In case anyone wasn't yet aware, the Orange County guidelines working group is doing a really good job of illustrating that good business skills don't necessarily translate into good policy skills.
After all the reporting on co-chair Chuck Whittall's first draft of guidelines yesterday, at the full task force meeting in the afternoon the WDW representative, Thomas Mazloum, clarified the following:
"This morning's productive session produced a document by our chairman that was simply intended to be a starting block for conversation and did not constitute the initial recommendation by the task force or the county for the opening of Walt Disney World. And the only reason I wanted to bring this up is it appears unintentionally some media outlets misunderstood that and interpreted that as the guidelines for the reopening of Walt Disney World. So thank you for giving me the opportunity to correct this statement that this was simply a starting block for conversation and did not constitute the recommendations by either the task force or the county for the opening of Walt Disney World."
So I don't think Disney was too impressed with those draft guidelines.
So then, as has been reported above, at this morning's meeting of the working group co-chair Chuck Whittall and Mayor Demings decided that instead, large theme parks and other sports/entertainment venues should simply decide their own reopening procedures because they know more about keeping their guests and employees safe than the committee does. At the same time, some members just wanted to talk about reopening dates (which are not a primary goal of the working group), while most remained insistent that mandating temperature checks for customers is not feasible for businesses despite the doctors in the group recommending them. Also, Chuck Whittall was continuing to try to force forward his piecemeal guidelines that are separated by industry, while the WDW rep (Thomas Mazloum) suggested that it might make more sense to make phase recommendations based on what safety measures are needed in each phase rather than arbitrary capacity limits, but it seemed that only person responsive to that was the mayor's chief of staff (who isn't a member of the committee).