The doors to Disney will be back open soon. Two theme parks, Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom, are set to reopen Saturday for the first time since coronavirus-related closures in March. The resort’s two other theme parks, Epcot and Hollywood Studios, are opening four days later.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was asked Monday during a news conference in The Villages, one of Florida’s largest retirement communities, about the safety of reopening theme parks amid the spike in cases in the Sunshine State.
DeSantis said he was not concerned about the increasing positivity rate in Florida and theme parks welcoming guests again.
“Disney, I have no doubt is going to be a safe environment…”
(cont. CBS Miami)
Ron Pissbaby DeSantis said Disney is going to be a safe environment.
One. DeSantis wants to be Trump.
Gov. Ron DeSantis is a Trump acolyte who sees himself as a mini-Cheetolini in training. Our Dear Leader downplays coronavirus, so DeSantis downplays coronavirus. President Velveeta cuts funding for coronavirus relief, so Governor Pissbaby cuts funding for coronavirus relief. They’re both liars and they both lie to their supporters about the rapidly unfolding disaster we have on our hands.
[DeSantis]has wiped out funding for coronavirus treatment in prisons and for online learning services, while insisting schools will reopen in the fall. And he is downplaying the spike in cases in his state, saying that those contracting the virus are younger.
“There’s no need to be fearful,” DeSantis said Monday.
(cont. CNN)
Two. Every metric in Florida is getting worse.
A record high percentage of Floridians tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday.
In NYC, the percentage is hovering around 1% and we can’t even sit in McDonald’s and eat chicken nuggets. Florida is opening Disney and 16% of their tests come back positive. Where in that number does it look safe to open theme parks?
Three. Even Texas has a more sensible response.
Texas and Florida, as the most populous states under Republican governorship, are frequently in a race to see who can be the absolute worst. Florida is definitely winning this race currently. While DeSantis has decided to open Disney and cut funding for online courses because he wants to send kids back to Corona Classrooms in September, Texas’s governor at least has the common sense to admit that COVID-19 is a problem and we’re stuck with it for a very long time.
In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott — who had previously blocked local governments from requiring masks, and had been among the first to reopen businesses — last week reversed himself and issued a mandate requiring masks in most of the state. The move came after he’d shut down all bars, limited restaurants to 50% capacity and halted elective surgeries in coronavirus hot-spots. In a video, he acknowledged what he said was “a stark reality: Covid-19 is not going away. In fact, it’s getting worse.”
(cont. CNN)
Four. The people who are going to Disney are not going to be careful.
I’m sitting here aghast at the thought of thousands of strangers wandering around a theme park. I would never go, because I take this pandemic seriously. There will be nobody like me there, social distancing, washing my hands constantly, wearing a mask everywhere, and shaming anybody I see being lax.
The people who will be there either think this is a hoax or think it’s not as bad as (some) government officials make it out to be. Disney can say as often as anyone will listen that they will have temperature checks and mask requirements, but Costco has mask requirements and their customers in Florida just about pop a vein when you tell them to put it on.
I don’t wanna say you deserve what you get if you go to Disney during a pandemic, because children don’t have a choice and they’re beholden to the idiocy of their parents. But it’s going to be really hard to have sympathy for people who end up on a respirator because they decided some mouse ears and an overpriced funnel cake were worth risking a virus that is quite literally running rampant in the area.
Maybe they think the Kingdom really is Magic but from where I’m sitting…
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