With more than 49,000 cases of COVID-19 in Florida over the past week, Disney is still set on opening their parks with no testing available to their actors. By putting profits over safety, Disney puts workers and audiences at risk.
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The actors have a much lower chance of getting infected than any other front line cast member. Try being a custodial, main entrance, attractions, guest relations, or housekeeper seeing thousands of people in your personal space a day. In reality the theme parks can operate fine without shows. But I do agree testing ALL cast members is something that would of set Disney apart from the rest.
Hard to say that reopening is the wrong decision.
For example, for COVID-19 the Infection Fatality Rate is in the range of 0.5% to 1.0%.
The common flu ranges from 0.13% to 0.22%.
Do we go back to work for a extremely small risk, or have a 100% certainty of being laid off and having no job, health insurance, and becoming homeless when unemployment runs out?
Disney is trying hard to balance risk of infection vs having to lay off workers. It’s a hard decision but if we continue to close then there is a 100% certainty of you being laid off.
The question becomes at its extremes, Would you choose to have a 1.0% chance of dying or a 100 % chance of being homeless?