Same here. Flying out 5/7 and returning home 5/15. The moment I read the news I was immediately concerned with my flights being cancelled. I live in Maryland and the other people I'm going with are in New Jersey. I'm already trying to come up with a Plan B :/
"The principle is sound. To avoid illness, expose yourself to germs, enabling your immune system to develop antibodies. I don't know why everyone doesn't do this. Maybe they have something against living forever."
You have to remember the mask was not a magical barrier to transmission. Taking it away isn't going to make a massive spread. Not sure where this thought is coming from quite honestly. Help some? Sure. Help significantly? Nope. Covid will not run rampant throughout the industry overnight (or even over a week) now that masks are gone from flights.
Someone posted recently that MCO had made theirs optional before this decision came down yesterday.
they were never required. Universal hasn't had them on their buses for almost a year now (except for the couple weeks around Christmas this year). Disney might get rid of them but I'm guessing they'll keep them for a bit.
I have seen numerous articles regarding overseas flights in the UK that reported that within weeks of the mask mandates being lifted that cancellations increased due to staffing shortages caused by illness or positive cases. If these increased cancellations started in the UK within a few weeks of the mandate being lifted, then it stands to reason that the same could happen here with the combination of masks not being worn and this stealth omicron variant (or whatever is is called) supposedly on the rise. We are flying Southwest and there are limited flights out of the airport that we are using, so if our flight gets cancelled we have limited options. Which is why I'm looking at it through this lens and trying to think ahead some and develop alternate plans.
I don't think you'll have any issues. The flight attendants won't be as stressed on flights now. The flight should be a lot more pleasant from now on.
News flash, you are NOT going to live forever.
Love Vinay! Such good common sense and scientific thinking!
However you want to put it, Disney requires them as of this moment. I wasn't aware we were discussing Universal buses. We stay at Hard Rock there, so we can walk. No buses needed.
Or staffing shortages caused by people not showing up for work and using it as an excuse. Because they were not suddenly exposed to germs one day when they weren't the day before.
I was just pointing out that Disney can do it's own thing. It was never a federal rule for their private buses/transportation.
Yeah, I know that, YOU know that. But evidently DISNEY does not know that. They claim their buses and monorail fall under the same federal rule as airplanes and other public transportation. I rolled my eyes at that but that was Disney's claim, not mine. That was my point.
