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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLets go to Disney World, YIPPEE!
Disney World in Florida is opening, right in the middle of a raging pandemic. Maybe they should offer discounts to Trump voters.
Just think, people from states across the country will fly to Disney World with their kids. Return home and possibly bring the virus with them.
MADNESS!
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Lets go to Disney World, YIPPEE! (Original Post)
shockey80
Jul 2020
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'Silent Screams': Will U.S. Amusement Parks Ban Screaming On Roller Coasters?
NurseJackie
Jul 2020
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NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)1. 'Silent Screams': Will U.S. Amusement Parks Ban Screaming On Roller Coasters?
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/09/889502172/silent-screams-will-u-s-amusement-parks-ban-screaming-on-roller-coasters
Japanese amusement parks have banned screaming on roller coasters in an attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus. NPR asks U.S. amusement parks whether they will impose the same rules.
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: What does summer sound like?
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Well, in a usual year, it sounds like this.
KELLY: Screams of joy as the brave among us hurdle down the tracks of a roller coaster.
CHANG: But that's so 2019. This year, during the summer of COVID-19, amusement parks in Japan have banned screaming on rides. What you get instead is this.
KELLY: This is sound from a video shot at Fuji-Q Highland in Japan. It opens with a title card that says, a new style of screaming. Then we see two very sober, mask-wearing men - park execs - alone on a roller coaster. One wears a jacket and tie. The other one's wearing a white short-sleeve shirt and a bow tie. These guys - they are rule-followers.
(SOUNDBITE OF ROLLER COASTER CAR CLACKING)
CHANG: Not a whisper from them. And at the end of the video, another title card - scream inside your heart.
KELLY: Because if you scream inside your heart, you're keeping your scream and any virus particles to yourself. The question is, would any U.S. amusement park impose the same rule?
NICK PARADISE: It is an interesting approach. I don't know how effective it would be, you know, here.
KELLY: Nick Paradise is with Pittsburgh's Kennywood amusement park. That park is scheduled to reopen for season pass holders tomorrow. Paradise thinks social distancing and other rules will be enough to keep people safe on the park's eight roller coasters.
PARADISE: Asking people to not scream is a little too much, at least right now. I think kind of crawl, walk, run. We'll be very satisfied and thankful for people following the recommendations to wear the face mask.
CHANG: Those masks will have to be worn everywhere except the water rides.
PARADISE: And we are also going to be limiting capacity and practicing social distancing on the coasters.
CHANG: Like a lot of other parks in the country, Kennywood opened months later than usual. Disney World reopens this week, but Disneyland in California is waiting until it gets a, quote, "better understanding" of state rules.
KELLY: Dollywood in Tennessee - it's now open. The Six Flags chain is reopening on a state-by-state basis.
CHANG: By the time our favorite theme parks are safely back online, we may be out of practice when it comes to handling steep drops and corkscrew loops.
KELLY: But one thing we will have plenty of practice with, this being 2020, is screaming inside our hearts.
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Well, in a usual year, it sounds like this.
KELLY: Screams of joy as the brave among us hurdle down the tracks of a roller coaster.
CHANG: But that's so 2019. This year, during the summer of COVID-19, amusement parks in Japan have banned screaming on rides. What you get instead is this.
KELLY: This is sound from a video shot at Fuji-Q Highland in Japan. It opens with a title card that says, a new style of screaming. Then we see two very sober, mask-wearing men - park execs - alone on a roller coaster. One wears a jacket and tie. The other one's wearing a white short-sleeve shirt and a bow tie. These guys - they are rule-followers.
(SOUNDBITE OF ROLLER COASTER CAR CLACKING)
CHANG: Not a whisper from them. And at the end of the video, another title card - scream inside your heart.
KELLY: Because if you scream inside your heart, you're keeping your scream and any virus particles to yourself. The question is, would any U.S. amusement park impose the same rule?
NICK PARADISE: It is an interesting approach. I don't know how effective it would be, you know, here.
KELLY: Nick Paradise is with Pittsburgh's Kennywood amusement park. That park is scheduled to reopen for season pass holders tomorrow. Paradise thinks social distancing and other rules will be enough to keep people safe on the park's eight roller coasters.
PARADISE: Asking people to not scream is a little too much, at least right now. I think kind of crawl, walk, run. We'll be very satisfied and thankful for people following the recommendations to wear the face mask.
CHANG: Those masks will have to be worn everywhere except the water rides.
PARADISE: And we are also going to be limiting capacity and practicing social distancing on the coasters.
CHANG: Like a lot of other parks in the country, Kennywood opened months later than usual. Disney World reopens this week, but Disneyland in California is waiting until it gets a, quote, "better understanding" of state rules.
KELLY: Dollywood in Tennessee - it's now open. The Six Flags chain is reopening on a state-by-state basis.
CHANG: By the time our favorite theme parks are safely back online, we may be out of practice when it comes to handling steep drops and corkscrew loops.
KELLY: But one thing we will have plenty of practice with, this being 2020, is screaming inside our hearts.
pwb
(11,292 posts)2. We are just corporate human stock?
Lots of grandparents won't be footing the bill anymore. Disney is screwed.
jimfields33
(16,006 posts)3. Universal studios in Orlando has been open a month
I havent gone but those that do get on rides pretty quickly since not many people go.
pwb
(11,292 posts)4. Why not have covid-19 gush into your body?
Last edited Sat Jul 11, 2020, 10:15 AM - Edit history (1)
One cough and everybody behind on the ride goes through it? I won't either.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)7. Incredibly small chances of contracting it like that.
Much more likely in ones grocery or gym.
Gothmog
(145,631 posts)5. I will be watching this reopening to see how it goes
Gothmog
(145,631 posts)6. There is a good twitter feed on this opening