Six months into an uncertain future, Hawaii is worse off than ever before.
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Six months into an uncertain future, Hawaii is worse off than ever before.
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Look at this – Dominican Republic using FREE, immediate breathalyzer threats for Covid on arriving tourists.
They and Mexico are cleaning up on the tourism business while Hawaii goes kamikaze. All this economic lockdown destruction for naught, our “cases” are blooming.
Mexico is becoming a disaster area in terms of COVID. Not a very good model to use. The Dominican has nearly 3 times the death rate as Hawai’i. Also not so good. The really good examples are nations like NZ or Vietnam, who kept the numbers way down by taking firm, extensive measures early. NZ totally stopped all inbound flights for weeks. Seems like a lot of people are more worried about their vacation than about human life. That’s sad.
Has anyone else noticed that after the huge surge in testing with the fed help , in the tunnels, that the number of new cases has dropped!!? I think the Honolulu Civil beat reported only 63. I think they were trying for somewhere around 10,000 more tests in 2 weeks.
Bill
It has been said that a fish rots from the head down
Yes right to the very top where the man in charge of the white house thought this was all a conspiracy theory and hoax to ruin him. Had he spurred the federal government on and taken it seriously Hawaii and the rest of the nation would not be broken.
This has ZERO to do with local government
Hawaii is becoming just like Puerto Rico.
I’m not blaming the moderators since this is a mom and pop operation with little ability to control the tone of posts, but please screen posts for accurate information. The site has become infiltrated by Qanons, pandemic deniers, “it’s just the flu” crowd and, amazingly, some who don’t recognize the old Sicilian observation of leadership and responsibility: “A rotting fish stinks from the head down”.
We have posts that actually still promote the mutterings from a President still in denial (hydrochloride products,leave it to the states, the vaccine is just around the corner, soon we’ll be down to zero cases).
Has anyone been through a true worldwide pandemic from a .025 micron virus that appears to wreak havoc on the lungs, the gut, the heart, etc. with unknown long-term consequences? We now lead the world in cases. About one in five deaths worldwide are Americans.
Has Hawaii done everything right? That would be no. Does Hawaii look like Texas, California, Florida and now a host of Midwestern states? Thankfully, that’s also a no.
Be patient those who are thoughtful, understand kuleana, ohana and pono. We will get through this, and the islands will welcome thoughtful visitors.
Wow James – So anyone who disagrees with you if from Qanon or is a pandemic denier? I have seen many posts that are thoughtfully trying to balance the effects of the pandemic with the economic catastrophe it is causing.
Just because someone disagrees with you doesn’t automatically negate their opinion or make them wrong. Re-read that last statement and remember it the next time you want to tee off on the rest of the world and start name-calling again.
There’s a difference between someone voicing an opinion and spouting untruth. Anytime you see a remark prefaced by “China flu” (it’s not a flu. it’s a coronavirus), “the casualty numbers are manufactured”, or a plethora of other garbage, then, yes, their opinion is based on conspiracy, not facts. It is not name calling to call out those who would use this platform as a sounding board of conspiracy.
I do agree that disagreements based on whether a quarantine is the answer to Hawaii’s threats, that closures should be balanced with economic activity. Go for it. But your over-the-top “analysis” of my post is simply one more example of not comprehending the purpose of the post.
Facts do matter, and no amount of conspiracy mongering can hide that fact. Read the post again my friend.
I for one am thankful that BOH is not censoring the comments section. I don’t agree with everything that people say here but I am for the free sharing of ideas.
As far as the virus itself, I knew that when it got political, we were screwed. After Pearl Harbor and Sept 11, Americans pulled together for the common good of our nation, regardless of their political affiliation. Unfortunately, that’s not happening now.
Mahalo again to BOH for keeping us updated. I just made reservations for Kauai in May 2021. I’m confident it’s going to happen!
Hi Curtis.
Thank you!
Aloha.
I agree censorship is bad but we have had a number of commenters who continue with long since debunked theories who just non stop spew propaganda and disinformation.
Aloha and Mahalo James for displaying critical thinking skills which are almost non-existent these days.
It is mind blowing that the same people who are adamant that this is a weaponized, man made virus (so, biological warfare) are the EXACT SAME people who think masks are a violation of their rights.
WHAT!?!?!?!?
It is a virus that attacks THE BRAIN.
I don’t care how it got here. I can’t do anything about that.
It is here NOW and it is not leaving.
I don’t want it.
And I sure as heck don’t want to be the person who gives it to anyone else.
People need to come together to fight the VIRUS and stop fighting each other.
It is so distressing to me (mainlander whose happy place is and always will be Hawaii) that Hawaii is not showing the rest of the USA what can be accomplished when everyone pulls together. He wa‘a he moku, he moku he wa‘a.
“Increasing evidence supported the NEURO-INVADING potential of SARS-CoV-2. According to the first-hand evidence from Wuhan, 36.4% of COVID-19 patients presented neurological symptoms such as dizziness, headache and impaired consciousness during hospitalization. Furthermore, the percentage and extensiveness were higher in severe patients [7]. Except the frequent olfactory and gustatory dysfunctions in mild-to-moderate COVID-19 patients recorded by 12 European hospitals, scattered cases of various neurological diseases including encephalitis, stroke, micro-hemorrhage, hemorrhage posterior reversible encephalopathy and cerebral venous embolism were also reported in hospitalized patients [8, 9, 10]. Additionally, it was documented that the specific SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in the cerebral-spinal fluid (CSF) of a COVID-19 patient [11]. Although no definite description of the pathological findings has been recorded, all the aforementioned evidence indicated SARS-CoV-2 was neuro-invasive just like SARS-CoV [12].”
Dearest people of Hawaii- I miss you all and everything about the islands that grabbed my heart since my first visit in 2009. The moment we’re able to visit, we’re all in with mana and Aloha. Meantime, I plan to order holiday gifts from the islands to do what I can to help the economy.
You are loved and never forgotten.
In health,
Dana
This awful experiment has now planned out and Hawaii has been destroyed. You can not stop a virus, certainly in a short period of time.
Protect the vulnerable and get on with life. The entire state has been killed over the protection of few. A 100% infection rate will not equal a 100% death rate.
The money has stopped flowing. Will the people decide to live or wither and fall off the vine.
Maybe it is time to vote differently.
Beautifully said, but oh so sad:(… The world has never shut down for a bad flu season… But now you’ve trained people to be socialist sheep and follow government orders to their demise:( The long-term consequences will & are devastating.
I heard a Republican is running the entire country right now. How we doing there? Hawaii is part of the United States.
State governments decide on lockdowns … do your own research & see what states are open & which are closed. States rights it’s in our Constitution.
We were doing better before civid than anytime in history.
And remember when President Trump shut down travel Crazy Nancy was in Chinatown telling everyone to come on down, everything is ok, it’s on video.
All the retarded moran democrats were screaming President Trump was racist for shutting down travel.
So the Crybaby liberals can’t hide any longer because there is video everywhere. Lol
another lying trumper spouting nothing more than propaganda. Your orange menace has lost his mind and you all have blood on your hands
Political,theater, local style. How do they sleep. Corruption, incompetence, or both. The fraud continues to expand.