At this point it's like expecting Disneyland to remind California drivers to wear their seatbelt.
1. I think it's hilarious that people on here are acting like Disneyland is still closed because they refuse to buy their way open...
...because...
2. I don't believe Disney can buy their way open.
If that's still hard for you to digest, I'm sorry. I don't know how else to explain it.
And quite frankly, I'm over the semantics games. Have a nice weekend.
What's amazing is that they think people are still obeying them and cancelling Thanksgiving.
Have to give you the Fortitude Award Mac Tonight.
Part of the problem is that while we have many folks shouting from the rooftop about masks and distancing, we have a president that sets a completely different example. All he had to do was get onboard at the beginning. The damage is done and as hard as Biden might try, there is no way you are going to get those that have already followed Trump's lead to change. We're hosed until we have a vaccine...best that we all just hunker down for another 4-5 months and take care of ourselves as best we can.
His cult like followers will still care. They will be carrying the torch in an effort to get him to try and run in 2024...if he's not in prison.
Yeah, he's already indicted for the same crime his lawyer went to jail for. We'll see what happens but regardless, he'll get the attention he craves.
Just imagine if you were some poor unlucky fool also celebrating their 50th birthday on the exact same day in Southern California, and all you wanted to do was go to Disneyland for that special day as you'd planned for as long as you can remember. Double points if you'd planned to stay at the DL Hotel and eat a celebratory meal at Goofy's Kitchen! Instead, the best you could do was go to Downtown Disney and have a milkshake. Without all your friends you'd planned to celebrate with because groups are not allowed to congregate. Without birthday buttons given out and cast greeting you by name or the Dapper Dans singing 'Happy Birthday' to you - because singing is forbidden even if the Dappers weren't all furloughed. How annoyed must you be that the day you waited half a century to celebrate was canceled... by the man who went to someone else's 50th birthday party that night with a group of friends. Huh. That would suck.Isn't it great?!? I mean, you couldn't make this up if you tried. Aunt Nancy getting caught in an illegal speakeasy hair salon in her own district was fabulous, but this is just as good.
Newsom's own administration released rules in October specifically forbidding "Gatherings" of more than 3 households, and no Gatherings may be indoors; outdoor dining only with those 3 households, and Gatherings may be no longer than 2 hours at a time.
So what does Mr. and Mrs. Newsom do in November? They travel to a different county with over double the infection rate of Orange County, to a small indoor dining room with 6 other households and more than one dozen people for a private birthday party at a restaurant famous for it's 3+ hour long, 9 (nine!) course meals. And if they sang "Happy Birthday" when the rules specifically say no singing, then they literally broke every rule in the book. PERFECTION!
But you are probably right from a medical perspective; smugness and arrogance is a natural repellant of COVID-19. And when you put a thick layer of hypocritical elitism over that, I think it even protects the help and the kitchen staff. Mr. and Mrs. Newsom were selflessly protecting their fellow Californians by going to that birthday party!
Yeah, definitely doesn't compare to sitting outside socially distanced on a planter ledge in Downtown Disney with a to-go milkshake in a plastic cup while having Cast Members watch closely to make sure your mask was up the second you took the last slurp through your soggy paper straw. Mmmhmm.For those who may feel guilty about celebrating Thanksgiving indoors with family this year, don't be. Here's the facts on the birthday dinner Governor Newsom attended at The French Laundry this month.
Newsom's dinner took place on November 6th. The weather in Yountville, California that day was partly cloudy with a high of 62 and a low of 45. Obviously the dinner with 12 people was indoors with the windows closed with evening temps in the 50's heading towards the 40's. It was likely held in this private dining room at The French Laundry that seats up to 12 people, since all large parties at The French Laundry need to go through the Private Dining reservation system and having the super cool Governor attend would automatically trigger extra-schmooziness anyway.
I really do like those Saarinen-esque chairs! But it's not an overly large room, as you can see. Often a suburban home has a dining/great room space this size or larger, plus you've got the kids table out in the family room to spread dining even further apart. And rarely does a Thanksgiving dinner stretch longer than 3 hours at the table, unlike the famous 9 course menus presented at The French Laundry.
So if Mr. and Mrs. Newsom can attend a long, indoor dinner in this small room with a dozen other people from 6 other households, then you can certainly have a dozen or more friends and family over to your home for Thanksgiving!
It's COVID-19 Proof! Apparently you can't spread or catch Covid by dining like this.
Yeah, definitely doesn't compare to sitting outside socially distanced on a planter ledge in Downtown Disney with a to-go milkshake in a plastic cup while having Cast Members watch closely to make sure your mask was up the second you took the last slurp through your soggy paper straw. Mmmhmm.
#magical
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True. I guess I'm just too uncultured to have deserved a better celebration. Unlike the governor's lobbying buddy.
