Gleeful and fixated... oh, well. If anyone else will be at DLR this weekend, we'll see you there!
Exactly. But the media isn't covering the flu like they are Coronavirus. The general public thinks it's the plague. It's not...not even close.
Not to be argumentative, but I'm pretty sure shutting down the park in China did zilch to slow down the spread of Coronavirus. It spreads like the flu. And quite honestly, experts are starting to say they really don't have a handle on how it even spreads because people are getting diagnosed that had no contact with anyone else who was diagnosed. They are thinking it could have been spreading for weeks in Washington State, but people were asymptomatic. Color me skeptical that shutting down a theme park is going to slow down the spread of a virus.
True, but experts are also saying the reported numbers of positive Coronavirus tests is extremely lower than the actual number of people with it. That is because so many people have it and are asymptomatic. So that 2-3% death rate would actually go way down into the area of less than 1% if we knew the exact number of people that have the virus. There are thousands of people walking around right now with Coronavirus and have no idea. We have a pretty accurate number on the deaths, but the inaccurate number of those infected is low which causes the death rate to be higher than it really is.
No, it doesn't. Its a disproportionate reaction. This is not the zombie apocalypse. It's a respiratory virus that causes mild flu/ cold symptoms in the vast majority of those infected. We don't close everything for flu season every year. The parks didn't close for the H1N1 outbreak. it makes ZERO sense and would do little to stop the spread of infection.
This! Its March which is the start of spring allergy season even in Colorado where its winter til June. I regularly suffer from respiratory issues upto and including pretty fierce bronchitis. Since it is not generally contagious I get meds for the cough and antibiotics of the crud in my lungs gets too bad but I keep living life. It is unreasonable to expect people to self quarantine for every little sniffle and cough that could easily be something else unless they are getting tested and proven to have COVID19. Because of that the asymptomatic carriers are going to be a huge factor. That's how it has spread so rapidly and probably how it went into the nursing home in Washington State. Eventually we will arrive at viewing this like influenza-granted it seems to have a higher fatality rate-but there is also huge underreporting. In time things will normalize. The OP of this thread seems to have some issues with obsessiveness and buying into conspiracy since most of his ranting is based on one highly inaccurate model and a genuine desire to see people freak out. The fact that the majority of us refuse to do that seems to annoy him.
IF you read the article, it says that this is a potential idea. Nothing is set in stone and to be honest with you I don't think it will happen. Do you feel that Universal and the other theme parks should close as well? Just checking because you have only mentioned WDW andDL.
Not that it’s the same level, but Dollywood is still advertising its Festival of Nations March 14-April 20. No plans to close.
Just curious, but did you read the article...or even the headline? Discouraging is not the same as closing or shutting down. The US can absolutely "discourage" citizens from taking cruises. And the US could even "discourage" citizens from going to WDW if the virus continues to spread (which it will). But discouraging people not to go is not the same as WDW being forced to close, which has been your claim/prediction throughout this thread. If you don't want to go to WDW, don't go. Pretty simple.
