The once happiest place on earth has become more and more unhappy. And not only Disneyland, but every one of the other theme parks in California.
With the head of the California Attractions and Parks Association not ruling out legal action, you know they mean business.
And it’s all about business, their business, and the impact the pandemic has had on it.
Despite their efforts in recent months to convince the Governor and state health officials to ease the rules to let the parks open, the new guidelines released this week by California’s Health and Human Services Secretary fell way short of what the theme parks had wanted.
That’s because they require the counties in which the theme parks are located to be in the least restrictive tier in the state’s color-coded COVID monitoring system, the Yellow, before California’s theme parks can open. And that could take months, as in, not until sometime after the start of the new year.
With tens of thousands of their employees laid off and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue already lost, the theme parks areunderstandably worried that things could get so bad, there may not be as many theme parks around in the future. And that would be bad for California’s tourism and economy.
So they won’t give up without a fight, and maybe a big legal fight, to do what the head of the theme parks associations says is their goal, to open up responsibly.
So keep your hands and feet inside the boat, this could be a wild ride!
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