As Disney Springs prepares for its reopening tomorrow, new signage has been posted throughout the grounds with “Health and Safety Reminders”. Additional signage has been installed at entertainment venues and at store entrances. Members of the press are currently getting a preview of all the new protocols, from parking garage temperature screenings to the new hand washing stations set up throughout the shopping and dining complex. This next series of photos comes courtesy of Spectrum News:
As you arrive at the parking garage, hand sanitizer stations are available throughout.
Additional signage, similar to the ones posted throughout Disney Springs, will be posted on A-frames throughout the garages.
Temperature screenings are provided by AdventHealth (at least for this media preview), as a medical professional will be taking your temperature upon entry. (This is a marked difference from CityWalk at Universal Orlando, where Security hosts take temperatures instead.) If you or any member of your party has a temperature of 100.4 or higher, the entire party will be denied entry. Face masks will also be required for all guests over the age of 3.
Throughout the grounds, lids have been modified on garbage bins so you can drop in any trash contact-free.
Hand washing stations will be available throughout the grounds as well.
Robert Guaderrama via FOX35 walked us through some of the new guidelines and procedures:
Disney Springs Parking and Temperature Check Upon Arrival
Disney Springs reopens tomorrow at 10am! I’m getting a sneak-peek today, keep it with @fox35orlando #FOX35 #WDW @DisneySprings pic.twitter.com/UTzMUR6mi3
— Robert Guaderrama (@RobGuaderrama) May 19, 2020
Handwashing Stations and Directional Arrows Along Walkways
Wrong way! @DisneySprings has placed directional arrows on narrow pathways to promote social distancing. @fox35orlando #FOX35 #WDW pic.twitter.com/3L7joFVeDb
— Robert Guaderrama (@RobGuaderrama) May 19, 2020
To check out the full list of stores and restaurants reopening on May 20, click here.
Will you be headed to Disney Springs this week? You can review all of the new Disney Springs guidelines here, and don’t forget to read up on some of the Frequently Asked Questions here.
Featured Image: Asher Wildman via Spectrum News
I think ultimately the temperature checks are useless if you stop to factor in that 2/3 of COVID-19 patients presented with no fever according to Physician’s Weekly. Also there are a multitude of non-contagious conditions that can cause fever one example being migraine headaches. So it’s likely guests with no fever that are COVID-19 positive will be admitted while people with non-contagious conditions and fever will be turned away. I fail to see how this measure protects anyone at the end of the day.
The temperature checks are just one spoke in the guideline wheel. It’s coupled with social distancing, masks, and temperature checks. If you even have one person denied entry due to a fever that has the virus, that will inevitably prevent them from giving it to multiple others. I’m pretty sure if one of your family members could possibly be infected, you would have a different take on temperature checks. It’s not just a USA guideline, but used worldwide.
Migraine causing fever is exceptionally rare. That shouldn’t even be a consideration. Temperature checks are not at all useless. Most fevers are caused by contagious disease, COVID-19 or not, or infection. A person with one of those conditions will be more susceptible to contracting COVID-19, which means they will be more likely to spread it to others as well. It’s not just about that particular day in that particular environment. If Person A walks into Disney Springs with the flu and passes it to someone else, both are more vulnerable. If Person B walks in with an infection that is not contagious, they are still in a state of suppressed immune system and more vulnerable to contracting COVID-19, which puts them at risk and creates the potential of spreading it to other people. This means fever checks will catch those with COVID-19 presenting with a fever, as well as those in more vulnerable states because of other conditions, and those with contagious conditions that could make others more vulnerable.
This is where the masks come in. Wearing a mask does not protect you. It protects the people around you. Therefore if someone who is asymptomatic goes in, the enforced masks will provide another layer of protection, handwashing and sanitizing stations another, and social distancing another. It is not about one singular method of mediation. Several layers work together to protect people. No one is saying if you don’t have a fever you can go in and start licking people and it’s fine. If someone handed you a bowl of M&Ms and said some of those red ones are poison, but just because they’re red doesn’t mean they’re poison, you would probably want to take all the red ones out just to be sure, right? Doesn’t mean there aren’t other colors that might be poison, too, but you eliminate the most obvious danger first, then go from there.
You failing to see how the measure protects anyone is your own lack of insight, not a fallacy of the policy.
Which is why they also require people to wear masks.
There is no means of protection that is 100% effective, aside from staying totally closed. This is why they also have signs telling you that, by visiting, you assume the risk of exposure. The safety measures and guidelines might help limit exposure, but they don’t guarantee protection any more than speed limit signs guarantee protection against car crashes.
It’s also pretty easy to get around this by taking a fever reducer (tylenol, advil, etc) an hour before arrival. Like security theater, this is health safety theater. Even Iger admitted in his interview recently that Disney needs to make people “feel” like it is safe to return.
I agree. Putting on a bandaid if you need stitches works sometimes too. What’s the point? Disney is willing to take the risk. It has to be for the money.