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1. Linds says

   May 8, 2020 at 11:58 am

   Do you know if this means children as well? I don’t know if I want to take my toddler for a while anyway, but I’m certain hes not going to put up with a mask for more than 2 minutes.

2. Alyson says

   May 8, 2020 at 10:10 pm

   Ditto on the kid question

3. Lorraine Pollachek says

   May 9, 2020 at 11:58 am

   To Linds, Alyson, and anyone else considering visiting WDW with young children/toddlers: As the mother of a now grown son who began visiting WDW before he was even walking, I have an observation and a suggestion.

   Observation: Even without factoring in WDW and other highly populated places, there is at present no telling how long we are going to be wearing face coverings once we are able to go out again.

   Suggestions: Unless you want to stay home with your children until they are 6 YO or whatever age they might be, now is the time to start training your children to wear a mask. Starting with however long you think they will tolerate it (5 min, 10 min, 15 min, etc.), encourage them to wear a mask. Have them play in a mask and you wear yours, too, a few times per day for gradually increasing periods of time, so they will gradually become accustomed to the mask. If you don’t already have them, go online and stock up on reuseable, washable straws so your children will not feel that they can’t even have a drink with their mask on. I think you will likely have to remove your masks when dining anyway, so that should not be an issue.

   For parents of more than one children, you might consider this: Do your children share and trade off well? You can probably get masks in varying colors and designs (even various WDW characters) and each child can choose one any time you have to go out. If your children fight over everything you might consider choosing masks of one color or design so everyone wears the same thing. Or perhaps choose a couple different colors/designs and purchase one of each for each child if that is not a financial hardship. Use a permanent marker or embroider their initials on or in their masks so that each child can wear whichever they choose on any given day but can only wear his/her own masks. If your children have the same first initial, write their first name on the INSIDE of their masks so that strangers cannot address them by name and lure them away should you turn your back. Or, again using permanent markers, let each child select a color and color code their masks.

   I’m no expert and I’m not trying to tell anyone what to do. Just observations and suggestions to make it easier for young children to adjust to wearing a mask. I’m 61 YO and I know 2 things well: (1) I’m dying to get to go back to WDW (I missed the F&W Festival last year and Epcot is calling my name); and (2) I know I, too, am uncomfortable wearing a mask and being claustrophobic does not help.

   Good luck to everyone. Stay well and stay home until we’re told we can begin going out again. Hope to see you at WDW sometime this year!

4. Michelle D says

   May 9, 2020 at 1:38 pm

   From everything I’ve read with FL state guidelines, those under 2 are not required to wear masks as it poses a health hazard for them.

   Notice From the CDC stating those under 2 or anyone unable to remove the msks themselves should not wear one:
   https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/diy-cloth-face-coverings.html

5. MegB says

   May 9, 2020 at 2:04 pm

   When they say cast members will be wearing masks/face coverings, does this mean Cinderella will be wearing a mask? I mean I get it, I just don’t know if I want my 4 year old having that visual 😢

6. Carla says

   May 9, 2020 at 2:08 pm

   Wondering how wearing a face mask in a restaurant is going to work… hmm. Thinking of postponing my Disney trip until well into 2021…

7. kathy Leners says

   May 9, 2020 at 5:02 pm

   do you think when the parks reopen that Ride of the Resistance will go the fast pass route. you can’t social distance when you let hundreds of people into Hollywood studios at opening so they can get a boarding pass. Fast passes seem the only logical thing to do, and you limit the number of fast passes given out every hour.

8. Jim Anthony says

   May 9, 2020 at 7:35 pm

   Agree with Carla. With have to keep taking mask off and on for eating and drinking. That will be very tough. Will probably wait until 2021 with a vaccine.

9. Amber says

   May 9, 2020 at 8:21 pm

   In Shanghai the rule is face characters do not wear masks, but must keep appropriate distance. So Cinderella won’t be wearing a mask. But right now this is just Disney Springs, so the characters won’t be there anyway.

10. Jim says

    May 9, 2020 at 9:37 pm

    I agree Carla. See ya soon, in 2021.

11. A O M says

    May 10, 2020 at 9:44 am

    WDW and Covid-19 Sageguards Do Not Intergrate!

    See Ya when all of this is OVER!

12. M O A says

    May 10, 2020 at 8:23 pm

    Lets hope we are back to normal in 2021 !

13. Douglas E Cobb says

    May 11, 2020 at 12:39 pm

    yep I doubt I go back for awhile my AP is good for 10 yrs Have not activated it yet! DVC membership well thats a different story I will be paying for a dead horse for maint, dues. I do not want to ware a mask! So guess I will be vacationing at home till this is over!

14. Old guy says

    May 11, 2020 at 4:57 pm

    I wont be back till masks are put away and this thing is in the history books. For the money and it is going to go up, no way. I dont want that kind of Disney memory. Those pictures in Shanghai look like too much reality, not enough fantasy. Very un-Disney no matter how you dress it up.

15. Lynn says

    May 11, 2020 at 8:41 pm

    Our state has said that children under the age of 2 should not wear a face mask….so whether Florida and/or Disney say the same I don’t know.