I've also been to DTD in the evening. I went 2 weeks ago on a Wednesday at 5:30 and the lines weren't bad at all. The line for WOD only took a few minutes. Same with Marcelines, Dress Shop, and the Home store. Once inside the stores, they are low capacity, and have plenty of space to social distance.
We've been watching it quite closely - at first to decide what to do about our September trip, and now it's more of a morbid curiosity "did we make the right choice" situation. The numbers are still well above the thresholds, and I've heard OC has been having issues with people not wearing masks, which might explain why it isn't really coming down. I don't see how Newsom can possibly allow them to open when the schools aren't allowed to open unless they hit all the thresholds - even though I agree that you're likely safer at a Disney park than at school, the optics would be terrible, and I've worked in education long enough to know that it's all about public perception. For that reason, I don't see Disney parks opening before they hit the thresholds. Am I remembering correctly that things won't be allowed to open until the cases are below the thresholds for 14 days? In that case, the earliest we could expect DLR to open would be mid-August, and that's assuming OC can drop their positive rate by a lot in the next week.
Yep, perception is everything. Almost any time I hear a news organization talk about the Florida surge in cases they bring up the fact that WDW opened up.
Doesn't matter that the Orlando area is no where near the hot spot in FL or that no outbreaks have been linked to Disney's opening. I can only imagine the reporting if DLR opened right now with California leading the county in case numbers. Disney is in a no win situation and so are we.Correct. 14day trend needs to be < 100 per 100,000 to get considered off the watch list. Orange county: 0 Days under that metric. Trend line is improving, but given rate, won't get below 100 per 100,000 for probably another 2 weeks. then 2weeks to stay below that -- we're pushing an end Aug/labor day opening .
Thanks for the extra perspective. Sounds similar to how the beaches are in LA County that I have been to.
So does the county think there is protection under ADA? Hopefully OC knows better so that when DL opens people will be wearing masks. Also, please let that be soon! ºOº
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I understand how you're feeling!! Same boat. I think I will jusy wait it out and let them release the points. Sad I won't have that experience.I'm currently holding a reservation at the VGC for Labor Day. I'm really on the fence about keeping this reservation. I know there is no holding right now, so that's good, I just can't decide if I should throw in the towel. It's so frustrating and hard to navigate traveling with Covid-19
True. If you look at the website and go to the PCR tab; the #s tested over the past two weeks have dramatically declined. Orange typically tests 1.5-2x our county rate. They've been matching ours lately which is weird.
LA County has had a lag in data as well for the past few days for both cases and hospitalizations,
