What we see happening on Kauai without toursim, from our local perspective, during the 10-day quarantine.
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What we see happening on Kauai without toursim, from our local perspective, during the 10-day quarantine.
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Please work with Kauai’s mayor and give us readers the island’s small businesses web sites so we can support them. Can’t help restaurants unless they offer foods that can be shipped to the mainland. Paintingsbymarcia.etsy.com has beautiful plumeria and scenic watercolor note cards and mat-mounted paintings by a Kauai artist for sale. Please post other local Kauai businesses that offer e-trader commerce.
Hi Lee.
Can we also suggest the Hawaii Foodbank on Kauai. https://hawaiifoodbank.org/kauai/.
Aloha.
Tell the mayor and governor to give their salaries.
HaHaHaHaHaHa … Good One!
I’m a Hawaii physician & I can’t even keep up with the ever-changing Covid-19 testing rules, nor the logic (if any) behind the frequent changes. I had seven (7) house guests last month from the mainland: all tested negative before arrival, and all tested negative upon arrival to Kona (free rapid testing @ Kona Airport), so zero problems. I think that Hilo airport does the same. So why can’t Kauai do both the pre-arrival & post-arrival mandatory, double testing & save their island from economic misery?
This is heartbreaking to see my beloved Island suffer so. Hopefully with the vaccines we can beat this, but hope it won’t be too late.
Aloha- my husband & I just returned from a 6-day trip to Maui. We encountered no problems coming & going; little to no line for Hawaii Covid test check-in table at the airport (flying out, I observed the line was WAAAY Long!). Most if not all restaurants we have frequented in the past were open & indoor dining was a go; of course outside patios are always the best. Sad to see a lot of closed business in Lahaina Town:(- not sure if they will re-open. Saw quite a few new restaurants in place of previous ones that were there last year. All locals we encountered were very happy to see us and full of warm Aloha! Now for Kauai – Geez, I would be afraid to step toes on the island at any point in the near future as your Mayor apparently wants it completely destroyed. The lives lost in Kauai due to Covid will be nothing compared to the lives lost due to lost livelihoods, lost homes, hunger, mental illness, substance abuse, etc…Why is the governor hyper-focused on fatalities (only one Covid death last I read) and NOT on the longterm destruction, devastation and chaos of Covid closures/lockdowns? I feel so Sad for the people of Kauai- do most locals support the mayor’s decisions??? I think the open Islands will slowly recover as people continue to feel confident to travel there. Every visitor we talked to was very happy to be there & support the local businesses with much needed money. I hope Kauai can get it together before it really is too late.
Bread lines yet? My hear aches for the people. Better plant a garden
The food bank lines for un and under employed people and their families on Kauai have been long and growing. It is real. But for the older retired set, stock portfolios and 401Ks are at all time highs, so why should they be exposed to any COVID risk, however small? Why should they have to worry when they go to Costco or Safeway? 9 ICU beds, etc.
I will say this, the Bistro owner’s strategy has paid off. Not only keeping tourists out, but the all day hour prices and the Friday night Prime Rib special. Place has been packed every time we go there. That is supposed to end at the beginning of January.
Is there a list of businesses that have closed?
Until you start voting out leftests that care about nothing but themselves you will get poverty.
You get what you vote for!!!! We will not be coming to the islands again. There are plenty of other choices for us to visit that want our business and appreciate us.
Since 1980 & 2004 Kauai has been our 2nd Ohana. I feel the sorrow & pain the Chinese virus has inflicted on the Hawaiian economy & friends. We & sons,families cannot visit. The island of Kauai is so loved, cherished & the beauty and spiritual island is extremely missed. Were from the potato state Idaho. Hope the vaccine, testing will open up Kauai soon .Merry Christmas John
John T.>>>
Your sympathy for Kauai is immediately offset by your calling Covid19 the “Chinese Virus”. Total contradiction in philosophies – you can’t be sympathetic to one ethnicity and disrespectful of another and claim to “love” and “cherish” something!
Thanks so much for all the updates. Kauai is not unlike a lot of areas. The cure is worst than the problem. Politicians forget how hard it is to be in business and how much they contribute to the local life. It’s very easy to collect your full pay and dictate others out of their livelihoods. So do locals who do not directly benefit from the tourist industry. In the long run the ill advised second shut down will hurt the most as tourists will not return until this is over. I hope that’s not too late for the businesses that are hurting so bad
You don’t and I do and he has done the right thing.