'Please stay within the box': Shanghai Disneyland reopens with social distancing
by Alice Su, Los Angeles Times
May 26, 2020
4 minutes
SHANGHAI - The Little Mermaid was singing what everyone felt.
"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.
"I want to see, want to see them dancing," Ariel sang as an entranced crowd leaned forward, faces masked, Mickey Mouse ears swaying in rhythm.
It was the second week since the reopening of Shanghai Disneyland, the first Disney park to resume the fun amid the COVID-19 pandemic. After months of isolation, visitors took to the fantasy land with abandon, exchanging, for a time anyway, a world of disease, recession and political turmoil for a socially distanced delirium of bubbles,
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