at least in Asia they knew better. they covered up. distance themselves. they wore masks
It’s cultural for most of the countries there. And it’s almost always been about the courtesy of not spreading vs not contracting.
So to think Americans are going to pick up on a culturally
Asian thing? Hah
Though I’ve been pretty pleased with what I’ve seen in the few times I’ve ventured in my community. I don’t understand why some employees don’t. And I’d say roughly 70% have masks.
It needs to get to the point where you’re essentially
shaming people into wearing a mask. When 95% of the people have one, and you don’t, you should feel awkward and like you don’t fit in. My fear is it will start to go the other way, where 95% of people wont be wearing it. Though that isn’t the case yet where I’m at, luckily. Also; anecdotally; young people seem to wear them at a slightly higher percentage with very old (what are they doing out?!?) behind them. Boomers seem to wear the least, but I’d still say the majority do.
in here in USA as soon as the beaches opened d up they filled up and no one cared about masks. some beaches have had to close again now because people were shoulder to shoulder.
No way I’m wearing a mask on a beach. If I went to a beach that was crowded to the point it would require a mask, I just wouldn’t go. It’d be miserable.
something interesting that Grace Randolph said on youtube is that in her opinion, making kids keep their masks on would be really hard, and i kind of agree.
the FL heat wluld make it hard to breathe in the parks and kids would have a hard time dealing with them. specially little ones, and i see her point. also how wpuld the parks know that people will keep them on? how to enforce the mask when guests are inside?
kids would be really hard to deal with and the masks.
The 3 separate studies and Sweden’s data on young children (<12-14) that has come out the past 2-3 weeks has been fascinating.
TLDR; there are very low odds kids can transfer it to each other or to adults. The vast majority of children who have gotten COVID have
received it
from adults, not the other way around.
Hindsight all but shows we could have kept elementary and middle schools open without almost any increased risk of infection.
This, of course, would’ve reduced the stress of the health care workers or just general citizens (and especially impoverished kids). Any change creates stressors, so that constant would have been nice. Of course, it’s too late now to reopen (though Trump’s thought to reopen didn’t surprise me. And it would surprise me if he tried to push for it. Any opportunity to piss off half the country and galvanize the other half, he’ll usually take).
But... we did the best with the information we had at the time, as did the rest of the world. Had a certain country not been covering up data for months, maybe we would’ve had more information and schools would’ve stayed open.
Yes- all of that was “General COVID” territory. And I apologize. But I said all that for this:
Kids do not possess the same level of risk or spread of transmission as adults. What (all) of our original thoughts were was “kids are disease spreaders”- and that always been the case. Except this weird ass one named COVID where it’s opposite and seemingly makes no sense.
So, maybe kids 12 and under don’t have to wear masks at all. The argument could be made that you having to help adjust your child’s contaminated mask (where they’ve touched everything and then their mask) is more of a risk then them simply not wearing one.
Like they all think its going to have no crowds and are bored out of their minds
It'll make the Post-SWGE crowds seem gigantic from a pure numbers standpoint, i'd imagine.
This does sound very appealing. Even with masks, no? Which Is why I agree with @brian that we’ll see an initial surge. But I think the majority of the rest of the country will look at them like they’re psychopaths and it’ll die off very quickly.
If Six Flags follows through opening up in Mid May, that will give us a heads up. I’m not sure if there’s a social demographic change of who goes to Disneyland or who goes to magic mountain. But in Arlington (Tarrant County)- it’s primarily what most would describe as “blue collar”. I guess I’d call it the NASCAR and WWE crowd? Not that there’s anything wrong with that; but in my experience, they are much less likely to worry about things and would be more willing to go with the typical WDW traveler who is typically more sensitive.
I don’t know how to describe it without someone getting their panties in a twist, so maybe that proves my point about the sensitivity... lol.
Think of Six Flags as the guy who works on your AC and WDW as your barista. Obviously there’s tons of crossover with each, but my point is- if the crowds don’t show up at six flags mid March, then disney is Fd.
I'm sure Phil Holmes was one of the higher paid VPs due to his long tenure and he's likely being
highly encouraged to leave in order to save the company money.
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Why do I feel this is the first of many dominos.
Do you think some of the older lead CMs in charge of lands who have been there 20-30 years are gonna “retire” also?
Once all the parks are back open and the DCL is sailing again the stock will likely bounce back. Right now with the Parks closed, they're taking a huge hit.
I agree. And even if not at capacity, just being “open” is good for optics. Especially with outside investors.
Walking around our neighborhood in South Florida yesterday at 7pm while wearing masks, the heat became too much after 30 minutes. Having facial hair definitely makes it worse as well, made it even harder to breathe comfortable under a mask.
Just curious- any reason why you’re wearing it while walking outside? Or were you experimenting.
Magic Mountain said that masks would be required when they reopen. But the 2 six flags in Texas? Hah. People are going to die of heat stroke in the park if masks are required. I see no way possible there’s no incubator effect at these parks without reducing attendance to some unrealistic number (10%?). We’ll see...
