'Tragic Kingdom': Twitter users share photos and reports from re-opened Disney World

[soothsayer]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/tragic-kingdom-twitter-users-share-photos-and-reports-from-re-opened-disney-world/

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Walt Disney World Resort held the grand opening of it’s Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom resorts in Florida on Saturday despite the coronavirus pandemic.

“With Florida’s recent surge in Covid-19 infections, some have questioned whether the park should have postponed opening day. But on Saturday morning, thousands of fans walked through the gate to be among the first to reenter the Magic Kingdom,” CNN reported Saturday.

[Nevilledog]

1. That's fucked up.

[LisaL]

2. What the **** are all these people thinking?

Why do they have to go there in the middle of the pandemic?

[Nevilledog]

3. I see no evidence of thinking going on.

[RainCaster]

7. Of course not - this is Florida

Those GOP morons are still proud of voting for DFT.

[Tipperary]

19. Yeah, everyone there is from Florida. Got it.

[sarisataka]

4. People tweeting about lack of cleaning and closely packed lines...

yet they chose to go on the reopening day.

[GoCubsGo]

21. And, they paid a ridiculous amount of money to be able to subject themselves to that.

$100-130 apiece. Good grief.

[madaboutharry]

5. These photos are horrendous.

These people need their heads examined.

Disney opening now is a threat to public health. Another example of how $$$$ is the root of all evil.

[raccoon]

23. The LOVE of money is the root of all evil. Nt

[dustyscamp]

6. Some of these people will be voting for Kanye

[denem]

8. Greed

Greed and grudges.

[Freethinker65]

9. Disney looks as awful as I remember it when I visited decades ago

Never again.

I never understood the appeal.

[Dream Girl]

15. Me neither, The world is so big and wonderful to waste time on that shit... see my ost below.

[csziggy]

27. I liked that area better when it was scrub covered cow pastures and orange groves

I grew up less than two hours away from Disney World and remember riding on I-4 with my family in 1965 when we saw thesign announcing "the future location of Walt Disney World!" Out in a neglected cow pasture covered with palmettos and scrub weeds, with a water table less than a foot above the surface.

I've never been to Disney and plan to never go. My brother in law worked there for twenty years and offered free passes - my husband accepted, I refused. I can only think of the number of endangered Florida scrub jays and gopher tortoises that died so they could create a fully artificial environment.

Although Disney and the other theme parks provide a living for many people, most work at minimum wage or not much above that. I would not be at all sad to see all those places shut down.

[Dem2theMax]

10. It's heartbreaking to think that when these people get sick,

medical personnel who have absolutely no choice, will have to treat them, thereby putting their own lives in danger.

These idiots had a choice. They could have stayed home, and not put the lives of others on the line. Because we all know darned well, a lot of them will end up sick with Covid-19.

[LeftInTX]

11. You wouldn't catch me there in the summer, much less during a pandemic

While also trying to breath with a mask.

Just stay home

[ecstatic]

12. Leadership starts at the top. We have a moron in chief holding packed rallies,

which sends the message that ANYTHING goes.

[Dream Girl]

13. I never got what people find appealing about Disney.

I always found it fake, commercial and dumb. I never even took my son to Disneyland when he was younger. People would act like it’s an essential part of children. He never got to go until a friends parent took pity on him and took him alike on their vacation.He did’t get What was so great about it. Of course by then he was 10 or 11 and has visited Jamaica, England, Ecuador, Ireland, Australia, Hawaii, and Mexico (multiple times). He was not impressed and never felt like he missed out. We weren’t rich but we always, but always wanted him to see the world and have cool, real experiences.

[Tracer]

26. While visiting my mother in Pompano Beach many years ago,

my then 10 year old daughter begged and pleaded with me to go to Disneyland (or World, or whatever it is). I gave in.

It took 4 hours to drive to Orlando and the temperature was around 45 and it was cold and windy at the park.

The first thing we had to do was buy overly expensive sweatshirts just to keep from freezing. Then, as I looked around, all I could see was STORES! Huh? I thought there would be attractions, not a bunch of tacky stores. So naive.

There was no place to eat that I could afford (after paying the exorbitant entry fee) and the only "ride" we went on was that "mountain" thing -- after waiting, shivering, in line for over an hour.

Then another 4 hour drive back. Such fun!!

[BigmanPigman]

14. If any of these people get Covid I will NOT have an ounce of sympathy.

Their choice! I feel sorry for the people who they will infect. This is criminal on Disney's part and suicidal on the attendees' part.

40% of those with Covid are asymptomatic!

[rockfordfile]

17. No kidding.

[Upthevibe]

16. No words....n/t

[marybourg]

18. Is there anyone under 35 there?

I thought it was supposed to be for kids. I can’t imagine why, in a country as beautiful as the U.S., with our magnificent national parks, anyone over age 5 would rather go to a crass, commercial, juvenile phony park than one of our real ones. But there they are, and not a kiddie in sight.

[Nay]

20. You'd be shocked. I know a family of 4 that goes to Disneyland FOUR times a year.

Some people just love the place. I took my kid once, when he was 4, and that was a long time ago. Once was plenty, and that was way before all the crazy security stuff started after 9/11. Now, I understand, you can't even take a wallet in. Everything goes in a locker. Crazy-making.

[mercuryblues]

22. Not one of those people posting and complaining

stepped out of line, got back in their car and left.

[soothsayer]

25. One did

[KY_EnviroGuy]

24. Someone posted this in the comments...

This creates a hazard not only at Walt Disney World Resort but also for the entire Orlando area......

[jeffreyi]

28. Not to be the spelling police

But "its" not "it's "

[peggysue2]

29. This is just nuts!

The virus is surging in Florida and you open the gates to a damn amusement park? And then, in addition to native Floridians, the out-of-staters return home and spread the infection elsewhere.

Nuts!