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My wife and I totally ignored Ige’s request. We went through Hawaii Safe Travel protocols and are now enjoying two weeks on Oahu and Maui visiting our grand kids and supporting Hawaiian businesses and citizens. The local people that we have met are extremely friendly and appreciative of our visit. They need your support.
Did you do Covid test? We’re you required to have the shot?
You are currently NOT required to have any shot, and NO you do not have to test, if you are vaccinated, which is absolutely ridiculous since both unvaccinated and vaccinated can contract and spread the virus. You do still have to test if you are not vaccinated, however.
The reality is everyone is at risk by not testing ALL Travelers getting on a plane. It really is that simple, if they’d actually “follow the science”, which they have been preaching for the last 18 months…🙄
Ige and Green are the Hawaiian version of the movie “Dumb and Dumber.” How sad it looks like “Dumber” will be the next Governor. The people deserve the people they vote for and put in office.
Shreek!
I feel for the residents and business owners of Hawaii! I hope things get headed in the right direction.
That said ….we bought our tickets today for February!
“It is hard for anyone to predict what route Governor Ige will take next.”
A succinct statement of one of the causes of Hawaii’s tourism downturn.
My thought is Ige is continuing an attempt to thread the eyes of two moving needles. One is on the yo-yo of Hawaii’s tourism economy and the other is with effective state control of a world-wide shape-shifting virus.
Unless he is very skilled and fortunate he may miss both. While states indeed differ, it is difficult to find one that hasn’t either suffered increased casualties or increased economic slowdown and damage depending upon its chosen policies. Their approach seems to have been choose, suffer, and get through it rather than prolong the agony.
Given the limitations imposed by time, consideration of the number of variables and unknowns, and the raw Hawaiian politics in all this, it may be Ige is compelled to follow other states and choose the lessor of the evils.
Your governor likes the power thrill…… Costs don’t matter, power does….
Governor Ige is a tool, and a bad one at that. This is not Political, it’s bad business for a State that is 99% Tpurist and Military Dependant. This is minimally the 2nd time, he’s shown incompetence, the first being the Nuclear Attack Warning in Waikiki 3 years ago, that brought Mazie Hirono out blaming the USN, when it was a State Employee that failed Protocols! Now, following probably Schatz and Hirono again, look no further then other Democrat managed States and Cities, from NYC, Baltimore, DC, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, LA, SF, even Las Vegas, they have all suffered with draconian lock-downs that punish Retail, Service, their Employee’s, while the Elites and Politico’s on full Salaries are untouched, they just cannot grasp the common man! When you see DFS Close, you know something is wrong, Hawaii’s Health Director says less then 1% of Positive Covid Testing is Tourist related, rather then making things worse and defying Science with Mandatory Vaccination to. Travel, that lasts but 5-7 months, theruetics are and have been the answer, from the New Merck, these are the great equalizer a that enable those being treated to defeat the Virus and survive! We cancelled May, because of the Mask Mandate, the powers that be relented and Hawaii was the beneficiary, then like too much success, after scolding Airlines, and announcing higher Room Taxes after Ige took those from the other Counties and put in the General Fund. Follow the Science, those that Test Negative can come, and there’s no bogus Fake Vax Cards. A hui Hou!
You make to much SENSE for Ige & his Co-horts of Indecision! 99% vs 1%- Hmm? What would a Critically thinking Independent Brain Conclude?
I had cancelations for Sept and October sighting Iges stupid appeal to not come to Hawaii. There were other factors as you said but my only cancelations were due to Ige,ugh!
I just want to say that doesnt it make sense that the numbers of covid cases has gone down and so has the tourist, when the tourist was at the all time high, so was the cases. But wait lets blame everything on the locals and their gatherings they are the ones that have made the cases go up. Sheesh!
Aloha Matilda,
You apparently don’t realize that Local Residents, traveling to the Mainland and back, significantly decreased also, when traveling reduction occurred. Your presumption is that Locals from Hawaii traveling to/from didn’t stop at all after that. Your again presume Local families stopped gathering during this time period as they travelled to see family members in the Mainland or to Vegas (which in itself completely goes against the culture of Locals born and raised on the Islands). Vegas was a breeding ground for the virus, at that time, and immediately after Vegas reopened, Locals jumped on planes to go get their fix…
Please, don’t act like this is tourists who were doing this, when obviously the statistics show otherwise. Locals were predominately responsible for the virus spread over the summer based on statistics from all the medical facilities reporting their data. Making it appear that it wasn’t, when not taking other pertinent factors into consideration, is actually pushing a false narrative.
Mahalo.
Aloha, sadly we booked another destination for the beginning of next year, and now we’re a bit heartbroken about this latest news.
We had a very wonderful trip in May, and had no problems with Safe Travels or anything else COVID related.
Buy, as we began our annual bookings (we been to Maui every year for the last 7 years), we were inundated with Gov Ige’s “Stay Away” statements on both medi print and national (mainland) TV news, and we even read in various travel page comments how much the Hawaiian people agree that we tourists should stay away.
It was never our island, it belongs to the people of Hawaii and so we felt it better to find a new destination to try out.
We will miss the wonderful folks we encountered from the staff at Capt Jack’s to the awesome staff at the Kaanapali Beach Resort.
Perhaps we won’t like our new destination and we may return in the future, when all this mess is sorted out.
Mahalo to everyone we’ve had the privilege of meeting over the last 7 years.
We just cancellled our family trip in November because Gov Ige said to stay away. It would have been a first for our 22 and 17 year old. High price to pay to be an uneanted tourist. Fyi – we are all vaxed.
What a mess!! Ige makes absolutely no sense to me!
Thank goodness we have the BOH to make some semblance of understanding to the madness. We’ll be returning to the BI for our second trip in as many months thanks largely in part to the info provided here! Thanks BOH!
Hi Bob.
Thank you. Happy to hear you’ll be returning to the Big Island.
Aloha.