Continue Covid Testing For Now While Hawaii Retains Safe Travels Protocols

Keep Your Testing Plans For Now | Hawaii Retains Safe Travels Protocols

Hawaii Governor and Lt. Governor spar about when Safe Travels can be modified to eliminate Covid testing.

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  1. lovely time to censor BOH. My comment where insightful and did not harm anyone. Only pointing out that Hawaii has lost importance of the one sure way to bring in revenue…Tourism. Guess you don’t like that. Oh wait you are getting paid to encourage travel. Time to lighten up BOH your days as relevant are just as numbered as Ige.

    1. Hi Tony.

      We approve all comments manually as time permits. Nothing was censored. Having said that, we take offense to your comment, which was inappropriate.

      Aloha.

    2. Well Tony,

      Feel free to move on, and find another blog site that provides as close to the amount of pertinent information as Beat of Hawaii produces. If not for them, several thousand people would not have been able to navigate the hot mess Governor Ige (and his government cronies) created, since this entire fiasco begin well over a year ago.

      As long as I have known Jeff and Rob they may have their opinions, but they always present a far more fair and objective article/story than any source I have seen…especially compared to those in MSM, who clearly have an agenda.

      You should be grateful that they let people like you vent (appropriately), without completely deleting your posts. If it were me, I would have not only kicked your useless comment, but I would have booted and banned you from the site for your inappropriate false claim, and your unnecessarily rude bashing.

      If anything, they showed the rest of us (who actually understand their reporting is effective and important), that you proved yourself 100% wrong.

      Thank you BoH for sharing your wealth of knowledge and experience, and know that his kind of response does not reflect how I (or frankly the vast majority of readers) feel. Keep doing what you’re doing, knowing that it has and will continue to have a huge impact on those of us who appreciate you as a trustworthy news source.♥️🤍💙🤙

      1. Hi Jim.

        You are so very kind! Thank you. We appreciate you and your well over 200 comments to date.

        Aloha. R/J

        1. You bet Rob and Jeff. You definitely don’t deserve that kind of inappropriate and inaccurate bashing. Personally, I’m looking forward to the time when we can put this crap behind us, and solely focus again on the travel aspect and the beauty of these islands that people need to see and live for the short time they are here…talk to you soon!

  2. This is really a great source of information. Unfortunately for your economy I won’t be travelling to Hawaii until the State comes to it’s senses regarding fully vaccinated people.

  3. I’m with the Gov. on this one. the one sowing confusion is the Lt. Gov. The Gov was CLEAR as heck, the metric is 60%, period. It’s the Lt. Gov who continues to say things that aren’t the official position of the Gov. It’s pretty simple, testing will continue until that 60% mark is reached. At the current rate of vaccination, that mark will not be reached by July 4th. Anyone who listed to the Lt. Gov is, of course, confused. So my suggestion is to stop listening to anyone BUT the Gov. and just check the Safe Travel’s website and/or call them if in dount. But right now, nothing has changed from what it’s been for MONTHS. It also doesn’t help when BOH says things like “Do keep in mind that Governor Ige was the one who had set July 4 as the target date to eliminate testing for fully vaccinated travelers.” I think that’s confusing to people because it was a TARGET DATE when Hawaii MIGHT reach and WANTS to reach 60%, not a HARD date as the Lt. Gov. wants us all to believe. As I said above, it’s really simple. Nothing changes until they reach 60%, and then they will let us all know. Till then, keep your testing plans, like the article headline says.

  4. This is so ridiculous. I’m traveling on July 6 with my grandson and two friends to our condos in Maui. And now California has a state database with everyone that’s been vaccinated. You can register on the site and get a QR code to prove that you’re vaccinated. Why is that less valid than being vaccinated in the state of Hawaii? This should illuminate the governors concern that people will forge their vaccination card. All of us are fully vaccinated. Why should we need to spend $360 to get tested. In Orange County we only had 19 cases reported today out of almost 3 1/2 million people. Is the governor even looking at the probability of a fully protected traveler infecting a fully protected Hawaiian. I doubt if there’s even one case in Hawaii where somebody that is fully protect has infected somebody that’s also fully protected. If you want to calculate the probability based on the percentage of breakthrough cases, I think you will find that it’s somewhere between 100,000,000 to 1 and 1,000,000,000 to 1. Let’s face it, there is a higher probability that you will get bitten/eaten by a shark in Hawaii then contracting the coronavirus from a fully protected traveler.

  5. Inge needs to open the state fully. Hawaii needs the tourism dollars to support small family run businesses. The tourists are over there in droves but the restaurants are still at partial capacity. A majority of restaurants are outdoors as well but the restaurants are forced to keep some tables closed due to the governors covid rules. Look at the science and don’t limit the residents of Hawaii from making money for their families……

  6. It makes zero logical or scientific sense to require a Covid test on a fully vaccinated person. The only way this makes any sense is economically for the state and its “Trusted Partner Lab” scam.
    Let people spend their money in the private/tourism Hawaiian economy and not on an over priced and needless Covid test.

  7. I tend to agree with Ed and also question whether or not Gov. Ige will lift the travel restrictions even if Hawaii reaches 60%.
    He is certainly not offering any incentives to people to get vaccinated and get to that necessary 3% either.

  8. The PCR tests are unreliable and can be manipulated depending how many cycles they use. Even the developer of the test said it shouldn’t be used for testing of Covid. It’s a stressor to hopefully get the results in time and it adds to the cost of the trip. Plus, if one member of a family of four has a false positive, the whole family’s trip is ruined. This nonsense needs to stop. People have to stop living in fear, including the Governor. Maybe he is one of those who drives with a mask on in his car with the windows closed. Always a head shaker.

    1. Aloha Kawika.

      Please read the comment below. Bash Ige or any pol. I don’t care. But misplaced irritation is not the answer to a deadly pandemic that has killed 600K real American people. Have you checked the visitor numbers lately? It’s like 2020 never happened, and should we follow your lead, visitors will be here with no car, no place to eat and crowded everything

  9. The challenge is that Hawaii is isolated from the rest of the world. It’s easy to open up the mainland as there are cities/states that can take overflow patients. In Hawaii, what would you do? The finally implemented systems and processes that are in place are working spectacularly well. Tourists are arriving in record numbers and cases are way down. A win win in my book. If you had asked me a couple of months back, my story would have been different. Have made two round trips in the last month and it’s been easy/peasy.

  10. Hawaii a leader in unemployment, a good testing plan when it was needed now needs to open up. I have been traveling to Hawaii since it was opened up. Took all the pre tests, arrival tests, log into safe travels and hey got a vaccine. Time for Hawaii to enter into the USA again and open up. Let people travel and get the state back to work and a recovery. I know tourism is a four letter word for many but reality is it does a lot of good along with bringing a few problems. Hawaii is only hurting itself and no one else by not opening up.

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