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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Hey tell Zuckerberg to fix it he bought 500 acres before he stole the election for biden..you fools
Yep to that.
He truly should be helping heaps.
Truly.
Wrong place for your crazy comments. Try Parler.
Not crazy—true —stolen election by the mob dems
What do you expect for a stone age culture.. per my dad’s law partner there 45 yrs ago.
Been going 49 years, sailed there and back on 52 footer and I’m done. My Japanese friends who own hotel there are fed up. They have squatters etc right on beachwalk.
Its good to hear you are done.
Good choice.
Folks dont need your attitude here..shameful.
I am afraid Kaua’i Mayor us playing politics. Lt Governor says it is no better.
All the threads I was going to post to have gone so posting here. Admins please move where appropriate.
Just arrived in Honolulu as Kauai had to be canceled. So I thought I would share my experiences.
1) Came in from overseas on American so flew from DFW.
2) Filed trip yesterday.
3) Did Health Form and received QR code.
4) Got to Testing site by D40 at 7.40 having checked in on line.
5) 5 minute wait, paid my $249 filled out a form had a swab stuck up my nose. Waited 25 minutes and got the negative result
6) They showed me how to convert to pdf and attach test result and my picture.
7) Sat in Lounge for 2 hours eating breakfast and boarded nice big Boeing 777 300 with real first class.
8) we arrived 45 minutes early
9) only bad thing, United were still at our gate and when they tried to push back it broke down so we spent 40 minutes waiting for new gate. Not Hawai’i’s fault nor American, pure United.
10) As we were delayed three flights deplaned at once so there was a long line but it was moving quickly with lots of people manning desks. I have Special Assistance due to disability so were waived straight through
11) Get to desk show QR code on phone and ID. Mahalo enjoy Hawai’i.
No stress no wondering when it will come. I cannot recommend highly enough. Hawai’i have really tried to make it as quick as possible with lots of helpful people. Not their fault United’s planes break down.
Downside is $249, upside no stress, no worrying, no quarantine threat. Absolutely first class but not everyone wants to spring $249 each for a test. I was a solo pax but a family of four, two adults and two young kids forked out almost $1000 for tests.
I was worried I had made a mistake or they would say but you have been in Mexico ( to get out of UK) but no very easy. Heartily recommend.
All the above is factual not opinion.
Thanks BOH for being an independent voice. ICU capacities on a per capita basis are nearly the same on Kauai, Maui and the Big Island. Kauai – 9 ICU beds, 70,000 people. Maui – 31 and 165,000. Big Island – 24 and 180,000. Oahu is better at 244 ICU beds and a million people. But also arguably the riskiest of all with its giant indoor spaces (apartment towers, office buildings, and hotels). Those islands haven’t shut down. And Kawakami is being proven wrong on a daily basis as case counts on the other islands – with bigger populations and more daily visitors – trend down, not up.
Hi John.
Thanks for your many comments and input on this.
Aloha.
Thank you Beat of Hawaii and thank you John for your contribution;your numbers are spot on-
Both Oahu and Maui are currently trending upwards. Maui in particular had consistently low cases before October and now has seen steady increases.
This makes me so sad and mad at the same time! The ridiculous decisions being made are ludicrous and killing this island all for a virus with a 99.8% recovery rate. Unreal.
Thanks for this info. Although visitors are not allowed on Kauai, are commercial deliveries, like Amazon, etc, allowed? Are there any restrictions or delivery problems during this isolation period?
We’re appreciative of any information you can provide.
Hi Tony.
This only impacts those individuals arriving on the island, not deliveries.
Aloha.
Than you for your regular updates on the status of life on Kauai. I have plans to return in May. Hopefully the powers that be can devise a workable solution ASAP. IMHO the current “plan” made no sense as from what I recall most positive cases were returning residents not visitors. It would be great if the decision makers were held responsible at the ballot box and in court.
Hi Peter.
Thanks for your comments. Look for something to change after the first of the year.
Aloha.
We have a commercial project on Kauai we are trying to finish. My wife and I go there every other week but that has become virtually impossible to continue. I believe we are going to abandon our project for at least a month until that crazy mayor comes to his senses.
Unfortunately the majority of locals has been brainwashed and only believe their mayor and inflated COVID news on tv and really make it uncomfortable for folks traveling over there. Thanks
Hey Kauai, keep your people safe. You have a perfect safety zone with all that beautiful ocean. Everything else can wait.
Your friend, Duane B.
U r so out of tune suckung up. They’re going to starve!
Keeping people safe means more than keeping people from traveling to Kauai. Unemployed people aren’t safe. Killing someone’s business and livelihood is worse than smartly allowing people to travel to Kauai and people to work. This does not have to be one or the other. The island needs to open under the safe travels program.
I truly don’t know what is best for Kauai here, but this article does not present an accurate picture of the tradeoffs involved. Kauai ended its participation in the program due to the results of post-travel testing conducted a few days after arrival (which allows for incubation periods). Kauai is the *only island* that conducted such testing, is the only island that had previously non-existent community spread, and has the most limited healthcare capacity out of them all. Presenting only the statewide numbers as evidence of the program’s effectiveness, as Green has been doing, is clearly disingenuous.
It would be helpful for your readers to understand the reasoning here. The mayor is truly between a rock and a hard place: keeping closed will lead to economic devastation, but opening up to the safe travels program has a large chance of kicking off an irreversible spike of coronavirus and significant death.
My personal guess: the Governor approves the post-travel test+quarantine proposal in January just for Kauai, and tourism ends up truly returning as people are vaccinated.
You speak of death, which I believe Kauai might have only one with COVID-19. However, how many deaths due to suicide have there been? How many due to stress that have caused by other health problems? Not to mention the financial hardships, which can cause long term health problems down the road. There’s no way of knowing, but my guess is there will be many more deaths due to the Kauai Mayor’s response to COVID. We own property there and we were coming back in May, but that’s probably not going to happen. We won’t be back until vaccinations are accepted with no masks. They don’t work anyway!
Aloha for now!!!
Masks don’t work? LOL