Worries of coronavirus and other issues matter little to enthusiastic visitors of reopened Shanghai Disneyland. But there are reminders of reality.
“I want to be where the people are!” she cried, sweeping an arm through the air as jets of water shot up, shimmering in front of a pink pastel castle.
Before the pandemic, Chen, a tech worker in Shanghai, would escape to Disneyland once or twice a week. Now she was back at last, bobbing up and down in Mickey Mouse knee socks, a Donald Duck hairpin, an Aristocats backpack, and a surgical mask. She usually dressed up even more, she said. It was one of the many new rules for reopening. More than three months had passed since Shanghai Disneyland shut its doors on Jan. 25, following nationwide orders to close public spaces and isolate people at home.Only after months of strict social distancing, contact tracing, testing, and quarantines did China’s infection and death numbers dwindle to the point where authorities deemed it safe to loosen restrictions.
Many of the visitors over the weekend were not families with children, but young Shanghainese couples dressed up to take photos for social media. One man stood still in front of the Disney castle, holding a phone in the air like a human tripod as his girlfriend walked away and looked back, flipping her hair in time with the selfie timer.
A worrisome spot in the park was also one of the most popular: an enclosed theater in Fantasyland, where roughly two hundred people were being allowed in each hour for a 20-minute live-action “Frozen” singalong. There was no parade or fireworks at the end of the day. But there was an outdoor performance at 4:30 pm, Aladdin and Jasmine singing on a raised platform in front of the castle as small clusters of people spaced out by handrails watched from a distance.
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