BabybetterDisney
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 14, 2018
The coronavirus has a fatality rate of something between 0.5% to 3.4%, and it attacks not just the lungs but a vast array of body organs and systems from head to toe, causing all kinds of problems. It is capable of asymptomatic transmission, making it extremely infectious and most of the world’s population will catch it in time, within a year.
Most people will come out of the coronavirus unharmed, suffering little or not at all. So why not go to Disney World then?
1. If you have caught it and survived, you may catch it again, especially as the virus mutates, and get hit harder the second time around and die.
2. By avoiding crowded places such as Disney World, you may be able to reduce your infectious dose when you catch it, and thereby reduce the severity of your symptoms. That is, if you catch just 5 viruses, your body might be able to fight it off easily, whereas if you catch 5 million, you will be dead as a doorknob, even though you are a perfectly young, healthy person.
3. If you hide from the virus long enough, by the time you catch it, the doctors might know more about how to handle the disease and give you more informed care, having made their mistakes on others who got sick before you. For example, the death rate for ventilator usage in New York is 80%, and for old people over age 65, 97%, according to the New York Times. That made doctors less interested in using ventilators for covid. They are also trying out a series of drugs, so if you can hold out long enough, you can pick the medicine that actually works, or at least avoid being a guinea pig for all the non-working ones. Also, a vaccine may show up. It's like a game of dodge ball: you stay back, you get hit last.
4. If you get deathly sick in Disney World and end up in the hospital, chances are that your entire family will be sick also, being that you are stuck in a hotel room during vacation in close proximity of each other, and covid is really infectious. Then you will be sick without family support. If you get sick at home, at least friends and family can help, and you have all your home supplies.
5. Disney World (or Disneyland) is the happiest place on earth. It’s not worth going when there is a plague hanging over your head during the super expensive vacation, when there is a big damper on everybody‘s happiness level. Imagine seeing everybody in Disney World wearing masks, as if Disney World has turned into one giant emergency room. Let's for a few years and let this thing die down.
6. If a bad second wave hits during your trip (like it did during the Spanish flu, when young people started dropping dead), the flights might get cancelled and you can’t get home.
7. When Disney World reopens, there will be a bunch of horrible adjustments to make life miserable: temperature checks, social distancing, cancelled parades and fireworks and events, wearing masks in 95 degree heat and humidity, monrail not running. So you run from Epcot to DHS (we do that all the time) and get your temperature up, and they won’t let you in. Or you’ve been waiting in line outside MK in the hot sun for half an hour and your forehead is burning. Or, maybe your temperature is perfect, but MK is already 1/4 full and that’s all they allow to get in for the day, and you are out of luck. Or they are not opening Epcot, so you have nothing to eat.
8. If you catch covid in Disney World and go back, your home town will not be happy with you. “Look at those stupid jerks, traveling during a pandemic and bringing the virus back to us!” People go to Disney World from all over, so it will poke a big hole in the herd immunity plan. As the pandemic run out, Disney World will be the last place in the world still spreading the virus.
9. Let’s wait and see what all is going to happen with the virus and with the society. Will the virus have a second wave? A third? Will people have immunity after catching it, or will they catch it again and again, getting sicker each time? Will the flights be cancelled if things get bad? And what about the economy? Will the money run out because stocks are flattened, jobs are gone, food prices increase? Maybe we should save the Disney World money for covid emergency fund, not just for ourselves, but also for relatives and friends who might get hit hard with loss of income or increased responsibilities.
10. You might ask, but what if covid blows over a lot sooner? But here’s the thing: you don’t know when it might come back. Disney World trips are planned months in advance, and by the time you go, something unpleasant might be rearing up its head, and there‘s a good chance of that happening. Nobody knows about this virus, what it will do in months or years to come.
I really want to go back to Disney World. I want to check out the Skyliner. I want to walk the new walking path from the Grand Floridian to MK. I want to sit on the beach at CBR at midnight and read Harry Potter. I just bought a very small, convenient pop up tent that I want to try out for when it rains. I want to watch DS4 play on the splash pad at CBR -- it was his favorite. I want to check out Fort Wilderness and rent a golf cart there. I want to walk from Fort Wilderness to Wilderness lodge - they have a walking path there that I didn’t know about. I want to stay at AKL so that we can eat breakfast at Boma again, we loved it last year.
I am going to skip this year and next year, and go back to Disney World in 2022 or later, if everything has cooled off for at least a year. Until then, I will just stay home and be sad.
Most people will come out of the coronavirus unharmed, suffering little or not at all. So why not go to Disney World then?
1. If you have caught it and survived, you may catch it again, especially as the virus mutates, and get hit harder the second time around and die.
2. By avoiding crowded places such as Disney World, you may be able to reduce your infectious dose when you catch it, and thereby reduce the severity of your symptoms. That is, if you catch just 5 viruses, your body might be able to fight it off easily, whereas if you catch 5 million, you will be dead as a doorknob, even though you are a perfectly young, healthy person.
3. If you hide from the virus long enough, by the time you catch it, the doctors might know more about how to handle the disease and give you more informed care, having made their mistakes on others who got sick before you. For example, the death rate for ventilator usage in New York is 80%, and for old people over age 65, 97%, according to the New York Times. That made doctors less interested in using ventilators for covid. They are also trying out a series of drugs, so if you can hold out long enough, you can pick the medicine that actually works, or at least avoid being a guinea pig for all the non-working ones. Also, a vaccine may show up. It's like a game of dodge ball: you stay back, you get hit last.
4. If you get deathly sick in Disney World and end up in the hospital, chances are that your entire family will be sick also, being that you are stuck in a hotel room during vacation in close proximity of each other, and covid is really infectious. Then you will be sick without family support. If you get sick at home, at least friends and family can help, and you have all your home supplies.
5. Disney World (or Disneyland) is the happiest place on earth. It’s not worth going when there is a plague hanging over your head during the super expensive vacation, when there is a big damper on everybody‘s happiness level. Imagine seeing everybody in Disney World wearing masks, as if Disney World has turned into one giant emergency room. Let's for a few years and let this thing die down.
6. If a bad second wave hits during your trip (like it did during the Spanish flu, when young people started dropping dead), the flights might get cancelled and you can’t get home.
7. When Disney World reopens, there will be a bunch of horrible adjustments to make life miserable: temperature checks, social distancing, cancelled parades and fireworks and events, wearing masks in 95 degree heat and humidity, monrail not running. So you run from Epcot to DHS (we do that all the time) and get your temperature up, and they won’t let you in. Or you’ve been waiting in line outside MK in the hot sun for half an hour and your forehead is burning. Or, maybe your temperature is perfect, but MK is already 1/4 full and that’s all they allow to get in for the day, and you are out of luck. Or they are not opening Epcot, so you have nothing to eat.
8. If you catch covid in Disney World and go back, your home town will not be happy with you. “Look at those stupid jerks, traveling during a pandemic and bringing the virus back to us!” People go to Disney World from all over, so it will poke a big hole in the herd immunity plan. As the pandemic run out, Disney World will be the last place in the world still spreading the virus.
9. Let’s wait and see what all is going to happen with the virus and with the society. Will the virus have a second wave? A third? Will people have immunity after catching it, or will they catch it again and again, getting sicker each time? Will the flights be cancelled if things get bad? And what about the economy? Will the money run out because stocks are flattened, jobs are gone, food prices increase? Maybe we should save the Disney World money for covid emergency fund, not just for ourselves, but also for relatives and friends who might get hit hard with loss of income or increased responsibilities.
10. You might ask, but what if covid blows over a lot sooner? But here’s the thing: you don’t know when it might come back. Disney World trips are planned months in advance, and by the time you go, something unpleasant might be rearing up its head, and there‘s a good chance of that happening. Nobody knows about this virus, what it will do in months or years to come.
I really want to go back to Disney World. I want to check out the Skyliner. I want to walk the new walking path from the Grand Floridian to MK. I want to sit on the beach at CBR at midnight and read Harry Potter. I just bought a very small, convenient pop up tent that I want to try out for when it rains. I want to watch DS4 play on the splash pad at CBR -- it was his favorite. I want to check out Fort Wilderness and rent a golf cart there. I want to walk from Fort Wilderness to Wilderness lodge - they have a walking path there that I didn’t know about. I want to stay at AKL so that we can eat breakfast at Boma again, we loved it last year.
I am going to skip this year and next year, and go back to Disney World in 2022 or later, if everything has cooled off for at least a year. Until then, I will just stay home and be sad.
Cashing out!
