First thing that people need to be aware of is they are finding that the
virus dies after about 5 minutes on most surfaces, so it may not be necessary to disinfect everything between every guest.
Here are changes that I think are likely, at least until a vaccine is available:
- Finding Nemo Submarines will be completely closed, possibly other attractions where mass quantities of people are in small enclosed spaces like this, but it is the main one I can think of. I honestly wonder if Disney will just completely close them and re-purpose the land for something else, given how much land it takes up. It has been in the rumor mill for a while anyway.
- Shows, if they run, will be run at half capacity or less. Unfortunately Disney is going to need the shows, because my guess is they are going to have to heavily depend on locals for the bulk of their business for the next year or so.
- Most attractions will probably not run at full capacity. They may keep all ride vehicles running, but say at Pirates they may put guests in every other row, then the next time the boat loads, guests will load into the rows that were empty on the previous trip. This will give the virus time to die on the surfaces between trips. On attractions where that strategy won't work, then they load every other vehicle, spacing it so that each vehicle has a ride cycle where it is empty.
- Virtual Queues whenever the standby lines are over a certain length
- Attractions with FP will likely not have any standby queues and only offer FPs, this would allow Disney to control the number of people in the queue at any given time and use the entire standby queue to allow for more distancing.
- There will be a lot more janitorial staffing
- It will be highly likely that Disney will be taking temperatures of everyone entering. Luckily, this really doesn't have to be done individually, there are group thermal scanning, which can help them figure out if people are needed for secondary scanning. Alternatively, they could modify the metal detectors to take temperatures at the same time as going through. But I am sure there will be some form of monitoring in place.
- A lot more hand sanitizers everywhere, including in queues
- We will see reduced overall park capacity as well
- The parks, resorts and Downtown Disney becoming completely cashless, as cash is a major germ carrier and one of the surfaces the virus doesn't die on as quickly apparently.
I am sure some of these won't come to be and there will probably be other measures, but I think most of these are highly likely to happen.