COVID case visited Dreamworld in Queensland

[Naazon]

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Dreamworld has confirmed that a positive COVID-19 case visited the theme park on Friday July 16 from 10:30am until 2:00pm. 

Queensland Health has advised that any guests who visited Dreamworld during that time should monitor their health and, if they develop the mildest of COVID-19 symptoms, get tested. 

Dreamworld team members who came into direct contact with the positive guest are being identified, asked to isolate immediately and to present a negative test before returning to work.

"Dreamworld's number one priority is the health and safety of guests and team members, and the park operates under a Queensland Health approved COVID safe plan," Dreamworld said in a statement.

This is the Delta strain I believe also, the highly infectious strain. Will be interesting to see what comes from this.

 

Edit: Source: ABC Live Blog - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-23/covid-live-updates-blog-sydney-lockdown-victoria-restrictions/100316238

Edited July 23, 2021 by Naazon

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

"Catch Delta, LIVE at Dreamworld!"...is no longer an appropriate marketing slogan for musical performance.

[New display name]

She was named Delta because she has 4 dads.  True.

[bladex]

keep that airport open keep letting people in from Sydney and Victoria COVID HQ....

Edited July 24, 2021 by bladex

[themagician]

Dreamworld will be closing at 2pm today due to lockdown 

[Rabbit2014]

2 hours ago, themagician said:

Dreamworld will be closing at 2pm today due to lockdown 

Village parks from 3pm 

[Im Hungry]

Don't know how long ago it's been but Dreamworld has since been removed from the Casual/Low Risk Contact exposure site list.

https://www.qld.gov.au/health/conditions/health-alerts/coronavirus-covid-19/current-status/contact-tracing

[LORD_Noodle]

Always one bad apple that spoils the bunch I reckon the fine for her and her tradie partner should have been a lot more …….

 

[rappa]

Surely she’s lost her job out of this and if so that’s probably pretty good punishment enough. 

[aussienetman]

What do we think? Lockdown lifting / ease of restrictions or business as usual tomorrow for SEQ?

[red dragin]

Probably two or three days more. Only because of how quickly Victoria blew up with the newest outbreak. They'll be nervous about opening up too soon. 

Edited August 7, 2021 by red dragin

[themagician]

I’m expecting another week, maybe even two, just to be sure. We can’t have a NSW or Victoria incident occur 

[Spotty]

I think another week at least, just to really make sure we are ontop of things. At least all the cases in the last 2 days have been linked and in quarantine. As much as I'd love restrictions to ease off a bit, I'd rather another week now than end up with a potential situation like Sydney.

[New display name]

No need for lock down on the Gold Coast.  Not 1 community case.

[red dragin]

12 hours ago, New display name said:

No need for lock down on the Gold Coast.  Not 1 community case.

Spoke too soon. 

[Brad2912]

Lockdown over. Parks open again from tomorrow with masks as per prior to lockdown 

[themagician]

Dreamworld and Topgolf reopen tomorrow. The rest of the VRTP won’t reopen until Friday, with reduced hours until the end of the month. All the parks will now be closing at 3:30pm every day.

[Brad2912]

Interesting decision

[themagician]

I’d say they are also thinking that there will be another lockdown and are holding off just in case 

[Brad2912]

I just think they’re savings $$. They know it will be really quiet so it’s not worth the operational costs to open the gate. Probably have data from the first couple of days attendance and revenue post-lockdown last time around, and a cost/benefit analysis shows opening just isn’t worth it 

[red dragin]

School's back, it's weekdays straight after a lockdown. Will be quiet. 

As Brad said, cheaper to stay closed, tidy up, test rides and be ready for a likely busier first weekend post lockdown. 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

17 hours ago, themagician said:

Dreamworld and Topgolf reopen tomorrow. The rest of the VRTP won’t reopen until Friday, with reduced hours until the end of the month. All the parks will now be closing at 3:30pm every day.

 

16 hours ago, Brad2912 said:

Interesting decision

Not really that interesting at all - to be honest, its a no brainer - as said, it's quiet.

The other thing overlooked here is something anyone visiting on an offpeak weekday will know - after 3pm, you start seeing groups enter the park in school uniform - Mum and Dad have picked up the kids from the local state school and come to the park to spend an hour or two on rides. By closing at 3:30, they avoid these extra groups entering the park - and given the likely low-spend by these regular afternoon attendees, it really doesn't cost them anything by losing those groups, and it also reduces the potential for both entry of infection, and spread of that infection too... especially given how quickly delta spread through multiple schools to lead us to now.

[New display name]

1 hour ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

 

Not really that interesting at all -

The only really interesting thing here is the white elephant sitting in the corner.  The Queensland Government loaned the parks a lot of money so they would stay open.  You now have employees sitting at home with no income and unable to ask for financial help because the lock down has been lifted.

You have some management posting online the 5-star meals they make each night while a lot of Village staff would be on struggle street.  

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

I had overlooked that part - my comments only referred to the shorter operating hours that were announced.

You are right of course - remaining closed without a lockdown order (after screaming so loudly to "open the borders" earlier) is incredibly out of touch - and seems like perhaps they canned all their rosters with the expectation nothing would change this week.

5 stars is extraordinarily generous.

Edited August 8, 2021 by DaptoFunlandGuy

[New display name]

People who are paying for passes are already asking questions.   "Will passes be extended for the 2 weeks of closure"