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A Day In The Life Featuring Michael Kay
An Internet Novella
Monday morning August 16, 2021 at 7:59 AM Eastern--Michael's life is normal (well, Michael normal). He has put together a 40 minute DCL cruise video he thinks is awesome. One problem, Michael has only read the "unvaccinated" boarding procedures which explains that DCL is testing "all" passengers. It's bad communication on DCL's part, it should have clearly said "all unvaccinated" passengers, but it is what it is.
Michael had no reason to read the "vaccinated" boarding information on DCL's website because: 1) he is not vaccinated and has no CDC card to upload so the information is useless to him personally and he has no curiosity about things that don't impact him directly even if his viewers might be interested; and 2) Michael assumes that vaccinated people are getting the same boarding information because surely "all" passengers means "all" passengers, but it does not.
Unknown to Michael, his lack of information is going to ruin his plan to try to hoodwink his audience and WDW about his vaccination status. On his way to the port Michael explains to his audience that DCL tests "all" passengers. Michael figures he can hoodwink his audience and Disney about his vax status and cover up his nonstop flouting of WDW park rules regarding masks and vax status by blending with the boarding vaxxed passengers who he mistakenly assumes must also be tested at the port.
One minute later, at 8:00 AM, Michael releases his video to the Internet beast, unwittingly confessing to going maskless at WDW for weeks while unvaccinated. Very soon after that many of his viewers know that Michael violated Disney's park rules and thus begins a deluge of negative comments. In a minute Michael's world has turned upside down.
Michael then makes two horrendous decisions: First, Michael decides to edit his video to try to hide the evidence. That plan fails, the whole video lives on the Internet. Not helping Michael's cover up is brother Dave whose video STILL shows the port testing sequence -- not that deleting it would do anything, but one can only wonder how Michael expected to pull off "the big lie" if his brother is still showing the evidence.
Second, and even worse, Michael decides to blame Disney/Inspire/the port for giving him bad information while at the port. The problem with this explanation is that the video clearly shows Michael babbling about the "bad information" while in the car on the way to the port before there is any interaction with port staff. Michael thought that he could push the big lie because he edited his video, but he forgets that Dave is (annoyingly) showing the same thing in his video (as usual) and he forgets that the Internet remembers everything.
Michael shows no respect for his audience to whom he lied, no respect for WDW to whom he lied and whose park rules he violated, no respect for the general population he endangered, and no respect for himself as he endangered himself. It was a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day for Michael. Michael is probably second guessing himself: what if I had just read the other column on the DCL website, or the email DCL sent to me, so that I could consider that information and concoct a better lie?
An Internet Novella
Monday morning August 16, 2021 at 7:59 AM Eastern--Michael's life is normal (well, Michael normal). He has put together a 40 minute DCL cruise video he thinks is awesome. One problem, Michael has only read the "unvaccinated" boarding procedures which explains that DCL is testing "all" passengers. It's bad communication on DCL's part, it should have clearly said "all unvaccinated" passengers, but it is what it is.
Michael had no reason to read the "vaccinated" boarding information on DCL's website because: 1) he is not vaccinated and has no CDC card to upload so the information is useless to him personally and he has no curiosity about things that don't impact him directly even if his viewers might be interested; and 2) Michael assumes that vaccinated people are getting the same boarding information because surely "all" passengers means "all" passengers, but it does not.
Unknown to Michael, his lack of information is going to ruin his plan to try to hoodwink his audience and WDW about his vaccination status. On his way to the port Michael explains to his audience that DCL tests "all" passengers. Michael figures he can hoodwink his audience and Disney about his vax status and cover up his nonstop flouting of WDW park rules regarding masks and vax status by blending with the boarding vaxxed passengers who he mistakenly assumes must also be tested at the port.
One minute later, at 8:00 AM, Michael releases his video to the Internet beast, unwittingly confessing to going maskless at WDW for weeks while unvaccinated. Very soon after that many of his viewers know that Michael violated Disney's park rules and thus begins a deluge of negative comments. In a minute Michael's world has turned upside down.
Michael then makes two horrendous decisions: First, Michael decides to edit his video to try to hide the evidence. That plan fails, the whole video lives on the Internet. Not helping Michael's cover up is brother Dave whose video STILL shows the port testing sequence -- not that deleting it would do anything, but one can only wonder how Michael expected to pull off "the big lie" if his brother is still showing the evidence.
Second, and even worse, Michael decides to blame Disney/Inspire/the port for giving him bad information while at the port. The problem with this explanation is that the video clearly shows Michael babbling about the "bad information" while in the car on the way to the port before there is any interaction with port staff. Michael thought that he could push the big lie because he edited his video, but he forgets that Dave is (annoyingly) showing the same thing in his video (as usual) and he forgets that the Internet remembers everything.
Michael shows no respect for his audience to whom he lied, no respect for WDW to whom he lied and whose park rules he violated, no respect for the general population he endangered, and no respect for himself as he endangered himself. It was a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day for Michael. Michael is probably second guessing himself: what if I had just read the other column on the DCL website, or the email DCL sent to me, so that I could consider that information and concoct a better lie?
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