Florida is the epicenter of the coronavirus and ....Disney World reopens

[spanone]

Disney World reopens: Take an inside look at the Magic Kingdom today

(CNN) — The wait is over.

Four months after closing because of the coronavirus pandemic, Walt Disney World Resort in Florida has officially reopened.

Disney confirmed to CNN Travel that the Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom opened their gates this morning.

Epcot and Hollywood Studios are set to welcome guests on Wednesday.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/disney-world-magic-kingdom-reopens/index.html

[soothsayer]

1. Yep

[CentralMass]

2. What could possibly go wrong ?

[beachbumbob]

3. who could have predicted?

[Chainfire]

6. State government just doesn't care

There is money to be made, damn the safety of the people.

[Chainfire]

4. Disney closed when Florida was averaging about 1,000 new cases daily; it was a smart move.

Florida logged 10,360 new cases today and Disney opens. It is a crazy world we live in.

For the last seven days, Florida has averaged over 9,400 new cases daily....Today, on Worldometer, Florida registered 95 new deaths of 159 new deaths nationally, (59.7 %) and yet our Republican governor will not even order face masks......

Welcome to Florida!

[malaise]

5. That happens when you have a

Micky Mouse Governor sucking up to the King of Cons

[spanone]

8. It just pure insanity. America the stupid.

[malaise]

9. See Charlie Pierce today

[spanone]

10. Yep.

What's insane is that it's worse in Florida than when they closed down....money trumps life

[kairos12]

7. It's a

COVID world after all.

[hatrack]

15. It's a world of fever, a world of chills

It's a world of trochars and lots of pills
There's a tube here for you, and I just got one too!
It's a COVID world for all

[Mossfern]

20. Nice!

good work and appropriate words

like it

[Sherman A1]

11. Stupid

I certainly will not be going, but then I wasn't anyway.

[ResistantAmerican17]

12. This is a test run for the super spreader events that will result

from opening schools... kids as lab rats. Paging reason and sanity.....

[Ahpook]

13. Found a livestream

Attendance is definitely low, but still quite a few showing up.

[gristy]

17. Watched him for a while - he's pretty good!

He's commenting on the weather and also live-responding to the people who are commenting on his stream.

[Takket]

14. here's something else you can watch.........

This video was made Thursday by a couple of bloggers/travel agents that live near Disney and book vacation packages for people...... Thursday was not a general admission day but a "annual passholder preview" day so the crowd is even smaller than normal (really no crowd at all). i post this just for curiosity's sake to see what a place designed to hold 10000+ people looks like when social distancing measures are put in place.

cast members are wearing masks and shields, ride queues were divided up with plexiglass and included "wait here" stickers on the ground, etc........... its an hour long so maybe skip around a bit if you don't have that much time lol but it is interesting to watch (and they keep the camera rolling on some of the rides if you want a virtual ride experience lol). It is surreal seeing walkways usually packed with people virtually empty....

[OrlandoDem2]

16. Here's my objective analysis.

Disney has a legendary reputation for attention to detail. They are extremely risk averse and I believe no expense was spared in keeping it clean and safe. There’s an argument to be made that if Disney can’t pull it off then no one can. I’ve also heard people say they feel safer at Universal after it opened a few weeks ago than anywhere else. If Universal can do it, then I know Disney can.

All the parks are wonderful places to stroll, picnic, and people watch. They are beautiful, and Disney goes the extra mile in cleanliness and maintaining their lovely green spaces and gardens. If you can safely stay away from others then go for it.

However, a virus doesn’t care about attention to detail or the history of Disney. And some people are just too stupid to stay away from others and properly social distance.

I do not know their policy for cleaning seats after each ride. But I wouldn’t want to sit on a sweaty roller coaster in July after someone else.

[spinbaby]

18. I have a friend who went there the other day

Disney World had some kind of preview event the other day and a Florida friend went to it. She came away saying that they were meticulous about safety and she felt far safer there than at her local Publix.

[spanone]

21. It's beyond that. It's sending a message that everything is okay....it's not okay.

IMHO

[Takket]

23. They aren't saying everything is okay, just that their precautions are sufficient for this time

sending the message that everything is okay means no masks, no social distancing, no cleaning, and no restrictions on park capacity. All of which they have instituted and more.

THAT BEING SAID.......... when they put all those plans in place it was a month ago before Florida EXPLODED with cases. I think what they've done would have been enough for the Florida of a month ago, but by the time they opened today, well, I don't think they should be open. But I mostly blame deSantis for betraying the people of Florida to appease drumpf more than I blame Disney.... everything Disney has done has been with the blessing of county and state officials who could, if they wanted to, order the parks to close.

[matt819]

19. Sheesh

And it’s not as if all of those who will become infected will stay in Orlando. They are going to spread the virus nationwide. America. Land of the free and it’s every man for himself.

[North Shore Chicago]

22. This is just

goofy.

[obamanut2012]

24. literally, safer than anyplace right now but your home

[no_hypocrisy]

25. Adults taking their CHILDREN to an EPICENTER FOR COVID, not Epcot Center.