Bob Harlem
Well-Known Member
Hahahahah what a joke. Here is whats going to happen. Disney will sue California. Disney will (hopefully) win and then Disneyland will open.
Cedar Fair already did this successfully in Ohio.
Hahahahah what a joke. Here is whats going to happen. Disney will sue California. Disney will (hopefully) win and then Disneyland will open.
Perhaps. But blindly following one political party (in the eyes of the average CA voter) because the other is perceived as worse in a state where most of the populance is more focused on other objectives does not equate to a far reaching mandate of this proportion.This really ignores the political climate in California and that the officials in charge are really doing so under the mandate of the public at large (that's hot democracy works). The parks may end up suing, but doing so risks alienating and upsetting a large segment of their prime local visitor base, the majority of which are supportive of health and safety guidelines. Additionally going counter to the guidelines could result in a similar situation as in Florida, where even if they are open, people refuse to travel because they feel the parks are still unsafe and unnecessary.
Violating recommended safety processes in order to open too soon can be damaging to the brand for a much longer time than this temporary closure will last.
Will never happen IMO...but I would see them announcing more layoffs now. Basically, if they assume that they will not open until Q1/Q2 of 2021, there really is no reason for them to have anyone on the payroll outside of whatever maintenance is needed to keep the park up. I would expect the vast majority of all construction to stop at this point. At some point, they will have to "guess" when they are going open and hire enough people that can be trained and ready for opening day.I think they should get the 18 wheelers queued up for the move to Texas , I bet they would be able to open sooner in Austin than Anaheim
This is downright stupid. Disney needs to fight.
At this point, they better...Lawsuit is bound to come in the next few weeks. I'm sure it will be joined by every other major theme park operator in CA.
If you want Disneyland to reopen, do everything you can to support OC and Anaheim moving into the Yellow Tier: send a message to the Board of Supervisors and Anaheim City Council telling them you want to see more being done to control the spread of the virus. Tell them you want to see more enforcement of mask wearing and social distancing. Tell them you want responsible re-openings to include reducing unnecessary interactions, allowing people to work from home and discontinue friendly gatherings and business luncheons.
We absolutely could have been done with this by now, if people hadn't been so resistant to obvious safety precautions during a pandemic.
Wear a mask and wash your hands.
Legal groundwork for a potential lawsuit has already been laid out. This will likely cause them to pull the trigger.Lawsuit is bound to come in the next few weeks. I'm sure it will be joined by every other major theme park operator in CA.
That not a true statement. Looking at the map of tiers in California now I see many counties are in the yellow tier.Getting down to 1 case per 100,000 residents in the Yellow Tier is impossible until everyone has either had it, or been vaccinated.
That not a true statement. Looking at the map of tiers in California now I see many counties are in the yellow tier.
Don’t worry. Next update they’ll have to start testing coyotes for COVID and that’ll take care of this sparsely populated counties being in the yellow tier nonsense.Those are the Northern California counties that have a few thousand people versus the 50,000 coyotes in each county.
Modoc County is not the point of reference that Orange County and Los Angeles County can use.
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One of those counties is Humboldt, where I went to undergraduate school. It has a population of 135,000. I wouldn't call that a few thousand.Those are the Northern California counties that have a few thousand people versus the 50,000 coyotes in each county.
Modoc County is not the point of reference that Orange County and Los Angeles County can use.
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Meanwhile we just moved back into the purple tier in Riverside county...all indoor seating closed again. $%&#!!!!Getting down to 1 case per 100,000 residents in the Yellow Tier is impossible until everyone has either had it, or been vaccinated.
Look at Europe where they had all the same mask and economy shutdowns that California has had, and see how their cases have spiked in recent weeks. The European countries, most of whom are smaller in population than just the state of California, have case rates per 100,000 currently that are astronomically higher than California's very small case rates....
Los Angeles County = 10.1 cases per 100,000
Orange County = 4.6 cases per 100,000
France = 213 cases per 100,000
United Kingdom = 170 cases per 100,000
Germany = 42 cases per 100,000
Netherlands = 276 cases per 100,000
The lowest case rate in the European Union this week is in Iceland.
Iceland = 6 cases per 100,000
Even if they moved Disneyland to Iceland, they still couldn't reopen. Iceland is in the Red Tier.
The European Respiratory Virus Surveillance Summary (ERVISS)
This interactive dashboard provides a weekly integrated epidemiological summary for influenza, RSV and SARS-CoV-2.www.ecdc.europa.eu
Maybe our friend @DrAlice can weigh in. But getting down to only 1 case per 100,000 on a 7 day rolling average is basically the eradication of the virus.
It's not just getting the vaccine started, it's waiting until everyone in California has been vaccinated and the virus is gone. What am I missing there? I am not a medical professional, but 1 case in every 100,000 people seems extremely small.
I continue to marvel and be impressed with how forceful the language is from Disney's senior executives on this.
The guidelines mean Disneyland will be closed for a very long time, and then hopefully reopen much later in 2021 at a small fraction of its designed capacity.
That is an unworkable business model, even for big evil corporations like Disney (Paging Dr. Moreno!). It just doesn't work, it puts Disneyland out of business.
It's too bad they had to get to this point to push back on Sacramento. Even as forceful and blunt as the current language from Disney is... it's too little, too late.
The theme park industry in California is toast. Just think what the executives at small companies that have less access to capital and cashflow must be thinking today... Sea World, Knott's Berry Farm, Legoland.
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