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Walt Disney World Has Plans to Reduce Park Hours

By George Robbins

Approximately one month ago, Disney World reopened its doors to the public and people were allowed to re-enter the parks. Though people were able to re-enter the parks, there were rules that had been put in place in order to accommodate for the pandemic. Among those rules was a restriction placed on the number of people who would be allowed to enter the parks at any given time. Although this rule- along with a few others- was put in place, employees of the parks have still been worried about working under conditions where it could be very likely that they could contract the virus. This worry has resulted in Disney cracking down even more on people who haven’t been listening to the rules.

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One of the first things to be announced after the reopening of Disney World was the simple rule that people who don’t wear their masks on rides wouldn’t be allowed to purchase their souvenir photos. Small things like this wouldn’t appear to be effective, but for those going to the parks, this has some weight to it. Those who are going to the parks are going for a reason and they don’t want their experience to be ruined just because they couldn’t listen to a simple rule. Although, this did result in some interesting, but mildly infuriating loopholes to come to fruition. These loopholes would then be exploited by park guests in order to allow themselves movement around the park without their faces being covered. Needless to say, Disney very quickly too action.

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Disney Parks put a new rule in place not too long after reopening to the public which stated that people were not allowed to move while eating or drinking. The loophole that was being exploited was one where people were freely moving around without their masks covering their face. Clearly, when guests are eating or drinking, they have to take their masks off, but some guests took it too far when they used it to their advantage. Disney quickly caught on to this and changed their policies so that people would not be allowed to move around while they were eating or drinking. This was a ban that was put in place across all of their parks and has been strictly upheld like their other rules that are in place to prevent the further spread of disease.

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Recently, Disney announced just how much of a hit they had taken with the parks being shut down for a total of $3.5 Billion just from the parks. The surge of virus cases in Florida have caused a lot of different cancellations to their parks and the limitations on things like park hoppers removed a lot of incentive for guests to go to the parks. In an effort to cut down on costs, starting September 8th, Disney World parks will be closing 1-2 hours earlier each day and this will carry through October. They have been receiving nothing but flak since reopening because people have felt that they reopened too early. To them, this is an effort to save costs and maybe even save some face with the public by also claiming it is for the health of their guests.

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