Both Disney World Orlando and Universal Studios Orlando are closing. Disney until April 1st. Universal for 2 weeks.

Right before this, got a text from a friend of a friend who works for Hilton on Disney property. This is a HUGE hotel, connected to a Waldorf. My guess is 1,000 rooms between the two properties. Occupancy was at 20%, and at this time of the year, it should 90%+. They were announcing layoffs already. Now that Disney is closing...

Edited to add link; https://www.yahoo.com/entertai...ernor-201455477.html

https://www.yahoo.com/entertai...e-end-231144928.html

Oh and I forgot, Disney Cruise Line is shutting down for two weeks also.

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Originally posted by holdem:
Both Disney World Orlando and Universal Studios Orlando are closing. Disney until April 1st. Universal for 2 weeks.

Link with details?

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Originally posted by WaterburyBob:

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Originally posted by r0gue:

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Originally posted by WaterburyBob:
As I posted (now, a good number of pages ago), our Health Network's head of infectious diseases says that asymptomatic people do not spread the virus.

Please don't take this as my doubting you. I hope you are right. Can you produce a link to a CDC or DoH study/finding? I am absolutely not being told that at our facility. Quite the opposite.

I can't provide a link. This was told to us in a Webex presentation my employer gave.

The research I have seen to date does not point to this being true, and that is the problem.

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Originally posted by italia:
Not sure if this has been posted.

YouTube Video: Joe Rogan Interview with Michael Osterholm, an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease epidemiology.

So what is he saying?

I HATE it when an expert is linked, yet no summary is give. What is his fuckin position?
I DON'T want to watch another corona virus video without a cliff notes caution.

I am truly sorry for any of you guys who will feel even an insignificant economical impact from this.

My wife's work will probably be impacted, short and long term, from this stupidity.

I honestly expect to get called in soon. Every other damn email from work is Batflu this or Batflu that. I just worked 22 out of the last 23 days/nights. I want my damned week off.

But I swear, every time I open the internet it's like someone has one-upped whatever the dubmest thing I saw the last time I looked was.

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:

You may be the one man in human history who's ever taught a cat to stop following him into the bathroom and demanding to be petted.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:

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Originally posted by snoris:
If anyone here is inclined toward digging into the science and putting what’s happening into perspective, here’s a link to a guy in England who is both a mathematician and epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
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This appears to be your second post of this.
Maybe you intended to edit the first post?

Nope, accidental double post. I've deleted the duplicate, thanks for catching it.

^^^^ Ah hahahahah!

oddball-- good one! One of the few laughs I've had about this situation. We'll just keep our eye on ol' Keef.

^^^^ I LOL'd for real.

I finally understand the term: March Madness...

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Originally posted by holdem:
Both Disney World Orlando and Universal Studios Orlando are closing. Disney until April 1st. Universal for 2 weeks.

Yup. Looks like we are going to be forced to cancel our Disney World trip. It's going to save me money, but the amount of money businesses are losing over this I can't imagine. For instance, the vrbo we had booked.

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Originally posted by mark_a:
I finally understand the term: March Madness...

Ain’t that the truth. Was just thinking that.

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Originally posted by jljones:
Went to the Dollar Store because I needed pasta. Dude in line had three carts of TP. Stuffed full and nearly falling out.

Almost everyone in line had multiple packs of TP.

I don’t get it.

I don't understand the massive amounts of toilet paper either...….they buy tons of toilet paper, yet aren't stocking up on food...….

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Originally posted by amals:
We'll just keep our eye on ol' Keef.

Also gotta keep one eye on Ruthie dear; if she goes, oh fuck, all bets are off.

I'm happy to report that, although Sunday services are cancelled at the Beechland Baptist Church in Louisville, the Yard Sale is still on for Friday and Saturday. Link

I just happened to come across the above searching for a master list of cancellations.

On a more serious note, it's funny that all the cancellations start and stop at different times.

I'm getting on a plane Sat. It will be interesting to see how full it is. Normally I would expect a full flight. Hoping lots of people don't want to fly/travel.

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Originally posted by comet24:
I'm getting on a plane Sat. It will be interesting to see how full it is. Normally I would expect a full flight. Hoping lots of people don't want to fly/travel.

My sister flew out of LAX the other night on a 8pm flight, she took a picture of the entire hallway/fairway of her terminal, there were 3 people there.

They called me crazy for my idea of packing commercial airline passengers each into their own indivual tube for transport, but who's crazy now, huh? That's right- everyone