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First of all travel bubbles are silly and bring up many questions that do not have a good answer. What % of people will actually be interested?
I’d say less than 2% of normal Kauai visitors would even think of a “bubble trip”.
Please let’s have some common sense. Mandatory preflight testing is of course the answer- why is that so hard to understand and set up?
Thank you. Let’s not make beautiful Kauai look like it’s run by short sided,illinformed bureaucrats.
Hi Karl.
News moves fast these days, and today is a good example. We are left wondering if the resort bubbles will even materialize now that the governor has announced reopening on October 15. Did he know this was coming?
Aloha.
Traveling should be a privilege, not a right. When you think of it as a privilege, you respect where you are going and that goes for them coming here and us going anywhere else. I think doing a pilot with Japan, who tends to be more o.k. with face masks and rules is a smart way to test the system. Once you have that under your belt then you can deal with those that want to come because it is their “right” who will likely give the system a run for its money.
i may have had maybe one or two Japanese tourist stay in my condo the past 20 years. Don’t really see them on Kauai since before Hurricane Iniki with the big tour buses. Won’t help my property and hey, property taxes are due in less than a month…
I think we may be asking the wrong question. Once visitors begin to arrive in numbers (regardless of location), case counts will increase. We’re already seeing case counts increase through community spread in Oahu. This will continue until a vaccine is widely available and is in use.
So the choices really are either stay closed until Covid can be contained through the use of vaccines (and live with the economic collapse) or accept the risk of opening the economy again (and we’ve seen the results of that elsewhere in the world).
I don’t have the answer – Neither are good choices.
Hello and I am glad you’re bringing up the Japanese Bubble idea. In many ways I understand the need and want of such tourism, but I watch Japanese News (NHK) every evening so I perhaps have a little more knowledge on this.
Last week Japan was averaging around 100-150 new cases a day. But this week it has skyrocketed. Today is Thursday and on Tuesday they had almost 1000 new cases. As of last evening they went over 1200. They are having issues. This virus has no boundaries.
I think any bubble idea is premature at best. Sorry Hawaii, I love you and my family and friends there. But Japan is not safe either.
It is no surprise that Japan will get prefferantal treatment as a main land visitor we have had the Japan people given 1st place in line, even if they came last, Hawaii loves there money over ours. I for one am sick of it but we love the beautiful islands and will continue to come, but avoid ohau!