Hawaii official suggests visitors to Hawaii be tested 3 days before arriving. Many questions remain.
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How long do you think it will be before we can fly without worrying about 14 day quar antine in Hawaii?
Here’s a thought to gradually open the economy and local tourism. Hawaii is currently very low in daily infected numbers and, the infection rate is an average of .92, meaning on average an infected person transmits to less than one other individual. After lifting shelter in place on all islands, first allow/even encourage business travelers inter island for two months, measure impacts, then if promising, open the other islands for inter island “staycations”. The modest boost to the economy and another two months of wait-and-see would justify than domestic (U.S.)-only visitors for the balance of the year.
My question is… where does it stop. Test for this vi rus, leads to other.. do we test for TB, Flu, Measles, Pox.. on and on. Even other restrictions. Yes you are an Island but you are part of the USA.
People will go elsewhere or stay at home.
First thing’s first, nothing and I mean nothing is as important as herd immunity, no vaccine, testing, social distancing, hand sanitizer or masks work as good as high levels of herd immunity. That said, people will be infected, most won’t even know it, some will have mild to severe symptoms and tragically some will die. Unless we’re all traveling and living our lives in haz-mat suits with respirators..we all will come into contact with it. This comment comes from a bio-chem background with lots of microbiology as well. While all these restrictions may help a little, it’s not foolproof…for instance:a thousand vi rus particles can pass right through the cloth masks we’re all being forced to wear. I believe our state governors are power drunk and I for one can’t wait until November voting time. This state as well as many others should be open for business so the 30% or so of the people can get back to work and have a sense of pride again instead of being forced to wait in food lines for hours. We shouldn’t let the cure be worse than the disease. Take care everyone.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
In hindsight, we should have done very little in response to this, certainly not shut the economy down. Other than take steps to safeguard the vulnerable people, the goal should have been to develop herd immunity. We should have wanted it to spread fast. It would be interesting to know how many of those that had no or only mild symptoms, and how many deaths were really that. I think the overwhelming majority, nearly all of them, are of people that underlying co-morbidities, and they often count the death of anyone with this (or pneumonia) as a COVID death, even if that played almost no role.
And the number of new cases means nothing. Were they asymptomatic, had mild symptoms, or what?
My husband and I would be very happy to be tested right before boarding a flight to HI. I’ve been suggesting this for months. You can’t let any infected people in and this would help your beautiful State get back to work. WE are so sad about all the unemployment in Hawaii, but thankful your cases haven’t been as bad as in other areas of the country.
Y’all are making it WAY to difficult to come spend our money in your state. Time to find a new favorite place to visit.
I have an idea, but I’m sure I’ll get kickback from some folks. I think a good way to start the visitor opening would be with people who own timeshares or intervals. I am one of those, and if we can’t go, we will lose the opportunity completely, and it will be a financial loss. People like us have made a commitment to Hawaii, and we go every year. We go for 5 weeks each summer, between Hawaii Island, Maui and had planned to go to Kauai this year on July 17. I love reading all your articles and info! We absolutely love Hawaii! Mahalo
As a yearly plus visitor to Hawaii, I would not be willing to travel there, or anywhere, as long as the 14 day isolation requirement is in effect. It is a requirement I support so I guess I’ll take staycations until there is a vaccine. I’ll miss you beautiful Hawaii.
Maybe have people quar antine before going and certify to that effect? Whatever they come up with have lots of issues. But I understand that they don’t want to open things up all the way and get overwhelmed by a huge spike in cases with the limited resources there. We’ll see whether we can go in August. Things will not be back to “normal” for a very long time I’m afraid.
Until you have a vaccine or effective therapeutics, it will be very difficult to resume travel without any infected visitors slipping through. A rapid testing program like the reported Abbott test seems to be the best bet. On arrival, take a quick test, quarantine in room until receiving results later that day.