Hawaii official suggests visitors to Hawaii be tested 3 days before arriving. Many questions remain.
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We will be traveling from Nome, Alaska to Honolulu in Julyen route our our home in the Midwest. Would test be available at smaller airports like Nome, would we self report the results to a website? Would we get an authorization code or some documentation that we passed the test within the 3 day time period? We love the islands and hope to make it back this year. Thank you!
We are supposed to come to Hawaii in July. I really hope we can but only if beaches are open and there’s no 14 day quar antine. I don’t think many tourists would come if this is the case, there’s no point if u can’t enjoy yourself. I would take a test but only if it meant I could enjoy my vacation
The state already has protocol for insuring animals dont bring in unwanted disease. Decide on a protocol for tourist, issue a wristband upon landing, and let the dollars flow. This had better happen quickly. I am appalled that “abundance of caution” and “safety” are used as excuses to destroy working people and business owners lives!
Now I have been told that all these precautions are because Hawaii doesn’t have medical facilities. Maui only has 200 hospital beds and Kauai only 100 or so. If there is an outbreak they are ill equipped to handle it. Maybe they should have spent all of our tourist dollars and tourist taxes on medical facilities while they could. But to sell us a timeshare and then say we can’t go use it? Or rent a beach condo and then not use what we paid for? What makes them think that tourists are going to all end up in hospitals?
I feel like hawaii has balked at tourists visiting. I will not be visiting anytime soon
Tests are at best 95% accurate. I have a family of
4. I am not committing to a $10k investment with a 20% chance of losing all of it.
Also: tests are absolutely not available to those without very clear symptoms.
Also: tests 3 days prior (or even on arrival) won’t help with the most likely source of catching the infection: travel itself.
I love Hawai’i and desperately wish I could afford to Live there or at least visit this year.
I just don’t think it’s possible.
Hoping to visit in September for 2 weeks. Wanting to go to Oahu and Kauai. Local girl wanting to spend some time visiting my home land.
Aloha, My wife and I come to Hawaii every year, often we find ourselves in Hawaii twice in a calendar year. We understand the stated concerns, but we vote with our dollars. We will not be tested, contact traced or vac cinated, and if that means the end of our travels to Hawaii, so be it. The constitutional challenges will be interesting; many state governors have not been able to resist the power grab that this over hyped flu has presented. General Hara is far more astute than your average politician. I’ll leave it at that.
Mahalo
Cocky if I’ve ever heard it-
I would gladly get tested before a visit
My hubby and I are planning a trip to Oahu in November. But if I have to be “tested” before boarding a plane, I won’t go. We don’t do this for the flu, colds or anything else. I think there’s a ton of political fear-mongering, from BOTH sides, and we need to let people get back to their lives. Yes, I understand the risk to certain people – I’m one of those. I have two non-contagious lung diseases plus asthma. I understand the risk to me. But people need to work in order to feed their family and tourism is a huge part of that for the people of Hawaii.
I totally agree! I have diabetes so i know the risks as well, take them every flu season. Hopefully they will open hawaii for tourists with beaches open and no 14 day quar antine. They will decimate their economy if they don’t get tourists. The hot humid weather will slow spread of vi rus.
How long is the 14 day quar antine going to last? I was reading an article about getting tested 3 days prior to departure? Is it that the way to bypass the 14 day quar antine; if you have the 3 day testing in effect as implemented.
We realize this is the lack of leadership at the federal government. I am starting to think that coming to hawaii at all this year may not happen sadly.