235 thoughts on “Closures, Furloughs and Terminations Explode in Hawaii”

  1. Imagine if campaign financiers had foreign investors stacked up waiting to buy top resort properties at Covid induced sales prices?

  2. This is incredibly sad. I don’t understand why the top guns at the airlines and hotel chains aren’t pounding down doors to make these governmental “leaders” hear them out and take some action. I just don’t believe a virus with a 99.9% cure rate needs to cause this much damage to people’s lives and to the Hawaiian economy. It’s not all about vacationing in paradise, it’s about survival for those who live there. Open it up! Let everyone make their own choices and stop this stupid 14-day quarantine.

  3. You boys are on fire!

    Without a doubt you are providing the best information and context on this human tragedy. Better than the statewide media with many more resources. Well done.

    As others have said, it is shocking how poorly the state has responded every step of the way. Ige is making truth of that old saying, “Nero fiddles while Rome burns”. Day after day, month after month.

    It is disheartening to read the above list, especially seeing so many from our Big Island.

  4. These number are stunning and very sad and highlights the need for Hawaii to diversify their economy. With many jobs now able to be done remotely perhaps Hawaii could work towards attracting those who could work remote and also provide training to residents.

  5. Find a way to open to tourism and economic improvement will return. Stay restricted and it will only get worse. Pretty simple.

  6. What the government of Hawaii has done to essentially destroyed the tourist industry and those who work in the industry is a travesty. I hope voters remember when they cast their votes for the next group of representatives. My wife and I cancelled our flight on United and a one week stay on Maui for the last week of October this year due to the continued lockdowns in the state. Now looking to spend our vacation funds at a different location as well as seriously consider to never visit Hawaii again. It’s too bad as I feel for the locals who livelihoods are tied to tourism.

  7. WOW! Build temporary hospitals with staff from the mainland- send over the Mercy Ship and get on with it- Open up the economy fully – 88 deaths reported TODAY (9/8/20) is sad, but ECONOMIC devastation with resulting depression, suicide, drug overdose, abuse resulting in Death is going to be WAY worse than 88 Covid deaths (if that is an accurate death toll due to Covid or other comordibities who knows for sure, as each state records/reports data differently) Don’t believe me? Do the research and look at the stats of Unemployment devastation on mental and physical health:
    “Research by Maragaretha Voss and her colleagues in Sweden indicated that higher death rates of previously-unemployed individuals (followed over a 24-year period) were related to higher rates of suicide, accidents, cancer and cardiovascular disease. The fact that these health risks continue for 24 years suggests that unemployment is a potentially dangerous life event”…this is just one quote from one study…
    SOOOO Sad for all Hawaiians:(…

    1. Sadly, it isn’t just Hawaii facing devastating unemployment and it’s economic and physical implications. MANY mainlanders are facing or will be facing the same thing. We are just seeing the tip of the iceberg. It will be FORTY YEARS before anyone knows the truth of what this is all about. All the important decision makers will be long dead.

  8. Oh my goodness, these numbers break my heart. Each number corresponds to a person, and that person to a family, and on and on. We love Hawaii so much, and we miss it terribly. We will be back to support the travel economy as soon as possible! Thank you for bringing us the Hawaii news, even when it’s this sad.

    Mahalo, Rita N.

  9. Thank you for allowing me to comment. Your govenor has let this happen and should be held accountable. If you find this to be a personal attact your not going to helpyour cause. My hard earned dollars have wanted to be spent in Hawaii for months. It will not happen now.

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