OC Register - Disneyland and Universal Studios ask Newsom not to finalize theme park reopening plans just yet

[TP2000]

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Alpine Inn... hanging in there.

The motel just past it, the much bigger stucco one in the distance, is the Desert Palms there on the corner of Katella and Harbor. The General Manager of that hotel was quoted a few days ago in the OC Register, venting his frustration on the complete lack of information on how they might be able to reopen in the future. And it's also a good example of how these businesses have collapsed. From the Register article..

Manager Fred Brown of The Desert Palms Hotel and Suites spoke on how his hotel has been empty since mid-March. The once 80-employee hotel is now running on 3 staff members.

"I really wish that the governor would give guidelines for theme parks so that we can at least start working on a plan to know what we have to do to get open."

 

[Emmanuel]

But next spring? Those Resort District planters are going to burst forth with the most beautiful flowers and foliage!

Grown with locally sourced and the finest manure. Spared no expense

 

[el_super]

My favorite part about this is it implies that opening a themepark somehow effects opening schools, as if the government operates both of them and only has enough staff for one at a time.

It turns out that school students and theme park visitors use the same hospitals, so it absolutely makes sense that the opening of schools would be tied to the opening of the parks.

 

[GimpYancIent]

Then why the repeated turning to misunderstanding, false statements and even conspiracy theories? I don’t even like the concept of lockdowns but a decision based on lies is not one made in good faith.

Exactly, So why are all these falsehoods used as excuses to keep DL locked down?

 

[el_super]

Exactly, So why are all these falsehoods used as excuses to keep DL locked down?

Because the falsehoods being used to justify reopening it are even more egregious.

 

[cmwade77]

My favorite part about this is it implies that opening a themepark somehow effects opening schools, as if the government operates both of them and only has enough staff for one at a time.

I always laugh at these articles that don't understand basic math, if Iger makes $65,000,000 per year, divide that by the 28,000 employees being laid off and that is $2,324.43 per employee per year. And that is assuming Iger gave up his entire paycheck for the year. Honestly, it wouldn't help much, if at all other than as a goodwill gesture.

 

[cmwade77]

Put your mask back on in between bites of food?!?!

He's not losing support, he's losing his mind. This has slipped into SNL parody at this point.

Seriously, this goes against what you are supposed to do with handling masks, you are supposed to wash your hands before touching your mask, can you imagine, take a bit of food, wash your hands, put your mask on, rinse and repeat?

Yikes! Seriously, the mask is supposed to stay off until you are finished eating, even the image attached to the tweet says as much, so nuts when the tweet contradicts itself. Well, I guess he is taking tweeting lessons from the President.

 

[TP2000]

Today the new Racial Equity Metric was added to the Four-Tier Blueprint For A Safer Economy for any county with more than 106,000 people in it. As expected, it sets all the big counties further back after they were advancing quickly to the lower tiers. Orange County will remain in the Red Tier for some time now, and Los Angeles County was pushed even further back in the Naughty-Dirty Purple Tier now.

I don't think we need to worry about reopening Disneyland in 2020. This is gonna take awhile...

Orange County is failing state’s new health equity metric, remains in the red tier

Residents of the county’s hardest hit neighborhoods are testing positive at more than twice the rate as the county as a whole.

www.ocregister.com

State public health officials have released new health equity figures aimed at spotlighting disparities in neighborhoods that have higher shares of positive tests than the rest of their counties.

The new metric serves as a third test going forward that will decide in which of the state’s pandemic tracking system’s four tiers a county falls into – from purple for “widespread” risk to yellow for “minimal” risk.

In Orange County’s census tracts where residents have lower incomes, less health care access and other socioeconomic obstacles, the share of tests coming back positive for the virus is 6.6%, about double the county as a whole.

Until testing positivity in the county’s most impacted neighborhoods drops below 5.2%, Orange County will remain in the red tier for “substantial” risk.

 

[TP2000]

I always laugh at these articles that don't understand basic math, if Iger makes $65,000,000 per year, divide that by the 28,000 employees being laid off and that is $2,324.43 per employee per year. And that is assuming Iger gave up his entire paycheck for the year. Honestly, it wouldn't help much, if at all other than as a goodwill gesture.

Except there is another 70,000 CM's working, or not working, at Disney World. Plus thousands at the Cruise Line, thousands more at Disney Stores, DVC, Aulani, etc.

If you add only the Disneyland and WDW CM's together, and then confiscate Iger's entire 65 Million paycheck, that gets you a total of $650 per year, or $54 per month, for each American Parks CM.

If you took the Top 100 of Disney's execs, assuming they make an average compensation of $5 Million (and I think that's way too generous, as I have it on good authority that the DLR President is barely into the seven figures, but lets just say $5 Million) and you confiscate the entire salary of all of those top 100 paid executives, that gets you a total of $500 Million.

Then divvy that confiscated salary money among the 225,000 CM's and employees of the Walt Disney Company who are not executives (from Imagineers to payroll clerks to custodians to plumbers to ride operators), it gets you to the total of $2,220 per year, per employee. Or $185 per month, per employee.

$185 per month, if you confiscated the entire annual salaries of the top 100 paid executives at the Walt Disney Company.

Yeah... maybe we should just try running the company as normal, instead.

 

[Mac Tonight]

Except there is another 70,000 CM's working, or not working, at Disney World. Plus thousands at the Cruise Line, thousands more at Disney Stores, DVC, Aulani, etc.

If you add only the Disneyland and WDW CM's together, and then confiscate Iger's entire 65 Million paycheck, that gets you a total of $650 per year, or $54 per month, for each American Parks CM.

If you took the Top 100 of Disney's execs, assuming they make an average compensation of $5 Million (and I think that's way too generous, as I have it on good authority that the DLR President is barely into the seven figures, but lets just say $5 Million) and you confiscate the entire salary of all of those top 100 paid executives, that gets you a total of $500 Million.

Then divvy that confiscated salary money among the 225,000 CM's and employees of the Walt Disney Company who are not executives (from Imagineers to payroll clerks to custodians to plumbers to ride operators), it gets you to the total of $2,220 per year, per employee. Or $185 per month, per employee.

$185 per month, if you confiscated the entire annual salaries of the top 100 paid executives at the Walt Disney Company.

Yeah... maybe we should just try running the company as normal, instead.

Silly, TP... that's too much math! The Kristin Roberts of Pasadena's of the world say otherwise!

 

[TP2000]

Silly, TP... that's too much math! The Kristin Roberts of Pasadena's of the world say otherwise!

I'd bet 10 bucks that both Pasadena Kristin and Topanga Christi With An 'I' have no idea that their iPhones have a calculator on them.

 

[Mac Tonight]

I'd bet 10 bucks that both Pasadena Kristin and Topanga Christi With An 'I' have no idea that their iPhones have a calculator on them.

Even if they did, I'd be shocked if they could be bothered for five minutes to do some actual math instead of just repeating something they probably read on Twitster.

 

[MarvelCharacterNerd]

Today the new Racial Equity Metric was added to the Four-Tier Blueprint For A Safer Economy for any county with more than 106,000 people in it. As expected, it sets all the big counties further back after they were advancing quickly to the lower tiers. Orange County will remain in the Red Tier for some time now, and Los Angeles County was pushed even further back in the Naughty-Dirty Purple Tier now.

I don't think we need to worry about reopening Disneyland in 2020. This is gonna take awhile...

Orange County is failing state’s new health equity metric, remains in the red tier

Residents of the county’s hardest hit neighborhoods are testing positive at more than twice the rate as the county as a whole.

www.ocregister.com

State public health officials have released new health equity figures aimed at spotlighting disparities in neighborhoods that have higher shares of positive tests than the rest of their counties.

The new metric serves as a third test going forward that will decide in which of the state’s pandemic tracking system’s four tiers a county falls into – from purple for “widespread” risk to yellow for “minimal” risk.

In Orange County’s census tracts where residents have lower incomes, less health care access and other socioeconomic obstacles, the share of tests coming back positive for the virus is 6.6%, about double the county as a whole.

Until testing positivity in the county’s most impacted neighborhoods drops below 5.2%, Orange County will remain in the red tier for “substantial” risk.

Don't get too attached to the current color-coded system @TP2000 as apparently it's already in planned obsolescence stage per Deadline yesterday:

"Newsom said he would like to see all of California’s counties out of the purple tier. Accordingly, the state is hoping to update its new tiered guidance system “by the end of the year.”

“It’s an iterative process,” he said."

California Coronavirus Update: Governor Gavin Newsom Says, “This Is The Second Wave” As Cases Rise Across The U.S.

Amid an increase in COVID cases nationwide, California Governor Gavin Newsom observed, "This is the second wave."

deadline.com

 

[Tamandua]

Don't get too attached to the current color-coded system @TP2000 as apparently it's already in planned obsolescence stage per Deadline yesterday:

"Newsom said he would like to see all of California’s counties out of the purple tier. Accordingly, the state is hoping to update its new tiered guidance system “by the end of the year.”

“It’s an iterative process,” he said."

California Coronavirus Update: Governor Gavin Newsom Says, “This Is The Second Wave” As Cases Rise Across The U.S.

Amid an increase in COVID cases nationwide, California Governor Gavin Newsom observed, "This is the second wave."

deadline.com

**wink wink** After the election we can switch to something more reasonable **wink wink**

 

[cmwade77]

Today the new Racial Equity Metric was added to the Four-Tier Blueprint For A Safer Economy for any county with more than 106,000 people in it. As expected, it sets all the big counties further back after they were advancing quickly to the lower tiers. Orange County will remain in the Red Tier for some time now, and Los Angeles County was pushed even further back in the Naughty-Dirty Purple Tier now.

I don't think we need to worry about reopening Disneyland in 2020. This is gonna take awhile...

Orange County is failing state’s new health equity metric, remains in the red tier

Residents of the county’s hardest hit neighborhoods are testing positive at more than twice the rate as the county as a whole.

www.ocregister.com

State public health officials have released new health equity figures aimed at spotlighting disparities in neighborhoods that have higher shares of positive tests than the rest of their counties.

The new metric serves as a third test going forward that will decide in which of the state’s pandemic tracking system’s four tiers a county falls into – from purple for “widespread” risk to yellow for “minimal” risk.

In Orange County’s census tracts where residents have lower incomes, less health care access and other socioeconomic obstacles, the share of tests coming back positive for the virus is 6.6%, about double the county as a whole.

Until testing positivity in the county’s most impacted neighborhoods drops below 5.2%, Orange County will remain in the red tier for “substantial” risk.

Well, this would be racist and discriminatory, so should be easy for someone to file a lawsuit over this metric.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

 

[cmwade77]

Don't get too attached to the current color-coded system @TP2000 as apparently it's already in planned obsolescence stage per Deadline yesterday:

"Newsom said he would like to see all of California’s counties out of the purple tier. Accordingly, the state is hoping to update its new tiered guidance system “by the end of the year.”

“It’s an iterative process,” he said."

California Coronavirus Update: Governor Gavin Newsom Says, “This Is The Second Wave” As Cases Rise Across The U.S.

Amid an increase in COVID cases nationwide, California Governor Gavin Newsom observed, "This is the second wave."

deadline.com

Translation:
After the election is over, there will be no reason to continue this farce of keeping the state closed.

 

[GimpYancIent]

Well, this would be racist and discriminatory, so should be easy for someone to file a lawsuit over this metric.

After all of this will there still be an OC or an abandoned shell of a community with a few tumble weeds blowing through? Have to admit DL and CA would make a great static display museum to walk through.

 

[TP2000]

Don't get too attached to the current color-coded system @TP2000 as apparently it's already in planned obsolescence stage per Deadline yesterday:

"Newsom said he would like to see all of California’s counties out of the purple tier. Accordingly, the state is hoping to update its new tiered guidance system “by the end of the year.”

“It’s an iterative process,” he said."

California Coronavirus Update: Governor Gavin Newsom Says, “This Is The Second Wave” As Cases Rise Across The U.S.

Amid an increase in COVID cases nationwide, California Governor Gavin Newsom observed, "This is the second wave."

deadline.com

Oh my God. Of course his third version of a statewide system is not designed to last more than 90 days. What do you think those Sacramento bureaucrats do four-and-a-half days per week, just sit around and check Facebook? They're workin'!

It's a good thing I drink!

 

[MarvelCharacterNerd]

Oh my God. Of course his third version of a statewide system is not designed to last more than 90 days. What do you think those Sacramento bureaucrats do four-and-a-half days per week, just sit around and check Facebook? They're workin'!

It's a good thing I drink!

I'd bet he's just adding new colors. Perhaps a lovely chartreuse? (But never green!)