Visitor arrivals, Hawaii travel industry, and COVID numbers are on a different path than Governor.
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Aloha, Interesting that studies show the number one industry with the highest infection rate is Construction! Hmmmmh! “Essential” Union Industry virtually unscathed by the pandemic thanks to the “essential” designation! May I respectfully suggest to all principled residents of Hawaii to contact their legislators and senators and demand that they conduct an “emergency” session and strip this incompetent fool of his “emergency” power. After 18 months of incompetent handling of the pandemic, and picking winners and losers based on his definition of “essential”, this is long overdue. Where is the “all jobs matter” movement when we need it?
BOH: Clarity of policies and consensus-building have never been strong points here in Hawaii. How is it where you live?
Policy development and execution here in Georgia works pretty much in this manner.
The experts come – advise, counsel, recommend, receive large checks – then the experts go away.
The people pay scant attention to this.
The politicians in Atlanta stir the entrails, consult the stars, make numerous wind checks, then issue their policy.
The people consider the policy – usually very quietly.
The bulk of the people either adhere to the policy or they don’t.
When it is obvious that enough of the people view the policy as suspect and aren’t going to adhere, the policy will become very quiet and fade from view.
We are a state with a long agricultural history. Almost all of us little citizens know you can lead the biggest of bulls (or politicians) where you want him if you walk up to him very calm and quietly and then quickly pinch and hold him in the nose (or in the case of our state politicians – the wallet) before he can move away.
Hawaii is a “comedy” that keeps getting funnier. I have taken my family to Maui many times over the years. Unfortunately, due to the wild and crazy laws that sometimes change daily due to COVID-19, I will never visit the islands again. Sad but true. Sorry
It’s absolutely not sad. We are happy you won’t be returning!
Hi S.O.
I read your comment to Paulie S. and it posed a question. As a potential visitor, I’m hoping you can help me out.
I’ll ask up front you pardon my lack of knowledge regarding the native Hawaiian language.
Is your statement the translation of the world recognized “Aloha” or some other word? I wouldn’t want to come there and embarrass anyone.
Adios.
My sister- and brother-in-law and I just returned home from 3 days on Kauai and 6 days on Oahu. We’d waffled back and forth for a month about whether to cancel our trip or go for it. Would we be a health threat? Would we be more likely to fall ill? We were going to see family and friends, not to be tourists, and were very careful. It turned out to be a good time to go. Rental car prices were less than half than originally booked in April. Flights were anywhere from 1/3 to 2/3 full. We were cautious by seeing only one or two persons or one family group at a time and mostly visited outdoors. Did not visit with an unvaccinated cousin or the family recovering from a cold (not COVID). Ate at only a couple of restaurants, otherwise in family backyards or take-out or cook-our-own. On Oahu, I personally was more comfortable knowing that diners had to have proof of vaccination.
The only hiccup was checking in to lodging in Honolulu. We no longer had our wristbands from the airline on. I thought the QR code was sufficient and had printed them out, but the entire Safe Travels record for each showing green check marks for “screened” and “exempt” were required. With a senior sans smartphone and not knowing his email password to access the verification code sent by the Safe Travels site, checking in was a challenge. But, thankfully, the hotel was able to call Safe Travels to verify.
Given all I’ve heard that visitors have not been the driving force behind the COVID numbers, I think the governor is unnecessarily hurting the Hawaiian economy by extending the “don’t come” request.
Thank you BOH for your updates. They helped me make an informed decision NOT to cancel our trip. Apologies for the length of this post!
Hi Janet.
Thanks so much for that trip report.
Aloha.
Where does it show a green checkmark? I’ve done the safe travels, uploaded proof of vaccine, but there is no checkmark. Does it show up after questionnaire the day before? I also filled out CLEAR and linked that….that does show a checkmark. We go in November and want to have everything correct.
Once you complete the questionnaire within 24 hours of departure, log into your Safe Travels account and it will show your QR code and checkmarks for “screened” and “exempt”, but they will be red. I believe they go from red to green once you’ve gone through the airline and received your wristband or have gone through screening upon arrival at the airport in Hawaii. The lodgings want to see that page with green checkmarks either printed out or on your smartphone. Our first lodging accepted the wristbands (still attached to our wrists) as proof that we were screened and exempt.
I don’t know how it works with CLEAR.
Enjoy your trip, Lois!
It is fascinating to watch Hawaii sacrifice much of its economic well being at the alter of vaccine cards. While the Hawaiian government scrambles to vaccinate the people of Hawaii, all the while barricading the gates against the unwashed would dare travel to the islands, the wheels of the vaccine wagon continue to loosen and threaten to fall off as regards vaccines as a short term solution to Hawaii’s COVID problems.
A very recent University of California study conducted in San Francisco reveals:
“Variants with antibody-resistant mutations are playing an ever-larger role in our highly vaccinated region’s pandemic, according to research by prominent virologist Dr. Charles Chiu. …
The study suggests that new iterations of the virus will likely become even more resistant, over time, “until, eventually, you’re going to see the vaccine not work, or its efficacy will be reduced significantly,” he said”
The new study found that the proportion of cases caused by these variants increased over five months from 40% to 89%”.
Ultimately, we will control this pandemic by vaccinating as many people as possible, Chiu said.
The study may be found at: Krieger, L. (2021, August 27). New UCSF study: Vaccine-Resistant Viruses Are Driving ‘Breakthrough’ COVID Infections. The Mercury News, msn.com/en-us/health/medical/
Apparently, the only way to solve this is to accelerate our plan to vaccinate the world. None are safe until we are all safe. Vaccinating (2 doses) 70% of the world’s population requires 11 billion doses be administered.
How long? Best estimates range from late 2022 until 2024/25 for the 70% completion (no boosters).
All of this suggest Hawaii’s pending changes are perhaps just the yo-yo reaching the bottom of its string.
So cases went up when they stopped testing and went down when they stopped coming turns out it wasn’t the locals after all what a suprise.
Have ate out 3 times in 2 weeks. Only 1 establishment asked for Vax card and ID. They also made sure we knew they would ask when we called to reserve a table.
You’re awesome Jeff and Rob. I really appreciate all you do for us out here!
Mahalo 🌺🌺🌺🌺
Hi Pam.
Thanks for that, and the hibiscus! Always good to see you here.
Aloha.
Aloha BOH Bros, Did you get my picture yet? Just checking in. Stay safe & God bless you….😇🌺🌈🌞🕶🏖🛍👒🛩🥥🍍😍🐢🐠🩴🏝🌊🎉
Hi Andrea.
No we did not.
Aloha.
I would not trust my travel dollars or vacation time to Ige, not now, not ever. Much too erratic.
Hello Richard.
Erratic indeed.
Travel to Hawaii has become similar to the tables in Las Vegas. You pay your money, you take your chance.
Someone should open up a odds line on Hawaiian travel.
Just checking to see do you need a vaccination or testing going from island to island?
Dear Heather, The islands have dropped restrictions traveling to & from 🏝. Hawaii has a website that you can read all the information about covid. Stay safe! God bless you 😇🍍🥥🌺🌺🌈🌞🕶🏖🛍👒🛩
Heather the website is Hawaiicovid19.com