Even if you got the cancellation insurance, would you be covered under these circumstances? Unless there is an outright travel ban or and advisory, I think not. We are booked for travel Feb 20-25. I’m thinking our dvc points go into holding, we lose our flight. We have cancellation insurance but I don’t think we are covered for this.
And a case in Japan where the person has not traveled to China.
All travel company stocks are down, oil companies, etc. etc. This will have wide-reaching effects that aren't necessarily predictable. Who knows, maybe people will stay home and buy Disney+? I don't think you're being crass, either. Although we don't have plans to go to WDW, I am planning to buy stocks. I'm not dancing on anyone's grave, either. We are all right in assessing what this means for our own families.
There's often a lot of confusion at the start of an epidemic, and the Chinese public health system is not nearly as sophisticated as ours. There is also huge pressure to maintain face for the government. These two things must lead global authorities (and us) to take absolutely everything they say with a grain of salt. For instance, they say they've isolated Wuhan. Well, there are flights in and out of there to other cities in China. The only cancelled flights are to/from other countries. Greater minds than mine have spent decades trying to figure out what's really going on over there. But the data in OTHER countries is starting to come in and that will help a lot.
Thanks for the link. Quite interesting!
The first article has nothing to do with what is going on.
We didn't say that it had anything to do with the corovavirus, in fact @Brianstl pointed out that it probably didn't. And the cases are similar in that there is a major ongoing international concern about undue influence and IP theft from Chinese nationals, of which the concerns surrounding Huawei are perhaps the highest-profile example.
How else would they tie the band to the person? Manual entry by checking IDs takes too long for those prime time queues. Until there is reason for it to change, not just fear, it won't.
First of all, is is a Fact that the U.S. now has confirmed cases within our borders... and I cannot think of a faster way to spread it widely in a single day than having thousands of people touch the same scanner after an infected person. (It is the exact reason Disney had to close the two parks in China). Some people would take advantage of not having to match their finger to the bands, but seriously, Disney cannot put collecting every last dime ahead of Public Safety.
You touch hundreds of seats, buckles, handrails etc in a daily trip to WDW. A finger scan is not going to make much difference. Wash your hands, don’t touch your face, or don’t go to WDW.
In the U.S., the flu is still a much bigger Public Safety Risk. Has been for years. Disney hasn't stopped the fingerprint scan for the flu, they aren't stopping it for this. Not at this stage. Besides, what about the hundreds of thousands of other things you will touch in the park? Eliminating the fingerprint would not be particularly effective given chairs, benches, buckles, ride seats, railings, gift shops, door handles, sinks and hundreds if not thousands of other things.
It's just one of those moments when you realize that nothing is really that clean. Certainly that's gross, but honestly that's what our immune systems are for. One should just be careful, wash your hands, etc. and use extra caution for those more susceptible.
