A sobering and sane take on the SoCal theme parks being closed. I want them open too -- but as Robert Niles smartly summarizes in the article below, "I do know that talking about economic impact won& #39;t help. Nor will fan spam campaigns." https://twitter.com/ThemePark/status/1319429361250885632">https://twitter.com/ThemePark...

Y& #39;all can disagree, and yes, definitely write your representatives if you feel passionate about it. But for me, The crowded footage I& #39;ve seen from FL is horrifying, and the mask/distancing compliance seems very weak to me.

The number of people you& #39;ll spend more time next to in a queue is a higher risk than short-term adjacencies of shopping, or longer-term but less-people adjacencies of dining (or movies/sporting events) just because of the percentage of possible carriers you& #39;ll be adjacent to.

Plus, the CA properties are very different from FL; they have a FAR smaller footprint overall w/the same attendance impact, and a far larger (and more rabid, IMHO) passholder base that all live closer to the parks, meaning even at lowered capacity it will be packed every day.

You can say "measles is more contagious" and be scientifically correct, but it has a vaccine. We just had seventy-five thousand Covid infections in the US yesterday, the second biggest day of new infections ever, and in a matter of weeks we& #39;ll cross 100,000 new infections a day.

This is a failure not of CA state government, but from lack of adequate Federal response, and I believe that CA is doing the responsible thing. The strain on hospitals and healthcare has a ripple effect to the overall economy and must be curtailed first.