One visitor asked us if this was reality TV or what. Sadly it’s the truth here in Hawaii.
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One visitor asked us if this was reality TV or what. Sadly it’s the truth here in Hawaii.
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I applied for a waiver for my husband to come in October. We have a home on the Big Island. I will be there already, doing my quarantine. He, however does not have that kind of time and the house needs repairs that I cannot physically make myself. We are not planning on bebopping all over the island, but it would be nice if he could go to the builder’s Supply to get what he needs so the elements dont overtake the house!
Tough luck for your husband. He needs to quarantine 14 days just like any other returning resident or visitor — no runs to Home Depot or super market. Why should he or anyone get an exemption or waiver? It’s people like you who come to Hawaii and end up spreading Covid to the locals. Stay home — we don’t want you in Hawaii. Don’t even think that he will not get caught breaking quarantine. The local people are quick to turn in quarantine breakers and he could face arrest and jail time. We are serious about protecting our island from the potential spread of Covid.
My husband has tested negative for the virus multiple times and would be willing to test as many times as needed. All this closing down is just foolishness. If you are not sick, you cannot spread an illness!
Ever thought of helping the local economy and hiring local for the needed work?
One of the things that makes the covid virus different and is the main reason why it has spread so far and wide and so quickly is that people will carry the virus and actively spread it to others before they have any symptoms at all. In fact there are people who have had covid and never had any symptoms at all yet have spread it to others.
It is clear these officials don’t have common sense, and quite possibly are stupid. A responsible person who is coughing would not get in a car with others. Also a responsible person would not ride in a car with someone who is coughing. They have the resources to make safe travel arrangements. No wonder they keep having new cases. It certainly doesn’t look like Hawaii will open up anytime soon. So sad.
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Hi Don.
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Josh Green contracting COVID proves that the state should open. Will he die from it? No. Will the people he is around die from it? Probably not. So why is everyone willing to sacrifice people’s livelihood and way too provide for their family over the possibility of someone getting a cold and surviving from it?? Before everyone became hyperactive over whether someone had COVID, people got sick all. the. time. We didn’t stop the necessary and vital businesses and routes of transportation over it! I miss my sister who lives in Hawaii and I cannot even go visit her. Everyone there has been incarcerated by a tyrannical governor who does not seem to be looking out for everyone’s interests.
I think you’re missing just how bad COVID is. It’s NOT just the flu. Also, we shouldn’t just be focused on the death rate. The hospitalization rate is pretty high, again, compared to the ordinary flu. So what you’re saying is, “Hey, some people are going to get REALLY sick, and some are going to die, too bad, we need to reopen the economy and that’s a price I’m willing to pay”. Sounds to me like your Governor isn’t willing to pay that price.
It is really frustrating to keep hearing over and over that this virus is just a cold and people should just deal with it. Even if you ignore the actual data about covid deaths, long term impairments, weeks of being sick and feeling crappy and all that, one can use common sense to see that this virus is extremely serious. Would pretty much every country in the world have imposed a lockdown to protect their citizens ? Would many of the smartest companies in the world have sent their employees home and keep them home over a cold ? Many politically different and very smart decision makers are taking the virus seriously and have not acted out of hysteria. If the argument is really that the economic cost is higher than the perceived benefit of millions of lives lost and suffering then I could understand that argument.
Hear, hear! Now if only the covidiots could hear and understand your manao.
Thank you so much AGAIN for keeping us advised. We don’t necessarily like the information we get, but it is needed. So far in the past 3 months we’ve cancelled two visits of ~4wks each to Kauai, and it’s starting to feel like we may need to cancel one in February 2021.
We appreciate the honest facts.
Hi Gary.
Thanks for your many comments.
Aloha.
is this correct in your opening paragraph “Since then he has not contracted COVID” ??? I think you meant to say he DID contact Covid- love your blog:)
Hi Nita.
Thanks so much for catching that and your dozens of comments. Corrected.
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Thank you for the update. We miss our time on Kauai but want every one to be health. What is happening to all of the small businesses? We hope they can come back from this! I have been buying items from stores on Kauai via email. I plan to buy Christmas gifts from Hawaii. Please join me in supporting our stores on Kauai. Aloha and Mahalo
Hi Tricia.
Thanks. Yes, lots of small and not so small businesses will be gone. It’s hard to say how many, but we’d venture to say half. The longer it goes, the worse that will be.
Aloha.
So it’s September 15 and we have no guidance from the state. No official postponement of the Oct. 1 opening. We have hotel reservations starting on Oct. 5, what are we expected to do? The leadership in Hawaii is severely lacking. They should have had a cut off date in place that if they didn’t have all their testing and guidelines figured out by Sept. 1 then they should delay another month. This is ridiculous to wait until the last minute to make an announcement. We have been planning this trip for a year, the money is all spent, and we have made work arrangements to leave. What will be the restrictions? We will not come and wear masks everywhere outside our rooms and not have access to the beach or pools or parks or? It is too much money to spend. There is no excuse for destroying the spirit of the beautiful people of Hawaii with no end in sight. I don’t care what politics are at play here, it is clear that there is no leadership. No concern for the Hawaiian people’s mental health or livelihood. I can understand closing everything in March and April, but now? It’s past time to deal with the new reality of our world. I won’t say I’m entitled to my Hawaii vacation, but certainly the people of Hawaii are entitled to a clear plan out of lockdown life. Based on yesterday’s news, we have cancelled our trip with no future dates in mind.
The Caribbean island of Aruba opened for tourism a couple of months ago and uses rigid pre-travel and on-arrival testing. Analyzing their Covid data you clearly see tourists are NOT the problem and opening for tourism CAN BE SAFE with the right testing in place.
7 infected tourists compared to 1500 infected residents
Agreed! You can also look to many other islands/destinations for successful reopening guidance: Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Bahamas, Bermuda, Turks & Caicos. Enough is enough — there ARE ways to safely reopen so that the people of Hawaii are both safe AND able to continue (literally) living & taking care of themselves/their families.
The very people these Govt officials are meant to be serving are the ones most suffering – and it’s NOT the virus that is causing all the harm. It is time for this government (Local, State and Federal) to stop politicizing the situation and Do their Jobs on behalf of the people — find a viable solution instead of sticking their proverbial heads in the sand and hoping it goes away!
All Hawaii visitors….stay away. We don’t have our act together.
Our Governor (Ige) is shoveling more stuff on all us citizens.
He and his team (?) are clueless.
We’ve been holding out for a glimmer of hope that our 10/20-29 trip to Kauai would still happen. Last week we were cautiously optimistic. Today – after reading the info from Ige – we’ve cancelled the trip and have booked a replacement trip to spend our dollars in Cancun instead. Ige can’t seem to get out of his own way with this whole thing. If 3rd world countries can figure this stuff out, how can the state of Hawaii not?? It blows my mind the level of incompetence that is running the state of Hawaii. I feel for the poor residents there that are having to suffer the unemployment, destruction of the main economic industry, and continued devastating effects of the poor leadership of the state.
Come on “Beat of Hawaii” Why not respond to the above valid comments……your “Thank You” to the few positive comments are wearing thin……
I agree with DS. Please start answering all of people’s questions. It’s so frustrating not to hear anything from you except, “thank you”. You are the boots on the ground in Kauai who can give us the nitty gritty information about what’s really happening, for instance, a list of businesses that have gone out of business so far. Thanks
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Nate, you could not have said it any better. Ige can’t seem to get out of his own way. The only successful thing he has done is scare the daylights out of Hawaii’s residents.
The trouble with pre-travel testing from the US is that the positivity rate is averaging around 8-10%. From a high of 16.6% in South Dakota (thank-you Sturgis) all the way down to 0.6 in Maine. So, that means that there’s going to be a high cancellation rate from US travelers. The other thing that means is that the virus is running rampant in the US and since we aren’t testing at very high levels we really don’t know exactly how many people actually have the virus. However, a study done here in LA by UCLA et al. shows that the number of actual cases exceeds the reported number of cases by at least 20%. So, we have 20% more cases than the 6 million reported and that’s a Lot of sick people running around! Why is that important? Well, if you test people 72 hours prior to leaving for Hawaii, and they don’t self-isolate, there is a reasonable probability that they could catch the virus during that 72 hour period. Airports, BTW, at least in the US, are the worst when it comes to cleaning. I JUST saw a story on the news where they put some kind of dust down on various surfaces at JFK and then came back three days later to see if these high traffic surfaces (like the counter at the airline) had been cleaned. Guess what? It was Terrible, they basically found every spot they put the dust on to still be here. So, even if I’ve had a test, and self-isolated for that 72 hours, passing through the airport in anything less than a hazmat suit is going to be problematic. Ok, so we have rampant virus spread in the US, and not good cleaning to help stop the spread. Add to that the politicization of mask-wearing, and do you Really think that there’s a safe way for Hawaii to reopen to US travel? If I were Hawaii, I would consider travel from Other countries, where they have the virus more under control, but right now, travel from the US mainland to Hawaii would be risking a serious outbreak.
This is getting so crazy . You can not keep extending this,please we need some young blood and people who are covid experts.Kauai has to open up!We need to be tested nothing offered here.