coasterbill 468 Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 I’m so ready for these totally arbitrary and nonsensical covid rules to be over. So a waterpark with no masks was fine all summer but they can’t run a coaster Or a Scrambler with a bunch of empty rows 5 months later with everyone wearing masks? No clue where they came up with that but I have no doubt that they claimed they were “following the science™” 5 Link to post Share on other sites
jlp94 0 Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 ^ My thoughts as well. The decision up to the state, of course, but it doesn't really make sense. Link to post Share on other sites
coasterbill 468 Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 Also, on the surface this seems great but if it’s a ploy to un-freeze all Six Flags Great America memberships for 5 additional months as opposed to having to keep them frozen until they open next May without opening any rides then L...o...f*cking... L Link to post Share on other sites
prozach626 129 Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 On 10/15/2020 at 7:22 AM, coasterbill said: I’m so ready for these totally arbitrary and nonsensical covid rules to be over. So a waterpark with no masks was fine all summer but they can’t run a coaster Or a Scrambler with a bunch of empty rows 5 months later with everyone wearing masks? No clue where they came up with that but I have no doubt that they claimed they were “following the science™” This is life in Illinois. We're everything that's wrong with California, without the view. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
coasterbill 468 Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 The walk-through event was confirmed on the conference call. This is the extent of what we know... Quote We plan to open a holiday walkthrough experience at our Great America Park, outside of Chicago in late November through December Link LOL if they un-freeze the memberships. Link to post Share on other sites
prozach626 129 Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 We just shut down local food and entertainment again. No inside dining. Seems pretty fucked to me. Link to post Share on other sites
Danrarbc 13 Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Great America is joining 3 other parks in turning Holiday in the Park into a drive-thru. Link to post Share on other sites
coasterbill 468 Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Yup... Six Flags is still running circles around the rest of the regional park industry and it’s horrifying. Link to post Share on other sites
prozach626 129 Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 10 hours ago, coasterbill said: Yup... Six Flags is still running circles around the rest of the regional park industry and it’s horrifying. "Buy your season passes for only $49.99 to enjoy unlimited visits to Six Flags Elysburg in 2021." 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Mike240SX 88 Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 31 minutes ago, prozach626 said: "Buy your season passes for only $49.99 to enjoy unlimited visits to Six Flags Elysburg in 2021." Not even funny, man, not even funny. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
CenturyFlyer 16 Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 Just like at Over Texas, I think that Great America may have leaked its plans for 2021! 4 Link to post Share on other sites
dankeykang 45 Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 We'll see if this actually happens, but good for Six Flags for at least putting a date out there! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
dankeykang 45 Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 Spoke too soon - the reopening date has disappeared Will be interesting to see how many parks have to backtrack on their proposed opening dates this year... Link to post Share on other sites
Canobie Coaster 114 Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 I have to think any park that was allowed to open in 2020 shouldn't have any issue. With the vaccines and warmer weather sending people outdoors, the cases and (more importantly) hospitalizations should keep decreasing. The big question mark are the parks that couldn't open in 2020. Six Flags New England hasn't even offered an opening date yet. Link to post Share on other sites
prozach626 129 Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 It's another example of Illinois being Illinois. If I didn't have any obligations in this state I'd do whatever I could to leave. Link to post Share on other sites
ilrider 0 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 New park opening date of April 24 announced today! They moved it up a week! Link to post Share on other sites
SharkTums 215 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Obviously things can change but this is a step in the right direction for them actually opening up! Link to post Share on other sites
Coasters & Lamps 0 Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 I'm divided when it comes to COVID. If a state is going to have restrictions, at least do it right. Illinois is allowing water parks because the chemicals in the water have been found to kill COVID. Okay, so is the vapor rising off the water going to kill ALL the virions by an infected host before they have a chance to land the dude he sneezes on, who is sitting right next to him? Of course not! It has already been proven that COVID doesn't spread nearly as efficiently outside as it does inside, especially in warmer, moist air. So I still can't see why the water park was allowed to open while the dry park wasn't, especially in the middle of summer. Either close them both or open them both. I don't know how people can rationally pick and choose one and not the other. With all that being said, I am all for taking precautions to prevent the spread, especially after loosing my grandfather to COVID last November. Half of my family are of the IFB persuasion, and therefore they believed every right wing narrative that comes along without question. Most thought COVID was the sniffles, and at least one still thought it was a hoax as late as last summer. When I went back to the family farm to see my father and grandfather last June, my cousin and her husband were also visiting my grandfather right after they had just got back from frolicking on Florida's beaches. No precautions taken. Once I mentioned something about COVID, my cousin's husband simply said "you can't live in fear". My aunt arrived later that visit, and all she could do was take pot shots at the governor and complain about how it was a violation of her rights to be forced to wear a mask anywhere. I received word at the end of that month that they had all packed into my grandfather's tiny home for his birthday. This is 2 conservative aunts with 10 children between them. And each of these 10 children have children of their own. Add to this a few of their church friends and there were easily 30-40 people crammed into 720 sq. ft. of space. No masks, no social distancing. I knew that one of them would eventually catch COVID and give it to him. Well, fast-forward to early November and I received a message from my father that my grandfather had been hospitalized and on a ventilator after testing positive with COVID. My father, who lives next door to him, had to rush him in on Halloween In addition to the COVID pneumonia, the virus also attacked his kidneys, and fluid built up around his heart. He was in peak physical health before this and still active out on the farm, so his heart was strong enough to withstand the pressure of the fluid, and his vitals remained stable for over a week despite his constant laboring for breath and the damage the virus kept doing. Finally, he started to become less responsive and weaker after a week. On the 12th of November, when it was apparent that the damage was too extensive for him to even make a satisfactory recovery, and the ventilator was on the cusp of causing complications of its own, his 5 children held a zoom meeting and decided to pull the ventilator. He passed away that afternoon...after 13 days of laboring for each breath. While I knew he he would eventually get it, I surely never thought he'd die from it due to his perfect health. Prior to this, he had not spent a single night in the hospital since his appendix burst sometime in the 1960's. He fought off occasional bouts of FLU with no problems and as recently as 2 years ago. This is man who broke his finger a few years back and discovered that his wrist was broken and healed some time ago and he didn't remember when it could have been. I did work with a boxer's fracture and that bad bad enough. He was a hard worker, I don't know how he managed to continue his farm chores with a broken wrist and have it set back up while not being aware the entire time. He had been widowed since 2014, so it became routine for his 5 children to check up on him. His 2 daughters were warned all summer long by the rest of us, but they wouldn't listen in time. And since he seldom left the farm after giving up driving a decade ago, we know damn well that it was one of the said family members who were playing with fire. My blood is still boiling over this. Not only did their ignorant behavior result in the death of my grandfather, but they also put my father & step-mother at risk as well. Luckily, my father didn't get it. Attribute that to mask-wearing or luck. I flew on a plane to visit some friends in South Dakota last August and quarantined for 2 weeks before coming back to the farm in September. I was also planning on visiting Indiana Beach as soon as I got back from South Dakota, but those plans fell through and I had my first year without a roller coaster since 2014. I'm still hoping to get there this year, especially with the new Scwarzkoph they're getting, but I still plan to wear a mask and social distance wherever possible, and I may still quarantine before coming around older people. I doubt I'll make it much elsewhere next year. It is my fervent hope that the vaccine effects will continue to exceed expectations and COVID will be a non-issue, but with the new variants, who knows. There's no easy answers to it. I have an uncle who works at Caterpillar with a couple of co-workers and some of their family members who died form it. There's no easy answers. I just know I want the virus gone. 5 Link to post Share on other sites
ytterbiumanalyst 2 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 ^ Thank you for this story. It's not easy to share something this personal. Hopefully people will see that their actions have consequences. Link to post Share on other sites
prozach626 129 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 So about Six Flags Great America... Hopefully they're not stuck with one train ops and half full trains like SFSTL was all season. It wasn't worth visiting. Link to post Share on other sites
ilrider 0 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 On 2/28/2021 at 6:49 AM, prozach626 said: So about Six Flags Great America... Hopefully they're not stuck with one train ops and half full trains like SFSTL was all season. It wasn't worth visiting. Thankfully, one train ops are not something this park has ever been known for, but no idea what it will look like under COVID. The half full trains, I am fully expecting. Link to post Share on other sites
YoshiFan 1 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 If they follow what other parks did, at the minimum, the B&M coasters should be loading every row. Maybe Maxx Force too since the seatbacks are so tall. I guess the absolute worst case scenario would be every other row on all coasters except X Flight and Superman unless the state decides to be strict and require skipping rows on all the coasters. Link to post Share on other sites
prozach626 129 Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 ^No. SFSTL had the "absolute worst" example. American Thunder (GCI) ran one train ops and loaded it half empty. When the cycle finished, they would soak it in cheap smelling sanitizer and let it run empty for a cycle to dry off, which only partially worked. Link to post Share on other sites
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