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Nick said:
Parents are gonna spend $60 at least at a cinema for a family of 4 so $20 is a helluva deal anyway.
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Many parents of 4 find much better values than paying full price for a Saturday night movie.
Matinees, Tuesday nights, smuggling in snacks, just getting a refillable popcorn to share, etc.
I think you highly underestimate the average parent’s ability to find a deal.
Us, for example? We go to a theater that is $3.50/kid and $4/adult for a matinee. $20 is way closer to average for us than $60.

Also, when you’re a parent, you often don’t sit the whole time for a kids movie to run it’s course at home unless it’s highly engaging (which most kids movies today are not). You might grab a phone, you might go throw in a load of laundry, etc. The theater really has no rival, IMO. Even with a nice theater setup.
 
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Great find. So how can they prevent that from happening? Bullhorns and distance between one another? Dropping it to smaller teams?

Can't they find a way to still work and maintain the proper controls? In reality, going to the grocery store/Costco is 300x worse than this.

Halting construction for these hourly guys is not good at all IMO. Construction is already the hardest hit industry as it relates to drug abuse and alcoholism.
 
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Andysol said:
Great find. So how can we prevent that from happening? Bullhorns and distance between one another? Dropping it to smaller teams?

Halting construction for these hourly guys is not good at all IMO. Construction is already the hardest hit industry as it relates to drugs and alcoholism.
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Meetings can happen in smaller groups or by text/video/facetime. Not sure what the guidance is on the 10/25 people "rules" Is it a 6 foot barrier? More to it that that? I agree they need to figure something out.
 
Andysol said:
Great find. So how can they prevent that from happening? Bullhorns and distance between one another? Dropping it to smaller teams?

Can't they find a way to still work and maintain the proper controls? In reality, going to the grocery store/Costco is 300x worse than this.

Halting construction for these hourly guys is not good at all IMO. Construction is already the hardest hit industry as it relates to drug abuse and alcoholism.
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I'm not saying it is, but is WDW halting it because they want to or are they halting because someone on a construction team may have the virus? If it's the latter then it's very understandable why they would stop, because then the whole team has been exposed.
 
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I'm not saying it is, but is WDW halting it because they want to or are they halting because someone on a construction team may have the virus? If it's the latter then it's very understandable why they would stop, because then the whole team has been exposed.
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Our local k-12 school system was one of the first in the country to shut down because 1 teacher got diagnosed.
 
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Andysol said:
Great find. So how can they prevent that from happening? Bullhorns and distance between one another? Dropping it to smaller teams?

Can't they find a way to still work and maintain the proper controls? In reality, going to the grocery store/Costco is 300x worse than this.

Halting construction for these hourly guys is not good at all IMO. Construction is already the hardest hit industry as it relates to drug abuse and alcoholism.
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What I can offer, based on my companies current situation, is that when no revenue is coming in, the only things to cut are capital and operating expenses. In order to do all this construction, they not only need contractors but their own security and safety folks to watch over the work. They will most likely work on the maintenance side to get things working properly on existing rides, but I totally understand why they are stopping capital work. It really sucks right now.
 
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so just had a random thought pop into my head, last time we had a park closure was for 9/11. With that brought a whole slew of changes to the parks and also general day life, primarily security screening, metal detectors, and the TSA.

Now with something like this, could we see some kind of general health monitoring at the entrance to the parks, airports, and other large gatherings?
 
MrRoamer said:
so just had a random thought pop into my head, last time we had a park closure was for 9/11. With that brought a whole slew of changes to the parks and also general day life, primarily security screening, metal detectors, and the TSA.

Now with something like this, could we see some kind of general health monitoring at the entrance to the parks, airports, and other large gatherings?
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I doubt it. Outside chance of someone taking your temperature (which already happens some international airports anyway), but this thing is too asymptomatic in too many people for it to really do anything
 
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MrRoamer said:
so just had a random thought pop into my head, last time we had a park closure was for 9/11. With that brought a whole slew of changes to the parks and also general day life, primarily security screening, metal detectors, and the TSA.

Now with something like this, could we see some kind of general health monitoring at the entrance to the parks, airports, and other large gatherings?
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Health monitoring, possibly. Likely sanitizer everywhere for awhile, easier ways to get thermometers, but honestly I think the biggest effect will be people not traveling or going outside/out as much as they used to for like a year. Its gonna be weird. I think things like Universal releasing their films directly to VOD shows a first step in another direction for movies. To me, that may end up being one of the biggest game changers in all this. I could see many theatre chains going out of business if they lose out on any summer months, they simply can't afford it. Plus people now more than ever have major incentives to stay inside
 
MrRoamer said:
so just had a random thought pop into my head, last time we had a park closure was for 9/11. With that brought a whole slew of changes to the parks and also general day life, primarily security screening, metal detectors, and the TSA.

Now with something like this, could we see some kind of general health monitoring at the entrance to the parks, airports, and other large gatherings?
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As someone that suffers from allergies, I would find it pretty discriminatory to prevent someone from entering based on if they were coughing or sneezing. Plus, they would lose a ton of business from other allergy sufferers.

If there are any long lasting effects for operations, it would likely just be that there would be more of an effort to keep things clean.
 
MrRoamer said:
so just had a random thought pop into my head, last time we had a park closure was for 9/11. With that brought a whole slew of changes to the parks and also general day life, primarily security screening, metal detectors, and the TSA.

Now with something like this, could we see some kind of general health monitoring at the entrance to the parks, airports, and other large gatherings?
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By the time the parks (or everything else) opens, there will be no need for it.
 
GhostHost85 said:
As someone that suffers from allergies, I would find it pretty discriminatory to prevent someone from entering based on if they were coughing or sneezing. Plus, they would lose a ton of business from other allergy sufferers.

If there are any long lasting effects for operations, it would likely just be that there would be more of an effort to keep things clean.
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Brian G. said:
By the time the parks (or everything else) opens, there will be no need for it.
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Not so sure about this . . . I mean, I have absolutely zero clue when things will start to reopen, but I feel pretty confident that when they do, there will still be an abundance of caution for a long time after. COVID-19 is 100% here to stay. There is no way to end this virus, just like there's no way to end the flu or the common cold or anything else. The point is getting the pandemic under control, and getting treatments/vaccines/whatever in place at hospitals and within our healthcare system at large so we can treat it, just like any other virus.

Let's say, in three months, the curve has been sufficiently flattened. (Being optimistic.) Things will start to reopen, but COVID-19 will still be active. There are going to be lots and lots and lots of extra precautions taken in all facets of life, not just at theme parks. If the country waited until this thing became as benign as your average flu, the economy would be completely doomed -- like, irrevocably doomed. It won't get to that point. Expect things to reopen, but also expect a new normal.
 
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