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Thanks again BOH.
I have to get 21 people. Most have never traveled and, even though they may be delayed upon arrival, I’d rather be able to have them bypass Safe Travels if they don’t want to deal with it.
That’s ok, right?
Mahalo,
Rod
Hi Rod.
The state’s website says for example, “The negative test result must be uploaded onto Safe Travels or printed out prior to departure and hard copy in hand when arriving in Hawaii.”
So it appears exemption proof can just be presented on arrival. Do check the state website or contact their help desk if needed be. https://hawaiicovid19.com/travel/.
Should anything go wrong doing it this way however it would result in a quarantine mess.
Aloha.
The Honorable Governor Ige:
“You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.”
― Kelli Jae Baeli, Crossing Paths
Thank you.
And as on who obviously doesn’t believe in the Gov. putting safety and his residents paramount in his decisions:
“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead” – Thomas Paine
I certainly make no comment regarding whether Governor Ige puts the safety of his residents in his decisions or not. I assume he does.
I merely point out that his decisions, whether they put safety and his residents as paramount or otherwise, do not appear to be working out very well.
As we write, COVID remains uncontrolled. Boosters are not proving to assist in the effort.
But in that he is a politician, I fully understand the imperative he be viewed as solving the problem.
That is not the message in the rest of the world. I live in Canada. We listen to US coverage of the pandemic and are appalled at what the American public is being told. There is a reason you have the highest case and death rate. It is because politics and public health issues are confused. How is wearing a mask a political issue? Are wearing pants in public a political issue? Is wearing a seat belt? No just common sense. Your anecdotal evidence doesn’t invalidate the science no matter how much
Good Day PETER W
I think some of the answer to your post lies with that despite what the media may convey, Americans at the grassroots level still have a bit of independence in their spirit. Deep down many of us chaff a tad being mandated to do anything. Even science, and especially the conflicting science of COVID, must bend to this.
Experience tells us the quickest way to dissuade a free man from doing something is to demand he do it. Sadly, our politicians seemingly forgot this.
Peter could have also mentioned the requirements for all U.S. citizens during WW II when we had a very visible enemy. Americans were asked to conserve, to grow their own vegetables, to restrain from using metals vital to the war effort, and on the west coast to black cloth their windows at night to prevent enemy targeting.
In this battle with a microscopic enemy too much to follow basic public health advice. Indeed the country has morphed from the Greatest Generation to the Whining Generation
That is true HAYWARD, that independent streak can be a good thing or it can also be a willingness to “cut of your nose to spite your face”. I’m guessing America’s ‘greatest generations would not have politicized this the way we have. Of course they didn’t have the Internet to spread misinformation so who knows?
Good Day JOHNW
Yes indeed.
A true sword has two sharp edges. One faces the foe; the other faces oneself.
As to the greatest generation’s response? I cannot say with certainty. But I do know well the nature my parents and their peers who were of that generation. From that knowledge I believe they would be appalled by the actions of our government and certain members of our citizenry as regards Covid. I recall them more akin a pride of lions than a herd of sheep.
HEYWARD, It’s an interesting speculation as to what the Greatest Generation would have done with the Internet. There probably would have been Facebook pages saying Pearl Harbor was staged!…. to your point about sheep, there’s always going to be people following some conspiracy theorists…as we have seen.
Well you’re right HeyWard, more people should be getting boosted…sad how misinformation and political theater has tossed a roadblock on that… but the simple fact that Hawaii has had so many fewer deaths per capita then other states pretty much proves that Hawaii’s policies saved a lot of lives. Dying or losing a loved one is a big deal. It’s really all that counts.
The states that had the highest death rates had the highest levels of unvaccinated and elderly. Add to that the fact that winter weather drives everyone indoors to spread/share their germs and you can understand why places with temperate or tropical climates do better. It has very little to do with Hawaii’s policies and more to do with luck and good weather.
Fair amount of misinformation and conjecture here about the vaccination’s. The hospitalizations are being particularly misrepresented. The vast majority of serious COVID cases are unvaxxed. The vaxxed in the hospitals are often there for other reasons and have tested positive. The very rare vaxxed death has other contributing factors. By and large vaxxed cases are way less serious then unvaxxed cases. No frontline medical worker (hero) will dispute any of this.
“Double vaxxed and boosted”… I’m double vaxxed -but not due for my booster till March (6 months after last vax). I’m assuming I don’t need a booster to travel to the islands before my booster is due? Or has Omicron changed all that… ? Thanks for clarifying.
Hi Trasea.
We will need to wait for clarification once the booster requirement details are announced.
Aloha.
OMG the sky is falling! I was working on Oahu as a travel nurse when the initial Covid wave hit. I have also worked in Ketchikan (also an island)…only 1 critical access hospital on the whole island (4 ICU beds). At least Hawaii has access to many hospitals within a 30-45 minute flight. I also just got off a cruise that visited 4 island nations whose leaders have more sense than Ige. Now, I am scheduled to fly into Kona on the 23 to begin working at KCH. Looks like I won’t be vaxed in time.
The vaccines are junk, most everyone I know who’s sick with covid are double vac’d or vac’d with a booster. Some vac’d are very sick like they’ve never been vac’d where others I know who are not vac’d have no symptoms at all.
The government is so heavily invested in protecting big pharma that they cannot come out and tell us the truth or big pharma would go bankrupt.
Requiring a booster is just another ploy to get federal dollars and another attempt to limit travel to the islands.
Careful there, Richard. That’s a 5 yard penalty and loss of down for failure to obey the narrative.
The vaccines were never made to stop you getting sick. They were made to reduce the risk of being hospitalized or dying. How this is not known to some after 2 years is beyond me.
Peter W. That’s absolutely not true. There are many, many clips of Biden, the CDC director and Kamala stating, “The vaccine WILL protect you from getting the virus”. It only changed after so many vaccinated people were getting sick. There is also nothing proving the vaccinated have reduced symptoms. So far, everyone I know who’s been vaccinated who caught the virus have said they have never been so sick. On the flip side, those I know who aren’t vaccinated have all said it’s mild.
Kimberly, I’m surprised to read your entry, as my experience has been the exact opposite of yours. Every single person I know who’s been vaccinated has not gotten the virus (including me). The only friends I know who caught Covid were unvaxxed. Thankfully, all have pulled through it. Many of them now say they wish they had gotten the vaccine.
Exactly my experience too Trasea and many others. Simple fact is the vast majority of deaths now are unvaccinated, the few vaccinated that are being hospitalized are experiencing shorter stays in the hospital and generally not advancing to the ICU.
The vaccines work very well at reducing the severity of Covid. Somehow people have taken the few severe breakthrough cases that are severe and tried to say they are the norm. It’s simply not true.
Over the Christmas Holiday my Daughter and Son in-law both double vac’d both caught covid. She was very ill he had no symptoms.
Nurse customer of ours was in yesterday her favorite uncle passed two weeks ago with covid. He was double vac’d with booster, but was over weight, diabetic, smoker fighting cancel.
So what really killed him was his lifestyle covid just pushed him over the edge.
That’s absolutely not true Trasea. Those stories that hospitals are filled with unvaxxed Covid patients are exactly that: STORIES. Finally the CDC published the truth about who is getting sick: everyone.
MJ, what I stated above was my experience, and yes, it is absolutely true. Everyone I know that’s been vaxed, has not gotten Covid. (I also know some unvaxed who’ve not gotten Covid.) But all those I know who got Covid, were not vaxed! Every single one. Sorry if that disrupts your paradigm.
Kimberly with all due respect No one has ever said you CANNOT get the virus if you get vaccinated. Not one. Funny part about Fox news? 100% compliance with their mandatory vaccination to work.
There is absolutely tons of proof that those vaccinated who have gotten a break thru infection are not dying nor suffering terrible sickness. Again follow real science.
BTW Supreme Court just ruled against employers requiring Covid vaccination in order to work, except for healthcare workers. That sends a clear message about overreach. The pyramid is starting to fall…
Probably because of the following statement by the President on national television:
“If you’re vaccinated, you’re not going to be hospitalized, you’re not going to be in an ICU unit, and you are not going to die.
…
the various shots that people are getting now cover that. You’re OK. You’re not going to — you’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”
– CNN Town Hall, July 21, 2021.
see the context
Context
During the same public appearance, Biden also stated, accurately, that vaccinated people are less likely to catch the virus than unvaccinated people and, if they do catch it, are less likely to get sick.
None of what you said is actually true.
The vax does nothing to stop omicron. Nothing. In fact after a couple weeks it has negative efficacy. So how is forcing a third shot going to help with hospital overcrowding? It won’t. If they would allow early therapeutics that have been proven it would be a big help. And in any case hospitalizations are way down with omicron.
Carl
That’s because COVID patients only go when the hospital is the last resort. By then it’s too late. My brother runs a large respiratory therapy department at a major California hospital verifies this. Those who come in early are treated with those other options
Hi,
It’s getting confusing.
So, I have to send a (civilian) crew to Oahu next month to do a service on the military bases there.
Do they have to be vaccinated? Or is there some kind of test that can be done instead?
We can deal with any quarantines.
Thank you,
Rod
Hi Rod.
The 72 hour PCR test remains an option instead of vaccination at this time.
Aloha.
Thank you BOH.
I should have asked – Is going through the Portal required or can they just show up at the airport, with Vac card or timely PCR?
Thank you,
Rod
Hi Rod.
By all means, do the state’s Hawaii Safe Travels website, and upload your documents. You’ll save yourself a lot of trouble and may even find a Pre-Clear bracelet from the airline to let you skip the lines on arrival.
You run a business and you don’t know the answers to this? I am going to guess that on base your going to have to go thru strict testing daily if not vaccinated. Here is not the place you should be asking this question
I’ll never visit again. Sleep peacefully USS Arizona, “Nob Hill “neighborhood.”
A Hawaiian vacation is looking less and less likely for us :0( At least not in the foreseeable future.
How about the citizens of the Islands as stated they were the biggest carriers.
Our family is triple unvaxxed. We will be traveling to another state that isn’t misguided. Sad to see what has happened to Hawaii – maybe people will vote the “right” way with this next election.
Know what lady? I deleted most of my comment. Please do stay away from Hawaii. You do realize it’s a spec in the middle of the ocean 3000 miles away from the next closest hospitals? You are sadly the misguided one. It will catch up to you at some point so I hope you change your un triple vaccinated mind and do the right thing
Jennifer: 16
Paul: 2
What that means to me JW is the tourists that lean to self righteous fingerpointing may be staying away. That’s a good thing. I don’t think anyone here has a problem with a larger percentage of respectful understanding tourists coming here and the angry complainers going elsewhere. Most of Hawaii doesn’t want a reboot of last summer. Hawaii is still the land of Aloha, if you know how to find it.
Jennifer. if you feel that way you probably wouldn’t enjoy Hawaii anyway. If you knew the historical significance of being proud about not being vaccinated and coming to Hawaii perhaps you would feel different. Hawaii is still a wonderful place for the folks who respect us enough to do what they can not to bring Covid here and care enough about others to be vaccinated.
JohnW;
I am a resident of Oahu. Still unvaccinated, still covid free. You’re shaming someone for not wanting to do something to their own body. Saying it saves lives or its to protect others has proven to be a losing argument. You’re either going to get a virus or you’re not and its no ones fault if you do. It just is what it is. Just because the government pits us against each other it doesn’t make it okay to treat others like they are less than. We have to be better than that.
You are simply wrong if you don’t think the vaccine has saved numerous lives and greatly enhances your ability to fight the virus.
Most of the deaths now are the unvaccinated.The breakthrough cases have other problems contributing to their death. That comes from people in the medical field who actually know. One person not getting Covid is hardly a lesson that applies to what is best for all. Take good care Kimberley, I don’t wish anyone to suffer from Covid.
I dunno, John. The US Supreme Court just said employers can’t mandate the vaccine. What does that tell you about a house of cards quickly falling?
My understanding is the Federal Govt cannot tell company’s what to do?
My first reaction is that makes sense. Leave it up to each company to decide what is best for their situation. I’m pro vax obviously, but there is a limit to what you can legislate.
Give it up JohnW. Though I tire as well correcting the committed, K is a committed anti-vaxer. Take a look at the daily numbers on Oahu. Just a matter of time K. Have you read the accounts of multiple “fully retired” anti-vaxers and aficionados finding out the real difference between getting CV-19 un-vaxed is being on the other side of the grass?
Kimberly. Your attitude that I know better than Science is the fatal flaw so many in our country have taken on.
Saying it saves lives has proven to be a losing argument? Really? We were at one point having 2000 citizens dying daily.
Good Day KIMBERLY
“Just because the government pits us against each other it doesn’t make it okay to treat others like they are less than. We have to be better than that.”
Indeed, Kimberly. Indeed.
“Raising fingers at each other will leave everyone without hands.”
― Abhijit Naskar
The original “government” in the early days of the pandemic made statements like: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. We have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.” or “Now, the virus — you know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat — as the heat comes in. Typically, that will go away in April. We’re in great shape though. We have 12 cases — 11 cases, and many of them are in good shape now.”
Is that the government you mentione
Don’t forget bleach and u.v.
I guess that would be the govt that got the vaccine made in record time.
Rod W
The US government didn’t get the vaccine in record time. Oxford Astra zenica was first. US would only give EUA to Pfizer and Moderna more protectionism I assume.
Sorry Rob W. Pfizer and Moderna developed their vaccines independent of any “government mandate”. No taxpayer funds were used by the most popular vaccine manufacturers, and J&J, which did receive some funding,has proven less effective anyway. Try again later.
Hi Kimberly
You are right Kimberly here are some studies that prove your point.
Stay strong. PS I am not mad at anyone, we also chose to go unvaxxed caught it (Delta) then used the FLCCC protocol which includes the drug no one can mention, good to go in a week. We also have had a ton of friends in Kauai ask for it.
Love you Hawaii