Hey - I've been lurking around here for *years* and finally got around to making an account.
And the thing I can't help but notice here is that no one pointed out that a *lot* of the folks who work at SDC are older, and therefore *possibly* more at risk from COVID-19.
Although not quite a walking antique myself (yet) I do worry about a lot of good people who work there every year. Many of them have existing health issues, but get up every morning, help open up the Park and welcome us in. They smile and chitchat with us, and make us feel welcome and valued.
They are - for our family - as much an "attraction" as any building or ride or show. It's the *people* who work there that make SDC a great place to go, year after year.
So I will feel good about going back to SDC when I know that the folks who work there are safe and as protected as they can be.
I'll be fine - my family will be fine - if we have to wait a while longer to visit. But it's not worth the cost of any of those folks to me.
And, for the record? We glove & mask up before we go anywhere - because we try to protect *everyone* that we interact with. I don't care who you are, or where you work, or what your politics or religion are - I'm not going to be the person who infects you if I can help it. We *do* know someone who died from COVID-19; a family friend who worked side-by-side with my husband for years and was hospitalized, on a vent for 12 days before he died alone in ICU. His family never saw him, never touched him again after he entered the hospital, and they had to be quarantined at home for 2 weeks (as did our entire family, and all of his co-workers and *their* families). There was no funeral, just a burial. Hopefully at some point in the future, we can all get together at a memorial for him.
I think that in the end, what will matter most to SDC (and really anyplace where employees have to deal with the public in general) is how we look out for each other.
I'm going to go back into "lurk" mode now. Y'all stay safe and healthy (and @chittlins, for crying out loud stay off that ding-dang hill)