Infectious Diseases Expert Sounds Alarm On Disney Vacations Amid Florida Vaccine Move
I was already boycotting Florida for their state government's participation in various Nazi-like activities, such as building a concentration camp, so this just adds to their reasons for me to stay away. It's too bad, because I've had some good times there at the beach, but there are other beaches.
They will sell cute Iron lungs with big black ears at the gift shops.
Don't go to Disney regardless. It's A tourist trap now. Too many people, too expensive, stupid add on charges to simple Attempt to get on rides with that stupid fast pass plus bullshit....honestly, from a long time Disney vacationer, it has jumped the shark. Just stay away. It's not worth the money or hassle.
A tourist trap NOW? Dude, it's been the very definition of a tourist trap since it opened in 1970.
It’s A tourist trap now.
1985 wants its comment back.
that stupid fast pass plus bullshit
I went to Disney for the first time as an adult, on a college trip. The school handled all the logistics, including buying the tickets. I didn't know about Fast Pass. Imagine what it was like to show up and find out not only that it's ubiquitous and free (other theme parks I've been to only sold them as an upcharge, so I never would've considered getting it even if I'd heard of it), but that it's also a thing you have to sign up for in advance.
I felt cheated. Yet, nobody seemed to care because everyone expected me to already know about it somehow. Excuse me for not being Disney-obsessed, for not living around Orlando, and/or for being too poor most of my life to afford going there. It seems the days of "buy ticket, go into park, get on ride" are long gone. I got there early, yet I went on a total of 3 rides that day: Space Mountain, the Haunted Mansion, and the frickin' Small World ride (which was the only one without a line. It was just as bad as advertised.) There was no time for anything else, because the lines were insanely long and I was apparently the only person in the park who didn't have some sort of Fast Pass.
That was over a decade ago. I wouldn't be surprised if it's gotten even worse since then.
Living in Orlando, we locals know to buy the cheaper passes with the blackout dates. Rather that look at the blackout dates as restrictions, we see them as valuable information - those are the days when you want to avoid the parks at all costs.
The best times to go are when the kids are in school, of course. If you aren't towing kids, you would be an absolute moron to go during the vacation seasons.
Best times:
It starts to get busy during Valentine's Day week, then the Daytona 500, the Daytona Bike Week, then Spring Break weeks across the country.
Summer is insane, through Labor Day. It's also brutally hot. Avoid at all costs.
If you go when it's busy, you'll spend most of your day waiting for hours in line on the hot sun. You might get on 4 or 5 rides, if you're lucky. But go in Early December, or May, and you'll do a dozen or more rides in a day.
Dont worry, at Universal, imagine your surprise when you get the fast pass and then get stuck in a (still smaller) line. That's when you see a group get walked past you and you find out they paid for the VIP ticket and they get to skip in front of you.
It is terribly crowded. And there isn't enough shade, or places to sit. Still, at least some of the rides are really well done, have air-conditioned lines, and are of decent length. I went to Knott's berry farm a month or two ago, and I'd say that was worse. Terrible food options with insane markups—like, at a cafeteria-style bbq place, a single beer costs $16.50. And we waited for over an hour in the sun for what felt like a 30-second ride (This site lists it at 1:02, but I'm skeptical).
Glad we went last year. Won’t be visiting Florida anytime soon.
It’d be really funny if Disney instated vaccination mandates for visiting their properties in Florida
That's not how humor works.
Many of their repeat customers live in Florida. They won't be vaccinated, and they will not bring proof of vaccination to Disney World. They will bring their shitty attitude, however. They're the only ones who are going to be stupid enough to visit Disney, so they will be the main customers Disney has to cater to.
The governor is also looking to pick fights with Disney over anything.
The tourism drops in Florida over the Summer have already been significant, and they're mainly MAGA nazi assholes. Disney will be the home of "patient zero" for many years to come as it spreads disease all over the World.
Many of their repeat customers live in Florida.
Don't those people get the cheap off-season date passes rather than the expensive crowded-date passes?
The governor is also looking to pick fights with Disney over anything.
Disney is also about the only entity in the state that can tell the governor to fuck off, which is also funny. And sad.
Locals also don't stay in the Disney hotels most likely. These locals are just way less revenue per visit than someone coming from the other side of the country, or another continent. The kinda people who would be for vaccine mandates.
All in all, this could go either way.
Not funny as in “ha ha”
They’re the only ones who are going to be stupid enough to visit Disney, so they will be the main customers Disney has to cater to.
Which would make it even funnier.
next step: fried bat on a stick.
The US are about to learn some harsh lessons, again, at great cost. This will shape a generation.
I can name a dozen times America has paid great costs for her mistakes, but I defy you to name one where we learned our lesson.
Well, at least some Americans learned their lesson from Vietnam.
To be honest, come on, I thought we had a few, up until 2016 or so.
It's not just the US. Planes travel all over the world. Immunocomprimised people everywhere will suffer for this.
Learn is such a strong word, maybe experience.
Hahaha, Republicans ruined disney even more. They only know how to kill the economy and ruin good things. They have no other skills besides human trafficking.
Undermining the health of your population is also how you lose even faster to China.
USA is devolving in every significant aspect of life quality. And this is already hitting the economy too.
USA is making itself irrelevant through immense stupidity one would have thought impossible.
Idiocracy manifest.
They've even begun to sell tablets to put in water, that have "electrolytes" now!
And allegedly they are very popular!!
Idiocracy is becoming steadily more accurate!!
Almost as if the leader of the country is an agent of a foreign hostile power.
And by almost we kind of mean exactly as if he is an agent for a hostile power, because there is nothing most of us can imagine Trump would do differently to undermine USA, allies, NATO, democracy and the west more than he is doing, if he was working exactly on that for Putin.
Yet Americans allow him to continue.
Polio cruise with princesses
That was my wife's first comment after hearing the news: definitely not going to Disneyworld, it's going to be a cesspit
The Malaria State
Leprosy was even creeping back to southern Florida a couple years ago.
Who the fuck can afford a Disney vacation right now anyway?
Elon Musk
30yo couples who both get 7500$/month and don't have children.
As long as they live in their car.
Here I am thinking, "Damn $7500/mo, I could gross that every month for the rest of my life for my partner and I, and we'd be more than comfortable." Then I realized it's still less than $100k/yr, and inflation is a bitch.
...I'm never going to be able to afford a house, will I?
Who are completely festooned in Disney regalia (clothing, bags, buttons, hats, etc). I was coerced into visiting SoCal and the amusement park ecosystem not long ago. The amount of money spent on Disney apparel is stupefying. I began attempting to spot people dressed normally of which there were few. The amount of money spent on Disney anything is insane. Though the same seemed true at Universal Studios. I do also remember trying to curb my thinking, "Let people enjoy things" and then being dismayed to have 40-yr old men in wizard robes pushing me aside to buy a HP wand. At least they serve alcohol at Universal, but Bruce was gone [sniff].
Three kids...never been to fucking Disney. I'm a survivor.
Interesting if Disney won't let you in without shoes. Seems almost like slavery /s.
"What did experts ever do for us?!!"
Everyone’s saying they won’t go to Florida anymore but when their neighbors travel, Florida will come to them.