Four policy changes are coming that could impact your Hawaii vacation to keep everyone safer.
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Four policy changes are coming that could impact your Hawaii vacation to keep everyone safer.
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If the city and state want to encourage compliance with a mask wearing mandate the only way to enforce such a rule will only work if financial consequences are levied against violations.
Please increase the approved test locations. I was invited to Maui 5 days prior to my United flight. I scoured the internet for an approved test location within 30 miles of San Francisco. Many Hours online and on phone. Finally found an opening 42 hours before my flight time.
It’s very very difficult to get tested unless it’s a month in advance.
I’m hoping I have my results upon landing.
So sickening …. all’s i read is people wanting to run amuck on Maui .”…We gotta drive for tests, this puts our vacation on hold… Blah blah blah” Stay in the mainland land with your entitled selves. We have enough of you in our islands !
You have visitors who tested negative prior to arriving to Hawaii but you allow passenger who have not tested on the same plane. That makes no sence. You run a high risk of exposure to passenger who will not be quarantine and develops the virus from a passenger not tested.
“You run a high risk of exposure to passenger who will not be quarantine and develops the virus from a passenger not tested.”
Maybe in someone’s mind remembering their past cramped flights packed full of coughing people, but not on the flight we took over last week. Hardly 1/3 full. Everyone spaced apart wearing face diapers. They constantly circulate the cabin air with outside air.
I’d say you have a much better chance at the Costco or Foodland, and if you believe masks make a big difference, then just stay out of bars/restaurants, because it is impossible to eat and drink with them on.
There is new and good evidence coming out of the Covid scientific community, that flying even with infected individuals is fairly safe. This is due to the frequent air change and the HEPA filtering onboard most of the main carriers. Check with the carrier of your choice to see how they are doing on air exchange and filtering.
I was very nervous about leaving the islands for any reason, until I started to look at the latest evidence about air travel. I feel better now.
Thank you for the update. Would you know when 14 dat quarantine rules change for those who haven’t received their test before entering the state?
Hi Mel.
We don’t know that yet but will update as soon as we do.
Aloha.
Thank you for the update! I’m traveling around Thanksgiving to visit family on Oahu. I’m very worried about how the Thanksgiving holiday is going to affect the turnover for testing labs. If the policy is changed where I don’t have my negative results when I land that means I will have to quarantine for 2 weeks which basically means no vacation. As of now if I don’t have my results when I land once i get them I can be taken off the quarantine list. I have not found any info on how Thanskgiving holiday will be handled as far delay in lab results. Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you!
Hi Andrea.
Good point. Other than checking with the labs themselves, we don’t know how that is working over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
Aloha.
Been ready for our trip since first making reservations in February. Being extremely vigilant here at home except for going to work where we are holing up inside our offices and always wearing mask. Ready to get tests using CVS,and Walgreens if we must, but the 72 hour is the largest challenge and stressful. We only have an hour in between our Seattle change of planes for second leg of trip if results are not yet in when we take off 4 hours earlier. Not fair to make people quarantine for the full 2 weeks if tests are late. We have no control over that.
Cyndi – Kauai will be here for a long time. Skip your 2020 plans to visit b/c, yes safe protocols are in place. We & our Ohana want to be safe as well as you & yours. So don’t stress about coming here now. Stay home or go elsewhere for your vacation. Mahalo.
Me too I bought my ticket in February but haven’t gone cause no way I could handle being stuck in a cage 14 days when the rest of the animals r on the loose
I hear you, but please understand that we have a large population of folks who live here and not a whole lot of medical resources. It is vital to the community that when welcoming tourists back, we do it safely. I do recommend Florida for a vacation less concerned with COVID. Aloha!
Hello ! We planning with my husband come to Hawaii ! And I want to know which test is right to take ? Cvs or Walgreens should be ok ? And if tests will not ready the time of arrival, how long we will stay for quarantine?
All these rules really stressful
I would suggest going to Walgreens and finding a location that offers the Rapid test which is accepted by Hawaii. We got tested within the 72 hour window and had our results within an hour. We sailed through the screening process when we landed.
Yeah those are approved for testing and if you don’t have results when you land you have to quarentine until they results come in. Must take test in 72 he window before flight.
People today are very self centered. The most important thing have become the exercising of ones own rights, at the cost of others. We need to be yeilding to the greater good, and in the greater interest of others. Example, if you had an adult kid, that was a recovering alcoholic, would you consider your own interest above his and have a few drinks in his presence? You do have the ‘right’ to, but wouldn’t it be more loving to consider whats in ‘his’ best interest? We need to learn to look after the interest of others, above our own interest and so called ‘rights.’ We live in a system, where we put our own selves above ALL others. Is it so hard and difficult to do what is right! My 9 year old mo’opuna never questions the importance of ‘masking’ up. She does it, because she understands, its in the best interest of not only herself, but others too. Think about it!!
We were in Hawaii on Maui and we from the mainland were more concerned with wearing a mask then the hawaiians were. Parties of 30 or more and no mask.
Trusted partners are all on the west coast & in large cities. My children would have to drive over a hundred miles to get a test & CVS/Walgreens are the only options. Major medical facilities aren’t even o n the list (ie Mayo Clinic). We can’t schedule more than 2 days out & would be impossible to get results before flying. Remember it will affect residents returning from the mainland too.
Joanne,
You have choices. Either you go the extra mile and put in the effort to comply and do what is required or don’t come. We cherish our families and our islands. We have to alter our lifestyles and tolerate priveldged attitudes most visitors bring with them. I am tired of hearing my fellow islanders having to remind you that “this ain’t the mainland.” So act accordingly and show respect. You are, after all, visiting our world. Disrespect yours hometown, but please respect ours.
Aloha
Look at Vault. You take the test at home via Zoom. They are in NJ. We had results back in 48 hrs. They are on the approved list
Please read the box that the masks come in, it clearly says that they do not protect against a microscopic virus, in addition waring a mask is detrimental to you healthy imune system! The Covid virus is real, but the pandemic is a hoax! The death rate should be the factor that influences the policy, not how many cases are reported. The gold standard PCR test is not a covid test, but a general virus test. If you have had a bad cold or Flu in the past years,you will test positive, but not have the virus. Our elected officials must realize that the lock downs are unconstitutional, and courts across the country are ruling as so. Stop the lock downs immediately, if you contract the virus, take Hydrocsycloroclin and zinc, or inhaleable steroids. Mahalo.
I am honestly concerned and dismayed by your depiction and disdain when describing how we the people of the State of Hawaii and specidically, how you describe my Island of Hawaii as begrudgingly tolerating visitors when they come.
With the number of visitors who already disrespect their own State of origin by not wearing a mask can put our families and our Islands well being at risk.
There has always been an air of previliedge some visitors travel with towards my local brothers and sisters when they come for holidays. Lately I’ve noticed a trumpian attitude and a negative vibe of hatred for people of color that they no longer feel is necessary to hide while they are here. The lack of Aloha is blatantly obvious.
I would appreciate it if you could please make it a point to include in each of your updates how important it is for them to obey our laws and respect the sensitiveites of others before they arrive and throughout their stay so we can all keep one another safe.
Mahalo Nui Loa,
Denise T.
And your grammar is the worst!! I’m a frontline RN, working with COVID patients and absolutely WEAR, not “ware” my mask 😷 for over 13 hours straight, daily and have NO ill affects from it. So please stop spreading FAKE information based on your personal beliefs and not one scientific fact! And you can’t just go pop Hydroxychloroquine whenever you want as it is a prescribed drug, which has not even been proven to work and is Not even used as part of the medications given to COVID-19 patients!!! I get sooo perturbed by these “know it all” unprofessionals, believe everything they read on the internet as they are the ones who are spreading COVID-19!! Very dangerous!
Thank you, Neil, right there with you. The world have lost their minds. I can’t believe I’m watching this unravel right before my eyes. Industries destroyed over a hoax pandemic. People are worrying about the virus that in most cases is not more serious than the cold, but soon they won’t be able to pay for their house or put food on the table.
As someone who tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, this is complete nonsense. I haven’t gotten the flu or cold in over 20 years & yet I still tested positive. My children who get sick multiple times a year tested negative for this virus (all on PCR). Your ignorance really shows regarding the masks, it’s the only way I was able to protect the rest of my family (everyone else in my household tested negative). Hopefully your ignorance will be silenced when you contract this virus and infect your loved ones.
This response is ignorant at best. Masks do protect against the exhaled water droplets containing the virus, most importantly those coming out of the mouth of an infected person who is asymptomatic.
In addition, death isn’t the only measure of what this virus can do. The long term effects have yet to be known, but many people experience blood clots, organ damage, lung scarring, and brain damage. 1 in five recovered develop mental illness.
Finally, I have no idea where you got the idea that wearing a mask harms your immune system. I’ve worked in immunology for over a decade now and I can tell you that’s not how the immune system works.
My wife had the flu in February which was confirmed by uw flu test.
She has been tested four times since then for the coronavirus with pcr test and every time it has been negative.
So your information on this point is wrong. Thanks.
yes!!! i agree
100% spot on. Gave me hope to see this “woke” comment this morning.