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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,018 posts)
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 08:08 PM Jul 2020

Disney World Re-Opens with Short Lines and Scared Staff, as Florida COVID-19 Cases Spike

Take a gander at any of the public social media groups for enthusiasts of Orlando, Florida’s Walt Disney World and you’ll find a common refrain: the theme park, which re-opened on Friday amid a COVID-19 catastrophe, has super-short lines for all its top roller coasters right now.

Disney World closed in mid-March, when COVID-19 cases began sweeping the country. Then on Friday, the same day Florida reported its largest single-day increase in the virus and the first day the U.S. reported more than 70,000 cases, Disney World re-opened its gates.

The re-opening also comes one day after unionized Disney staff lobbied, unsuccessfully for COVID-19 testing. The result, say Disney megafans who visited on re-opening day, is a weirdly empty park.

Distanced Disney rules, some fans say.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/disney-world-re-opens-with-short-lines-and-scared-staff-as-florida-covid-19-cases-spike/ar-BB16CDVj?li=BBnb7Kz

It appears most people aren't as stupid as Trump and the GOP make them out to be.

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Disney World Re-Opens with Short Lines and Scared Staff, as Florida COVID-19 Cases Spike (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2020 OP
I went to an empty Disney World once Sedona Jul 2020 #1
Close friend of mine has a daughter working there rurallib Jul 2020 #2

Sedona

(3,769 posts)
1. I went to an empty Disney World once
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 08:11 PM
Jul 2020

in the '80's. Superbowl Sunday in the pouring rain.

Two 5 year olds...no lines.

Best time ever

rurallib

(62,420 posts)
2. Close friend of mine has a daughter working there
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 08:24 PM
Jul 2020

Talked to him about her last week. He is of course worried.

Been thinking about her all day.

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