Bob Iger has been appointed to the California COVID-19 business recovery task force, and Thomas Mazloum (Senior Vice President of Walt Disney World Resort) has been appointed to the equivalent group in Orange County, Florida.
In an interview with KABC, Iger spoke about the obstacles he sees in getting people back to work.
“Clearly, making people feel safe from getting the virus is the biggest obstacle and it’s clearly complicated,” Iger said. “It’s not just about — as far as we know — social distancing. It’s about taking a number of steps, implementing a number of procedures to make sure that people feel safe.”
One of those procedures will be increased hygiene, Iger said, “but it’s likely that we’re going to need some mass testing, at scale, and some form of contact tracing as well so that we can identify people who have been exposed or people who have had the virus and may be of harm to others.”
Those initiatives are needed in the absence of therapeutic medicine or a vaccine, which months is months to a year away, Iger said.
The Walt Disney Company has a vested interest in business recovery in California and Florida which would enable them to re-open Disneyland and Walt Disney World when the time is right. When the parks re-open it is likely there will be changes made, with reduced crowds and other restrictions put into place.
