While Disney World remains closed along with all of the other global Disney parks, we’ve already seen some of the ways Disney is beginning to handle a return back to “normalcy.”
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Shanghai Disneyland changed their health screening protocol, effective today. This policy introduces new measures upon entering the resort to help keep guests and Cast Members safe.
When Disneytown, Wishing Star Park and Shanghai Disneyland Hotel reopened last month, guests would present their Health QR Code whenever they were entering any restaurant or dining venue. In order to enter the resort, only a temperature scan was required at first.
Previous health measures at Shanghai Disneyland ©Disney
As of today, in addition to the temperature screening, guests must now have their Health QR Codes scanned when they enter the resort area. Only guests with a green QR code may enter the resort. Throughout China, colored codes are currently being assigned to all residents based off their personal habits and temperatures as recorded by individuals. Red and yellow are prohibited from traveling at this time, leaving just green coded guests free to travel to and enter the resort.
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At this time, Shanghai Disneyland park remains closed until further notice. We previously reported on Executive Chairman Bob Iger proposing the possible idea of introducing similar temperature screening for the parks here in the US, which our readers recently shared their thoughts on.
Bob Iger
It will be interesting to see in the coming weeks how this new protocol in Shanghai pans out, and whether or not we will see similar measures brought to Disney World and Disneyland when they reopen.
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What do you think about the measures being implemented at Shanghai Disneyland? Do you see these precautions being added to the US parks? Let us know in the comments!
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It may be helpful to mention how those colors (health QR code’s) are assigned. The communist govt assigns those based on criteria that individual citizens have no voice or say in, and there is not avenue for individuals to change it update their color assignment. This is never a system that would or should work in countries where freedom is a value and guaranteed by our constitution. Just sayin / it may “work” there, but that system would never work here.
I think it’s important to remember that these controls are most likely entirely government mandated. While I do believe Disney will implement some form of screening, how they are doing this in Shanghai has everything to do with how the government is forcing them to screen individuals. These articles are also giving me some bad anxiety, I need to find something more cheery so I at least feel like I have something positive to look forward to in the future.
Excellent article! I was wondering if Disney is taking the same precautions in Tokyo or Paris, for example.
Infected guests with mild symptoms could easily reduce their temperatures with Tylenol, just as the businesswoman from Shanghai did when she spread Covid-19 to her business associates in Germany. And of course, taking temperatures does nothing to help screen out those who do not have fevers with Covid-19 or are asymptomatic.
This won’t fly here in America.
I’m afraid to say but it looks like things will never get back to normal until we get a vaccine.
My hopes for my trip in August are all but gone.
Taking temperatures won’t work as what about the people who are asystemic also what about the crowded
buses that take you to the different parks, who is going to clean those areas . As it is they jam way to many people on these buses, how can there be social distancing there
Just want to encourage everyone and say “keep the faith“! We are all hoping and praying for this to end, and all over the world Researchers and scientists are working day and night to come up with a vaccine hopefully and prayerfully earlier then next year, and possibly by later this year. This too shall pass if we all do our part and follow the guidelines mandated by our state governments. Stay inside when asked to do so, and stop the spread. Wear a mask if you must go out. Wash your hands and use sanitizer frequently. It’s up to us as individuals and as a nation to do our part. We truly are all in this together, and we will get through this together with the help of God, and by each one of us doing what is asked of us to keep ourselves, our families, and our neighbors safe.