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Hawaii should leave the mandatory testing requirement up to the individual traveler period…shouldn’t matter where you are traveling from. This is utterly stupid and just shows you how out of touch the leadership in Hawaii truly is. Just because someone tests negative within 72 hrs of arrival means absolutely nothing! The incubation period of COVID is 3-14 days. If Hawaii requires any kind of financial rescue package then they should seek a bail out from those other countries and not the US government…why should my tax dollars help support Hawaii recovery?
Oh dear, the racists are at it again. DC imposes travel restrictions against states with high rates of Covid no one says a thing, Hawaii wants to welcome tourists with low rates of infection and all the old racism that Mainlanders get disrespected for comes out again. Does not matter where folks come from if they are free of disease and have an effective system of prevention and testing, come on down. If you have high rates of disease and no effective control, the constitution does not give you an inalienable right to spread pestilence and disease indeed states have a duty to protect the helath and welfare of their citizens.
If I can’t visit Hawaii from the mainland, then no one else should be allowed to visit! Especially Japanese tourists who (in my personal experience) are always polite, clean, wear masks, and come from a country with a low infection rate. Mahalo for hearing me out.
It only makes sense to allow visitors right now from countries and regions where infections are low. Hawaii’s economy is suffering, unemployment is high, bankruptcies are mounting, jobs are scarce to nonexistent. Even with only a slight boost to the economy, it’s more visitor dollars (or yen) than Hawaii is taking in right now. Australia and New Zealand should be allowed in the travel bubble shortly. For the safety of the people of Hawaii, we mainlanders can wait until the virus is under control. People will whine of course, saying it’s their “Constitutional right” to visit the islands and nonsense like that, but they need to suck it up. I read that hotels in Waikiki are taking unprecedented steps to ensure the safety of their guests, to include ionized disinfectants, no menus or brochures in rooms, UV wands, plexiglass shields at check in, reservations to use the pools and hot tubs, with a one hour time limit. So the industries are getting prepared. Maybe Ige has been waiting until these procedures have been put into place before allowing tourism, however limited. Hopefully the other islands are preparing as well.
How about Hawaii turn this into a win/win/win for Hawaii, Japan and the mainland… Negotiate into the deal that Japan supply Hawaii with enough testing supplies so Hawaii can utilize those testing supplies to not only test Japan arrivals but also mainland Us visitors. Of course there is a cost to this but possibly this could be both Japan and US government subsidized. Japan wins as a preferred Hawaii partner for travel and with a contract for testing, Hawaii wins with tested visitors from Japan and the Us mainland, and the US mainland wins with the opportunity to visit if they choose by getting a test at a subsidized rate. Could even set in the deal…Japan provide 5 tests per traveler from Japan to Hawaii. Then utilize the extra tests for mainland visitors. Could do something similar with other countries from Asia. Idea is if you want preferred travel then provide the tests to help Hawaii.
To answer the concern of contracting the virus from other travelers on the plane… if any travelers in your flight test positive then you are required to get tested every two days in Hawaii. A minor inconvenience for the opportunity to visit. Also allow visitors to attempt to get a test on their own before flying and show test results. Sure some will be able to and many will not. I know we would at least try further reducing risk. Those that can’t would then use the Hawaii arrival test option.
The end result is testing is the key. The US doesn’t have enough supplies. Other countries do. Let’s use the allure of Hawaii to tap into some of those test capabilities. Have them supply the tests for all visitors at a subsidized rate. Win/win/win for Hawaii/japan travelers / Us travelers. For those that refuse to get tested even when it is available then 14 day quarantine goes into effect. I am sure very few will refuse or simply will just stay home instead.
Thanks always Beat of Hawaii for the opportunity to discuss, debate and hypothesize solutions.
Hi Kyle.
Thanks very much.
Aloha.
I will not write anything new. I just copied 2 previous comments that you just posted in this. I totally agree with them.
“As an American citizen, the US Constitution is my right to cross state lines without restrictions. Also, their idea of a bubble with Japan is repugnan…Karen
“Hawaiians can send the bills to Japan and Australia and ask them when their next stimulus checks will arrive.” — MG.
As a owner of a condo in Hawaii I experience racism every time I visit. Most of the time it is subtle. This is blatant. Makes me angry that a state would open to foreign travel and not allow their own countrymen to visit.
I have a rental property (single family home) in the VDA (vacation Destination Area) on Kauai. We have lost all our bookings including future bookings for the entire year. We have depended on the income for our retirement.
Hurricane Ige has destroyed us as he has acted as the supreme non-leader…using his power to control citizens who have businesses in Hawaii.
We tried to come back to Kauai, doing the 14 day quarantine at our own house with two guests coming with us since they are building a house in our neighborhood. The Mayor of Kauai will not allow our friends to quarantine with us and told them they had to go and quarantine for 14 days in a designated hotel. Kauai has had no deaths related to Covid and just a few politicians are destroying the economy. The facts don’t justify the actions of these power hungry idiots!
Seriously is Ige closing his sovereign nation to American citizens and allowing other countries into Hawaii? He is Picking winners and losers as where they stay…this has killed us. The mayor of Kauai also has his own set of rules. Dictatorships don’t work! Best to all my brothers and sisters on Kauai…I hope to jobs come back when the tourists don’t.
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One of the very joyous and beautiful trips my family takes is to Hawaii. Obviously there are many complex details to work out once we would land re: testing, etc. Today, I will not be the guinea pig to Hawaii’s experiments in this regard but we miss Maui ! So, let the Hawaiian government and, say, Japan and Australia work out these logistic kinks so that it can be a more efficient and effective system in the near future for us Mainlanders. You have our support Hawaii as I know you’ll safely welcome us very soon.
I fully support Hawaii opening up to tourists from Japan. Those who are opposed are extremely selfish.
Testing and getting results within 72 hours flying to Hawaii is NOT AN OPTION for the extreme majority of mainland visitors. Results are taking 4 – 10 days.
Until testing and results are possible within 72 hours, Hawaii’s options are:
1) Allow mainland visitors into the country without testing or a quarantine. This would basically guarantee that the hospitals would be overwhelmed with Covid-19 cases.
2) Continue to require a 14 day quarantine for everyone, including visitors from countries with extremely low cases of Covid-19. The local economy would continue to be devastated.
3) Continue the 14 day quarantine for mainland visitors, and allow some relief to Hawaii’s economy by allowing Japanese, New Zealanders, and Australians to enter without quarantine.
#3 is the obvious choice in the short term, unless you are unbelievably selfish. “If I can’t go to Hawaii without quarantine, than the Japanese can’t go, either!”
In the meantime, Hawaii will continue to work with CVS / Quest Diagnostics / others to get testing with fast results going on the mainland.