Deutsche Welle’s footage of the empty entrance plaza of Shanghai Disneyland as the PA system broadcasts a message that the park is “temporarily closed” for “prevention and control of the disease outbreak” is indeed “straight out of a Hollywood horror movie,” as the caption says.
This announcement at Shanghai’s Disneyland is straight out of a Hollywood horror movie ? pic.twitter.com/cblhbVhvyj
— DW News (@dwnews) January 27, 2020
(Image: Breathe Healthy, modified; Jeremy Thompson, CC BY, modified)
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