CORONA Shanghai Disneyland suddenly shuts doors, visitors inside must produce negative COVID test to exit

[Kathy in FL]

Shanghai Disneyland suddenly shuts doors, visitors inside must produce negative COVID test to exit​

Imagine you decided to take the family to Disneyland, and while the little ones are trying on Mickey Mouse ears, the gates to the Magic Kingdom suddenly swung shut, trapping you and every other visitor to the park inside until you could provide the park with a negative COVID-19 test.

Well, visitors to China’s Disneyland don’t have to imagine the insane scenario: They’re living it.

At 11:39 local time on Monday, the Disney Resort in Shanghai announced that it was immediately shutting the main theme park and surrounding areas — including its shopping street.

In an “important notice” posted on the park’s website, the company stated, “In order to follow the requirement of pandemic prevention and control, Shanghai Disney Resort, including Shanghai Disneyland, Disneytown and Wishing Star Park will be closed starting Monday, October 31, 2022, with immediate effect.”

“We will notify guests as soon as we have a confirmed date to resume operations,” the park promised.

On its official WeChat account, the Shanghai government stated that no one was allowed to enter or exit the park until further notice in compliance with China’s strict COVID-19 “zero-tolerance” protocols, according to Reuters. Guests inside the park at the time of the lockdown must wait for their COVID test results before being allowed to leave.

The government is also requiring that all those who visited the park after October 27 test for COVID-19 three times in three days.

On Saturday, the resort announced that it was operating with a reduced workforce as the COVID measures dictate, and a Shanghai Disney Resort spokesperson said trapped guests were still receiving “limited offerings.”

Online, users reported on social media that the park was operating rides for the visitors stuck inside. Though unverified, videos on China’s popular Weibo platform showed people racing to the park’s gates following the announcement on Monday, only to find they were already locked.

Some of the videos quickly made their way to Twitter.

According to Asian Tech Press, the park “said that 60,000 visitors are lining up for viral tests.”

This isn’t the first time that COVID has forced Shanghai Disney Resort to close its doors.

Earlier this year, the park was shut down for more than three months, Reuters reports. And in November of last year, authorities trapped more than 30,000 visitors inside the park for two days and ordered them all to be tested as part of a contact tracing exercise.

On October 30, as the park once again locked down, Shanghai reported just 10 locally transmitted cases of the virus. According to authorities, all involved people without symptoms.

Guests caught up in the latest shutdown will receive a refund or an exchange.

“Guests with tickets to visit Shanghai Disneyland on and/or from October 31, 2022 may choose to visit the park on any other day within the next six months from the park reopening day,” the theme park stated on its website. “If you cannot visit the park in the next six months, you can obtain a refund.”

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NOTE: I did not bring the twit feed over.

 

[Seeker22]

The Chynese Hotel California. Lesson here: do not put yourself in a place you may not be able to get out of.

 

[Wildweasel]

Are they going to use the vaunted Chinese butt-swab Covid test? Paul Pelosi and his friend David will volunteer to help if they do.

 

[Seeker22]

Are they going to use the vaunted Chinese butt-swab Covid test? Paul Pelosi and his friend David will volunteer to help if they do.

Bring
Yo
Own
Hammer

 

[Dozdoats]

Chyna covid crackdown 2.0

 

[Griz3752]

An unorthodox methodology to boost sales if I've heard of one.

As I see the provision of said C19 docs as likely to consume some time, I'm guessing the internees will have to pay for food etc while awaiting release.

 

[pauldingbabe]

So are they mapping their entire population genome?

Wouldn't surprise me.

 

[Shadow]

Wow, if someone needed lessons in paranoia this should do it!

Shadow

 

[raven]

So are they mapping their entire population genome?

Wouldn't surprise me.

they are mapping the entire genome.
The Aliens are looking for specific for the ancestors of the Ruling galactic race that were either concealed here for their protection or banished here as punishment. There is some debate over that. However, a particular ancestor is sought in order to "unlock" (if that is even the correct idea) something (it isn't like they are saying).
The rest of the human population is just "in the way".

 

[pauldingbabe]

they are mapping the entire genome.
The Aliens are looking for specific for the ancestors of the Ruling galactic race that were either concealed here for their protection or banished here as punishment. There is some debate over that. However, a particular ancestor is sought in order to "unlock" (if that is even the correct idea) something (it isn't like they are saying).
The rest of the human population is just "in the way".

Well I'm ready to go when they are. I'll take one for the team!

Note: I'm totally not serious

 

[Seeker22]

they are mapping the entire genome.
The Aliens are looking for specific for the ancestors of the Ruling galactic race that were either concealed here for their protection or banished here as punishment. There is some debate over that. However, a particular ancestor is sought in order to "unlock" (if that is even the correct idea) something (it isn't like they are saying).
The rest of the human population is just "in the way".

They strongarmed Eisenhower into agreeing to let them harvest 100,000 people per year as per the Treaty of Greada. Treaty was redone by Bush senior and called Tau 9. They thought they could find who they were looking for in that group. Not so. Now millions are taken in most countries yearly and they are still searching. But the adrenochrome side hustle using all those stolen people still pays the bills.

 

[subnet]

they are mapping the entire genome.
The Aliens are looking for specific for the ancestors of the Ruling galactic race that were either concealed here for their protection or banished here as punishment. There is some debate over that. However, a particular ancestor is sought in order to "unlock" (if that is even the correct idea) something (it isn't like they are saying).
The rest of the human population is just "in the way".

 

[pauldingbabe]

Are they looking for Nephilim?

Could be known as Taltos?

 

[et2]

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So you’re saying my family doc is an … alien. LOL … I keep giving him $hit. At least he gets paid for it.

 

[Blacknarwhal]

So...does this mean David Icke was right about the Reptilians or do I need a better score card?

 

[Raggedyman]

The Chynese Hotel California . . . do not put yourself in a place you may not be able to get out of

"Relax," said the night man
"We are programmed to receive
You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave"​

 

[raven]

Well I'm ready to go when they are. I'll take one for the team!

Note: I'm totally not serious

I was promised I could fly one of their sporty little ships.
Not the big interstellar ones which was kind of a bummer. Just one of the little interplanetary sportsters.
Still cool but kind of like driving a Corvette in Kansas . . . no place to go.

 

[Raggedyman]

Are they looking for Nephilim?

BOOM!
the BABE . . .
always in the RIGHT PLACE at the RIGHT TIME
you can only clone so many woolly mammoths 'n then it gets kinda boring​

 

[raven]

Are they looking for Nephilim?

Could be known as Taltos?

well, with all the DNA effort and funding going into genealogy (wink,wink)
it sure seems like they are looking for something

 

[Raggedyman]

well, with all the DNA effort and funding going into genealogy (wink,wink)
it sure seems like they are looking for something

you know birdie . . . we're laughing about it . . . but quite actually I fully believe they ARE looking for something. who can say for certain WHAT that might be. as far as willing giving up your DNA to "ancestry.com" . . . ahhhh not NO but HELL NO

 

[raven]

you know birdie . . . we're laughing about it . . . but quite actually I fully believe they ARE looking for something. who can say for certain WHAT that might be. as far as willing giving up your DNA to "ancestry.com" . . . ahhhh not NO but HELL NO

i did mine long ago.
I never got corona . . . never got the vax . . . and survived.
apparently, I'm not what they were looking for.

 

[Seeker22]

"Relax," said the night man
"We are programmed to receive
You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave"​

Yeppers. That be the one of which I squeak.

 

[China Connection]

Worker exodus, Covid-19 lockdown in world’s largest iPhone factory hit Apple supply chain in China​

• An unknown number of workers have fled the iPhone production plant run by Foxconn Technology Group in Zhengzhou as Covid-19 cases flare
• At least 10 per cent of the global iPhone production capacity is affected by the situation in the Zhengzhou campus, one analyst said

Coco Feng in Beijing
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Published: 4:00pm, 31 Oct, 2022

An online video shows people with suitcases and bags leaving a Foxconn compound in Zhengzhou in central China’s Henan province on Saturday. Photo: Hangpai Xingyang via AP
An exodus of panicked workers, fearing Covid-19 lockdowns and infections in the world’s largest iPhone factory in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, could slow the production of Apple’s flagship device in the coming months.
Foxconn Technology Group, which runs the plant, promised on Sunday to help arrange transport for workers wanting to go back to their hometowns, after video clips widely circulating on social media showed some fleeing the compound on foot and walking in fields and on highways because public transport in the city was suspended as part of Covid-19 controls.
The factory in the capital of Henan province employs around 300,000 workers. Neither Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai Technology Group, nor the Zhengzhou government has disclosed how many workers are leaving or are in quarantine.

Covid-19 infections and complaints about living conditions have sent workers in Foxconn’s iPhone factory in Zhengzhou packing and fleeing. Photo: Hangpai Xingyang via AP
Foxconn has set up seven pickup points for workers leaving the campus, according to the company’s latest notice. Local authorities in other cities in Henan, where many Foxconn workers come from, have also rushed to arrange coaches to take people home.


A driver from the city of Jiaozuo, which borders Zhengzhou and makes up 3.5 per cent of Henan’s population, said the city has arranged four buses to shuttle between Foxconn and a local quarantine and reception centre. Another driver said three more buses were added on Sunday, taking back around 400 workers.
Henan Daily, a local official newspaper, quoted an unidentified person in charge of the Foxconn unit responsible for assembling the iPhone 14 series, saying that the plant is in desperate need for workers to support the current peak production season and has pleaded for support from factories in other parts of China.

Reuters on Monday cited an unidentified source “with direct knowledge of the matter” saying that Foxconn’s Zhengzhou plant could see its iPhone output hit by “up to 30 per cent” in November and the company is trying to mitigate the impact by shifting some orders to its plants in the southern city of Shenzhen.

At least 10 per cent of the global iPhone production capacity is affected by the situation in Foxconn’s Zhengzhou factory, Kuo Ming-chi, an analyst at TF International Securities who follows Apple’s supply chain, wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
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However, the incident has not changed his current forecast of iPhone shipments, he said, adding that he believes Foxconn’s production capacity “will gradually improve within a few weeks” with “limited impact” on iPhone shipments in the fourth quarter.

Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Since Monday, the Foxconn compound in Zhengzhou has gradually resumed services in dining halls, although employees are banned from sitting face-to-face.
The company also told employees on Sunday that the factory would “return to order” in four to five days, and workers who clock in every day would get bonuses, according to a report by Xinhuanghe, a media outlet under the state-run Jinan Daily News Group.

The Foxconn headquarters in New Taipei City, Taiwan. Photo: Bloomberg
This comes after the factory began to adopt a “closed-loop” production on October 13 and imposed further restrictions on workers around a week later, closing dining halls while requiring people to follow fixed commute routes between dormitories and their workplaces.

Since then, workers have flooded social media with complaints about living conditions and food quality, with many fearing a spread of Covid-19 in dorms and factories.
Foxconn has denied rumours that a large number of workers had contracted Covid-19, saying on Wednesday that there had been a small outbreak at the plant and the impact on operations was “controllable”.
Henan health authorities reported six confirmed cases with symptoms on Sunday, five of them located in Zhengzhou. Among 36 asymptomatic cases recorded, 35 were from Zhengzhou.

Shoppers lined up outside an Apple store in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on the launch day of the iPhone 14. Photo: Iris Deng
Zhengzhou city has imposed a semi-lockdown on its 10 million residents, requiring people in some areas to stay home and others to remain within their residential districts. From Friday evening through Saturday morning, the city government disinfected all public places and residential buildings.

Apple has continuously faced disruptions to its supply chain as a result of China’s strict “zero-Covid” policy.
A major two-month lockdown in the key manufacturing centre of Shanghai earlier this year, along with sporadic temporary closures of factories and transport links across the country, have repeatedly hurt the US giant’s production of key products from Mac computers to iPhones.
In April, Apple’s chief financial officer Luca Maestri said in an earnings call that Covid-19-related lockdowns and the global chip shortage could reduce the company’s revenue by up to US$8 billion in the June quarter.

Worker exodus from world’s largest iPhone factory hits Apple supply chain

An unknown number of workers have fled the iPhone production plant run by Foxconn Technology Group in Zhengzhou as Covid-19 cases flare.

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