Oh, thankyou. I guess I got the wrong idea from this.
COVID-19’s Impacts on BGW
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No problem but feel free to sit at the toll plaza and let us know if you see Pantheon testing.
Sorry I missed your attachment Busch definitely dropped the ball on the wording if that and it's easy to see how you could have made that mistake hope that it didn't ruin your day and you still get to enjoy the park this afternoon.
I am in line at guest services unrelated to that and it sounds like several people are in that boat of their tickets apparently saying 10 for today. They are rightfully upset. That is a HUGE screw up on the parks part.
Does anyone think session 1 or 2 tomorrow will be less busy? I'm sure they'll both be busy but any thoughts?
With the nice weather the birds are back in their enclosure in the wild reserve
More families at the morning session. More young adults at the evening session. Probably equally crowded, but better chance at shorter lines for coasters in the morning I’d say? (I realize this is less helpful after midnight).
I had to enforce distancing with kids/parent-kid groups in the Apollo’s line twice yesterday, true.
Speaking of this, what is everyone’s opinion about actively enforcing things yourself? I’m all for this!
Depends on if it's something that's directly affecting you and how you enforce it - basically sounds like a way to become a Karen even if you're well-meaning.
It makes my day worse when I feel like I need to (read: the park isn't doing their job), but I will not shy away from asking someone to back up if I feel like that's required.
A couple weeks ago a family got in line literally inches behind me and the wife wasn't wearing a mask. I very politely asked them if they'd mind backing up for social distancing and, well, there was very nearly an incident that would have required security intervention—one of the most irate people I've ever seen at a park—ranting, yelling, the whole nine yards.
Again, I don't want to have to try to enforce the park's rules myself because, ironically, doing so can create unsafe situations. That said, if I'm left no other option, I will certainly say something.
Ultimately, experiences like that are why I've been calling for significantly stepped up security. They are equipped to deal with enraged park rule violators—other front line staff and guests are not.
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I mean, I don‘t want to HAVE to do it.
I’ve generally had positive experiences with it, although the first time yesterday—two women and a few kids, masks under noses, who just marched up to me in the line for Apollo’s—were probably closest to reacting in the way @Zachary just described but mostly just seemed annoyed with me. Really the biggest problem is that you have a mask on—I was double masking, so two—and so it’s hard to communicate clearly, and so they might not heat the “Please” and just hear my tone, which I struggle to keep from communicating my absolute judgment of their lack thereof.
But I think it’s less about my own experience as a tall white dude who is comfortable asserting himself, and more about how others who may not be as comfortable, or who may be in a situation where they are more likely to be othered by the people they’re speaking to (a woman being crowded by men, someone younger being crowded by someone older, a person of color being crowded by white people) in a way that could become violent quickly.
The one bad experience I had—it’s in this thread somewhere— was the second weekend in August, and I got some sarcastic jawing about “Am I six feet back now?” in the line for Trapper’s, and I stopped standing in line for the main restaurants at that point. To me, it’s easier with the coaster lines because the dots are there (Trapper’s was a free-for-all once they lost the host role directing people where to go that they had opening night), but again: there’s privilege in feeling comfortable enough to say something, and proper distancing shouldn’t be DEPENDENT on that.
(The second experience yesterday was two young kids riding Apollo’s by themselves and they just had NO idea what they were supposed to be doing, and were young enough that my corrective then became an EXTREMELY obedient adherence to the green dots like I was a proper authority figure.)
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I feel like they need to do what grocery stores do and have a pre-recorded message saying to weak masks properly, social distance, use sanitizer, wash hands, and have it play about every 15 minutes; and in the queues having it about every 10.
I haven't been through the pandemic, but they should be playing stuff like that.
That's kinda sad. I have noticed that there have been some more 'lax' enforcement all the way around, but when those announcements come on people kinda look around and resistance themselves as well as adjust masks.
I think where most people are having issues at BGW likely comes in with the being outside and this feeling that's been pushed for people that outside is ok. So the attention to these things outside don't really take as high of a level.
I actually don’t remember ever hearing this on Friday? Did I just block it out?
Yep, it was there still on Friday. It plays a lot less often than it did last fall, but it runs still.