate

The owners and operators of the 41 theaters have decided to relax audience safety protocols that have been in place since last summer.

www.nytimes.com

There is no place like a mask mandate show business....

Now we will getting worried in this Fall/Winter as the future COVID surge will be bad for mask mandate come back for everywhere as transportation too in this Fall/Winter. I'm scared about this.