Say Goodbye to Disney; Customer Tries to Return 150 Liters of Sanitizer and Thousands of Toilet Paper Rolls; and Can Vitamin D Help You Fight Against COVID-19?
Until at least 2021, anyway. Thanks to social distancing measures, Disney’s theme parks may not reopen because of the impact on profitability.
In other words, Disney may not open again until a coronavirus vaccine has been found. In April, the Walt Disney Company announced that it had stopped paying 100,000 of its staff members to save $500 million a month.
UBS analyst John Hodulik told The Sun, “The economic recession plus the need for social distancing, new health precautions, the lack of travel and crowd aversion are likely to make this business [Disney] less profitable until there is a widely available vaccine.”
He added that the parks could “regain their recent operating cadence in less than 18 months, coinciding with the earliest expectations for a widely available vaccine for COVID-19.”
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John-Paul Drake is the director at Drakes Supermarkets in South Australia. He recently uploaded a video to YouTube where he shared a story about how one customer massively hoarded toilet paper and sanitizer and tried to return it to no avail.
Drake explained, “I had my first customer yesterday who said he wanted to get a refund on 150 packets of 32-pack toilet paper and 150 units of one-liter sanitizer!”
“I told him [shows middle finger] that. That is the sort of person that is causing the problem in the whole country,” he said.
He went on to explain how his stores had to place product limits. These were on certain items so that more people could have access.
“If everyone had just bought the things that they’d needed for their immediate short-term, we would be fine,” said Drake. “But the reality is, we’ve had so many people hoarding products and buying products that they’re never gonna use.”
And how did one man happen to buy so much toilet paper? In a LinkedIn post, Drake said, “He had a team of people buying one of each across all of our stores!”
The man (who’d obviously gotten some bad finance advice) tried to return the toilet paper after eBay shut down his store. But Drake gave him a resounding “No.”
On “Paul Murray Live,” Drake said, “One of the big guys said we’re not gonna take any more refunds on toilet paper and sanitizer, and we made a pact to do that as well.”
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Scientists are investigating the correlation between vitamin D levels and survival rates for coronavirus victims.
At the University of Granada in Spain, 200 COVID-19 patients were involved in a ten-week trial to see if the vitamin could help them fight off the illness.
In another study by Trinity College Dublin, they found that adults who took vitamin D saw a 50-percent fall in chest infections.
Dr. Jenna Macciochi of the University of Sussex said,
“If you are deficient in vitamin D, you are three to four times more likely to catch a cold. It therefore makes sense that a viral respiratory infection like COVID-19 would be worse if you were vitamin D deficient,” she explained.
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