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My daughter, fully vaccinated, is scheduled to return to Honolulu from San Francisco East Bay Area, on 1/08/22. She attends University of Hawaii at Manoa. They have already put the first 2 weeks of Spring semester on “fully remote.” Please let me know if you think it would behoove her to change her Southwest flight for 2 weeks out as well, or take her chances that her flight won’t be cancelled and she can return as planned? Thank you for any advice you have to offer.
Hi Camille.
We have no sense about further cancellations and they appear to be calming down. But of course we don’t have a crystal ball.
Aloha.
“Some Vermonters who are able to find antigen tests and then test positive are clogging up emergency rooms.
The emergency department at the Rutland Regional Medical Center has been overwhelmed with asymptomatic folks.” WCAX.com
Wait until 500 million test kits arrive in our hands.
“Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it.”
– Vaclav Havel
Wouldn’t prudent caution trump cest la vie?
“No one ever died poor underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
-attributed to PT Barnum (an astute observer of those who attribute truth to others’ quotes)
A fully vaccinated crew on one of our Navy ships is currently stranded at the port in Guantanamo Bay due to an outbreak of Covid. It’s time to acknowledge the importance of natural immunity in getting us out of this mess. Omicron is very mild and everyone who I know getting it has been vaccinated & boosted. It’s like a cold. Stop listening to the fear and panic driven media. I work in healthcare & the N95 masks must be properly fitted to even work correctly. Live life, exercise, get Vit D!
Spoken as authority, but not accurate in fact. Natural immunity from numerous scientific studies has been shown to help for those vaxed and boosted, but certainly not a cure all. Still too early to know how Omicron affects, though South Africa indicates that it’s spread is short lived. Caution and rudeness is not fear and panic. Still question why so many proclaimed health care workers are still un vaxed. This is a novel coronavirus, not a cold.
So what is medically sound to cut omicron and not politics?
1) travel – no one flies into or out of Hawaii or interisland without the booster.
2) close the bars at 7.00 pm as alcohol causes folks not to mask properly or distance
3) increase social distancing indoors
4) move to 24 hour testing on top of booster and stop partner program. Ensuring airlines arrange on airport while you wait testing for all flights in or out
5) prohibit quarantine in accommodation used by family or others.
RICH… Could you clarify #4 – don’t understand. Agree completely with your comment regarding 24 hour prior testing but sometimes it isn’t that easy, particularly with the “Trusted Partner” requirement in place. Thankfully, finally, both Walgreens and CVS’s in our state are offering Rapid Results Testing – previously, we had to drive 7 hours to get a test. But still, it’s a logistical nightmare for us as we ave to drive 7 hours day before our flight OR spend $350 in additional air fare.
Barbara, the Partner Program no longer serves a purpose. It merely drives up costs and makes 24 hour testing difficult. Before the vaccination option came in I would always fly DFW as AA have on airport partners with while you wait tests. As the wristband initiatives, airlines should be required to have on airport testing. Cutting the time between test and flying is crucial with omicron but currently on airport while you wait testing is expensive ($250) so work is needed there .