State silent following Maui about-face on rules affecting Hawaii visitors.
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State silent following Maui about-face on rules affecting Hawaii visitors.
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I know that Ige has said several times in the last few months that, he would like to do away with the Hawaii safe travel program. I think Lt Gov Green has determined at this time that, the Hawaiian hospitals are no longer in danger of being overrun with the covid virus. IMO, they are both wanting to get a better look at what’s going on in the hospitals. But, it wouldn’t surprise me if Safe Travels was to be gone soon.
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I personally wish Maui would of left the booster requirement in place. We are going to be on island in a few weeks and had hoped that requiring the covid booster would mean less tourists to contend with. We are proudly boosted and support it being required to enter any of the Islands of Hawaii
A recent report in the Wall Street Journal indicates those who have contracted covid have a “natural immunity 2.8 times as effective in preventing hospitalization and 3.3 to 4.7 times as effective in preventing Covid infection compared with vaccination” Hawaii is governed by fear masking as “science”. In the meantime, businesses are shuttered, good employees are fired, and the states covid policy is run like an idiotic driver with his right foot on the gas & left foot on the brake!
This is a short-sighted perspective. We were recently at Maui Memorial after a car accident. Even with the recent decline in COVID cases, they are stretched very thin to treat all of the COVID patients on top of their normal load of traumas, strokes, heart attacks, etc. It’s very selfish of you to care more about businesses making money than the health and lives of the people of Hawaii. Also, the research shows that esp w omicron, natural immunity is at best equal to or worse than vaccination.
Carol and I dine out at least once a week. While we have both been vaccinated, including boosters, and strongly believe in the science behind inoculations, we are shocked at how few restaurants ask for vacc card. There is a huge disconnect between the rules and enforcement. Maybe it’s partly due to the reduced police force, down 25% in manpower?
Maybe the police force is out chasing down real criminals, Jim B.
Not sure about Maui/Oahu, but Kauai intimidates restaurant/store employees by threatening to fine them if customers do not obey mask theatre (“distancing” has been dropped). The enforcers are health inspector types, not LEO. I have yet to go any business that demanded to inspect a vax card (anywhere; not just on Kauai). The blog guys have identified a few, which are easy enough to avoid or to seek out, depending on your preference.
Hawaii is still running dinosaur policy of 2 jabs vax requirement. 2 jabs people already don’t have protection. And you let them fly to Hawaii without 72hr covid test. While unvaxxed need to do covid test. Hahaha. Unvaxxed actually offers safer public health protection than vaxxed!!
Questionable which one is worse, dinosaur 2 jab vs no vax tested, but you are 100% right 2 jabs is silly. Vaccine is everywhere, just require the booster already. Even if it prevents 1 Hawaiian from getting COVID it is worth it.
I wish everyone would quit whining! I got the booster a long time ago and it was no big deal.
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Good for u but doesn’t mean it has to be forced.
Yeah but what about all of those that it was a big deal for? Selfish on your part.
I just went to lunch at a packed restaurant in Roseville California a masking state, no one was masking or social distancing. Put a fork in the pandemic it’s done.
Yet next Sunday at the Super Bowl in LA they’re going to hand out N95 masks and throw anyone not wearing one out of the stadium.
Crazy
Completely location dependent. No masks in our mainland location (Wydaho). But Kauai is still requiring (cloth) masks in stores and from doors to tables in restaurants. Lots of tourists wear them outside. We drove through Calif this past fall. Not many masks down in OC, but they were mandatory in LA, then none in Kern Co., back to mask theater in San Jose. Wedding in Sac, no masks. The Kauai Toyota dealership still has a basket for “used” pens and still takes your temp to walk inside (I don’t).
Sadly Orange County thinks rules and mandates don’t apply to them
If only they would obey!
Our local city government in Wydaho tried to reinstate a “face cover” mandate during the Delta wave, and maybe 10-15% of the populace complied. But, that same 10-15% was wearing them anyway. Notices posted on all the doors, but that’s as far as it got. The Omnicold wave was over before the Apparatchiks could post any further notices to be ignored.
True I live down town hb and they think their invincible 🤷🏻♀️
Hi Mike 70 yrs old active senior. I have.Two shots”* .I live in OC. Glad our sheriff does not care.
Great. I did as well. That was our choice. Others have reasons for not getting the booster or the vaccine, e.g., getting infected. They have the right to make their own personal choices without being judged by you, me, or anyone else.
Daily death count in Los Angeles County is still high, between 50 and 90 humans per day. We care about our residents and want to keep them and visitors safe. Un-vaxed people are the majority of victims of the virus.
The people that get sick and end up in the hospital, can take several weeks or longer to actually pass away. And for that reason the covid death numbers lag behind the surge numbers. From what I understand, if you end up in the ICU your change of survival is very poor.
Everyone is either vaccinated or got the virus (in many cases both), the health risks to the general public is no different than the flu. Those who feel at risk. please keep taking the shot and mask up, those who don’t please live your life freely; I believe that is what most Americans are/have been feeling and saying for a while. I think our Government in control is finally either, hearing it loud and clear, or just taking a break until after the midterm elections. So I expect loser regulations
Ridiculous! Everyone I know who was Vaxxed was very sick with Covid! Maybe they worked on the original Alpha but not anything else all data is showing…and I mean they are super spreaders as well -All of them …Hawaii best follow Florida & let humans choose if/when/what to permanently put into their bloodstreams… thanks BOH as always
Ps…I am typing this on a fabulous beach in Maui & we have purposely avoided any restaurant that asks us to “show your papers”! We still live in America.
Big hugs to Nita
Agree. I know at least 25 friends/family/co-workers who got Covid within the past 2 months, most, if not all of them, were vaccinated.
What should come next is our government to stop listening to and following advice from Fauci, etal. Everyone’s life would be much simpler if we could just live our own lives as we would during any cold or flu season. For whatever reason, there are always deaths attributed to the flu. As a matter of fact; our friend’s husband died from the flu 4 or 5 years ago. Someone who was healthy and shouldn’t have died???? God’s will.