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By George Robbins

Ever since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, plenty of public businesses have had absolutely no choice but to remain closed, until recently. Although it goes against better judgement, many businesses that have been closed have started reopening worldwide to keep economies from total collapse. Among the businesses that have had to shut down are amusement parks which receive the most amount of foot traffic when it comes to public businesses. Recently parks like Universal Orlando and Disneyland Shanghai have opened up their gates, with restrictions, to allow visitors back into their parks. There are some such as Universal Studios Hollywood and Disneyland in California that have plans to reopen in July when things start calming down a bit more.

Asia was the first place to get hit by the virus following the initial outbreak in China, so it is no surprise that they are now starting plans for reopening public places. Some businesses are struggling after they reopen, but there is hope for many others that they will be able to make up for lost time. Among the businesses that are set to reopen their gates are the aforementioned amusement parks and most recently announced for reopening is the Hong Kong Disneyland park. This park reopening is supposed to take place Thursday June 18th and the park will be doing what they can to reopen without much issue. The problem remains that they must follow the restrictions in place to allow people in the park including limited capacity.

Disney World itself isn’t set for a reopening until the middle of July, but some parks like the previously mentioned Disneyland Shanghai and a part of Disney Springs has been reopened with stormtroopers enforcing distancing. Disney has been trying their best to get their parks to open back up again amidst countless losses due to the virus. They haven’t had any of their parks opened properly for months and they have had to push back release dates for a countless amount of their movies. Other than the licensing money and toy lines that they sell, they have been losing a lot of money, especially since their parks must be maintained even when shut down so that they will be ready when the parks reopen to the public. There is no telling if the parks will stay opened moving forward, but they are certainly trying to get them up and running as soon as possible.