It seemed like just yesterday. When visitors weren’t welcome, there was a curfew, SafeTravels, and resort bubbles. As much as we’d like to forget, this is now part of our legacy.
It seemed like just yesterday. When visitors weren’t welcome, there was a curfew, SafeTravels, and resort bubbles. As much as we’d like to forget, this is now part of our legacy.
The reality is, Covid was something we weren’t prepared for and had to adapt our policies as we learned more about it. All we knew at the beginning was it killed people, especially the immunisupressed and elderly.
As we learned more, policies changed. The virus changed as well. In it’s current mutation it still kills people; it speads more easily so it’s not feasible to control just through PPE and isolation measures, but it also appears less deadly than the original version.
Hindsight is 20/20. Our political leaders and health advisors did what they thought best based on the information available to them at the time. What is most important us that we learn from this experience, because a different pandemic is always a possibility.
I don’t believe the so called experts did what was “best”! They so it as an opportunity to lie, cheat and steal!
Wow what a great article! I was living on Kauai when covid hit…Yes I have memory of the restrictions, walking on the beach, not laying on the beach etc. Costco lines, masks gloves and wondering if it would ever end….. Back in the mainland now and have traveled many times back and forth during the Crazy Covid times! Thankful it’s over and Hawaii has a chance to heal🩵
Mahalo
Hindsight is always 20:20. Hawaii did the best it could under the circumstances with what we knew at the time. Things could have easily gone the other direction and the Hawaiian Islands could have become “Covid Islands.”
Use common sense, if politicians believed in COVID risk why did so many violate their own COVID rules? Why were Costco, Walmart and Bars safe but schools and churches fatal? Asking questions is not hindsight it is the scientific method.
Remember when people like you with comon sense were called ” knuckleheads”?
Remember when masks outsdoors were saving lives, clising beaches was saving lives? Until science finally kicked in and not a single case of the flu was attributed to outdoor activities. 70,000 Hawaii citation later… non refundable.
I left for FL and never looked back. Weopened, didnt all die, and had less deaths than CA, and better overall stats than NY. Kids stayed in school..
Hawaii is an island 2500mi in the middle of the Pacific with a young healthy outdoors population. Hawaii was never destined to be doomed. Far too many healthy vegans and fish eaters vs the fats on the mainland.
I want to forget The National Guard coming to my home; sometimes twice a day in Military gear; driving tank sized Hummers.I traveled Inter-island and despite a negative Covid test I experienced House arrest. I won’t forget the palpable fear from my neighbors
BOH, Not sure what picture you posted, but it certainly is not the Grand Hyatt Kauai as you stated.
Hi Rob.
Thanks. Fixed.
Aloha.
Thanks for reminding us–it was not that long ago. I remember the SFO airport being empty. Because of all the rules for Hawaii we traveled to Mexico where we would not have to be quarantined. And then there were the friends who acted as if I was reckless and stupid to travel. I took at least a dozen flights during those 3 years and never got sick.
You call them COVID oddities, I call them
abuses.
Some of my “memories” in California include:
Gov Newsom closing the beaches using CHP officers stationed with guns at K-rails blockading State Beach roads and City policing blocking and chasing lone bicyclists on bike trails. Never forget.
What’s missing is the apologies from political leaders