AmyUD06

Which one is it? Hint: There's an edit button.

Except, as explained above, I'd half to say that at least half of a parks attendee's don't check a website before going, thus they will have no idea they need a reservation, and thus will make the 3 hour drive just to be turned away, regardless whether or not the park is "at capacity." Which, by the way, is a much bigger number than you can imagine it. In 6 years of working at SFGAdv, we only reached "capacity" twice, and they were both major concert nights. Even if parks reduced capacity by half, I highly doubt you'd see many days when a park would reach "capacity," especially given how many idiots are still going to be scared to venture out into public until there's a vaccine. I can count a few in this thread alone.

If that's all it is, I have no problem with it. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that the parks I go to frequently don't implement virtual queues.

You are over thinking it. Let's say they were supposed to open on May 1, but remain closed through the end of July. That's three months. That means, with your 2020 pass, you get the remainder of 2020, plus the first 3 months of 2021.

Fix'd.

Right? However, I will admit... It's interesting to see that coaster enthusiast are now also economist, governors, and people willing to sacrifice human life, even their loved ones... for a hair cut. Not to mention people willing to sacrifice the entire US economy and social system over a disease that kills only 7% of people it infects. See, I can be infantile and hurl insults, too. Still waiting on your answers as to how much suffering by the masses is acceptable to save a very small portion of human lives.

As I thought, you don't have answers that don't prove my point. Continue being childish though, by all means.

Quit misdirecting and answer my questions: In you opinion, what is an acceptable time to reopen the economy? What is an acceptable amount of people out of work?

Yet another deflection. For the record, I can't stand Fox News or any other major news network for that matter.

Nice job deflecting from the questions I asked. Yes, that would be acceptable. It would be horrible losing a close loved one; when things become personal they always hurt more. Would I be willing to sacrifice myself or one of them to keep millions if not billions of people from suffering the same fate? Yes. It may be "too soon" right now, but I ask again - when, in your minds, would it be acceptable to reopen? When the risk is zero? When a vaccine is developed? How do you propose to keep everyone who is not deemed "essential" surviving until that happens?

Fine, vilify me as one of the "big baddies" who "values money over people." What I said is the truth. You can't keep the economy closed forever. People need to work to put roofs over their heads and food in their families' stomachs. They're saying a vaccine is anywhere from 6-18 months out from the origin. Are you willing to keep life paused for millions or billions of people for a year and a half - no income, no haircuts, no education, no nothing, people and families going broke, losing their homes (landlords and banks need to feed their families too), resorting to crime, basically the collapse of society, to save maybe tens or hundreds of thousands? Yes, we as a society may be able to survive a month or two shut down. But six months? A year? What is your cutoff? What if there's never a vaccine, and it comes back in waves like the regular flu? Are we going to shut down the world every time there's a flare up? Is your option the government pays for everything? Rent/mortgages? Utilities, including internet? Food and clothing? Government money will run out at some point, sooner if they're not taking in taxes from all kinds of closed business and sales tax. Or they just keep printing money until its value plummets, and a gallon of milk costs $50. You say it's "valuing money over people," but it's not. It's valuing a continuing, functioning society. During H1N1, we did virtually nothing and lost between 150-280k people in the US. The world continued. It may be "cold," but its truth - if you want a functioning society, you need to let that society function and not grind everything to a halt. Yes, some people will die - more will die or be closer to death if you shut down the world for too long. If you were younger I could see having such a mindset...how someone only two years younger than me, in their mid-30s, can't see that boggles me.

Or if he values not completely trashing the economy, sending millions to the poor house, over a comparably inconsequential number of human lives. Sometimes we need to sacrifice the few to save the many, as sad as it is to say.

I sure hope not. I have no desire to get to a park and be told "sorry, you may not be able to ride this totally functioning ride based on random luck of the draw."

Yeah, but isn't that like 1/10th of the normal traffic on those highways? And actually on topic for this forum, for theme park content: 0:54 Knott's 9:15 Universal 14:12 Magic Mountain.

Well given that Coumo is basing his entire NY State response around NYC, yeah I'd say that's not out of the question.

Yes. The only alternative to returning life to normal is continuing in the perpetual shutdown until there's a vaccine, which may be 6 months, a year, 18 months, or never.

Yep, snow in the middle of April. This truly is the end of days.

Their COVID-19 statement is still from March 20th; they haven't updated their website today like many of the other parks did. Give it time.

Fix'd. Let's be realistic here.

Agreed, my apologies. Opinion has been edited from my post.

Lucky you, and me I guess. My agency isn't doing any of the enforcement on social distancing (by nature of our job) either. The City in which my jurisdiction lies passed an "emergency ordinance" prohibiting gatherings of more than 10, even on private property, which carries a substantial fine, and their department has been enforcing it. The Governor has authorized all law enforcement in the state to stop cars with out-of-state tags but no other reason to determine their business. Our State Police has been camped out at shopping centers near the borders with Pennsylvania ID'ing "foreigners" trying to buy alcohol (PA closed all of their stores) and sending them back.

I imagine that question will have hundreds if not thousands of different answers; every district is going to do their own thing. In Delaware, at least in one district where a friend of mine works, they're doing "optional distance learning" for the rest of this year. He said that like 4 out of his 89 students completed the last assignment LOL.

I would've been satisfied if they "relocated" Laser back to the park. It was up for sale a while ago...

I fail to see where I recommended anyone to do anything, so I'm not sure what "advice" I provided. Also, where, exactly, has anything I said contradicted the medical professionals opinion on the matter?

Listen, I'm not one of those "this is only the flu" people, but I'm not one of those "life will never be the same" people either. Yes, of course infected numbers are going to skyrocket once widespread testing (that is, testing others than those who exhibit every symptom as has been current practice), and of course death numbers are going to rise (at a much slower level). Many models estimate that most of us have already had it. Am I expecting 100,000 deaths in the US? By no means. Fact is, we don't know when/if it's going to go away. It may very well fix itself by June 1, or it may be June 1 2021, or anywhere in the middle or it may be never at all. A vaccine was developed for H1N1 within 7 months of the first US reported case. Going by that timetable, with the first US COVID-19 case being reported in January, we're likely looking at July for a vaccine date. You also have to remember that the federal government got involved in H1N1 a LOT slower than this current administration, so if anything the timetable for a vaccine might be shorter. Not that a vaccine will be required to restart a normal way of life, given that most people who become infected have zero symptoms and are little to no danger to themselves or most of their immediate contacts. Panic and assuming that this is the "new normal" is just as bad as assuming it's nothing. Yeah, I'll concede that unemployment will rise, but not by much. Expect plenty of companies to extend their "on the payroll" date. I fail to see why "social distancing" and uber-sanitation need to become aspects of normal life when this is over. People are going to get sick and people are going to die no matter what scary new disease is going around. And I totally agree it won't be a healthy market for parks, but I just don't see it as much of a doom-saying situation as some obviously do.