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Until we have a Vac cine. Temperature checks prior to departure at gate check-in, and rapid tests upon landing in Hawaii. Mask to be worn when outside with social distancing. This is the same, mainland or Hawaii. Feel free to add additional safety protocols and procedures. The cost to do all this would be much less than the economic impact this is having to residents who are out of work and the small businesses who with every passing day may never re-open causing real unemployment. There is no difference past 30 days except if were going to wait until the Vac cine is ready. I don’t understand what a month at a time buys us if we’re not making progress. We’re smarter than this.
The state of Hawaii has already flattened their curve and is in the top 5 states best positioned to begin reopening according to University of Washington modeling. The fact that the Governor has not published the metrics he is using to restart tourism is unconscionable considering the state relies on tourism for more than 20% of the economy. The state should be much farther ahead in opening considering they could be doing it with minimal additional risk.
Only 20%? That number doesn’t seem quite right. Mahalo
Hi Michael.
That was according to the Civil Beat.
Aloha.
I agree that we want Hawaii to do things safely, and not cause any problems for either residents or tourists, and certainly not spark another rash of cases. We’ve been coming to Kauai for 20 years and loving it, and definitely don’t want anything to happen, especially to the residents. This is certainly disappointing, we’ve had reservations for a year to go to Kauai the last week of August to celebrate one of those BIG birthdays, but this is not the time for selfish thoughts. I agree that realistically it will take close to 2 months to get everything going once the go-ahead is given – and as much as we want to help stimulate their economy (we usually do), we should wait until the residents are ready to have us, and to welcome us. We hope to see you next year, or whenever you are ready.
So the big island of Hawaii will be opened by July
Aloha Lupe, sorry to differ, but the Big Island will open for tourism whenever the rest of the state does, not sooner. This is a State level decision. As the article describes, there is no telling when tourism will be opened again in the State of Hawaii. It could be July, but it also could easily drag until fall or later. It depends, among other things, on whether we can find a solution for testing incoming travelers.
Please open up tourism in a reasonable amount of time . Our family has a trip scheduled Aug 8 and would be devastated if we had to cancel. We are willing to take test before boarding from the mainland. We did not pay all this money to just sit in a hotel for 14 days. Extremism is not good. It will permanently kill your economy. Caution is good but not paranoia and extreme measures.
As a senior citizen I can tell you that 10,000 people turn age 65 everyday and 9000 people die on the average day. I face drunk drivers, crime, cancer, etc each day but I am not afraid to live. Let’s use some common sense and allow nature to continue. I contracted NORA virus on a flight to Hawaii several years ago and almost died in my hotel room. The wonderful staff at the Kauai Hospital ER knew what to do and after a short recovery I was able to continue my wonderful vacation. Stay closed thru 2020? maybe it would be better to stay closed through 2021 or even 2022? Better yet, let all the wealthy folks who are happily looking out their windows at the beautiful Hawaii landscape just give their money to the poor working folks of Hawaii who will continue to struggle without tourists. Let’s just use common sense!
I have a flight to Maui 7/24-8/11 but southwest is so awesome they not only allow me to change my flight but also airports. For the most part it is free if you take the cheaper options.
I think it is a really tricky question and it depends on how the pan demic progresses in those urban areas where most of Hawai’i tourism comes from. (i.e., SF Bay Area, Seattle, New York, Tokyo, etc. etc.) Yes, we can “re-open” now, but what if there really is another wave in these places in fall and winter? What if Dr. Bright is correct with his “dark winter” prediction? Then, we won’t be open very long. A few months at best. But we will swamp our health care system with cases and we will put many of our first responders at huge risk. A friend is a nurse in Maui Memorial where we had a big cluster outbreak. She just got tested the third time, and she says nurses there are terrified.
Thank you for the topic. Please don’t open Hawaii travel until there is a vac cine. It is just too dangerous to risk the health of the Hawaiian population. We can’t risk the life of even one more person. We are all in this together. Hawaii tourists are just too dangerous until there is a cure for this disease. Please don’t put profits ahead of human life. Thank you for distancing, wearing masks and washing your hands, even if it takes years, we have to save lives. Stay away save lives.
The economy will never recover if you wait 2 years. That’s just insane to think that is reasonable .
ARE YOU SERIOUS????
I was just telling my children that we (as older persons who have lived a good long life) would gladly give up our lives to save their lives. By that I mean THEIR WAY OF LIFE – the way we have worked so hard to create for them. If we close up the world – where will we end up? We will all be looking for food in garbage cans. It all has a trickle down effect. We can keep printing money by the trillions and expect things to improve. We can’t HIDE from this. We have to live through it. If some of us – and mostly the older ones among us – don’t survive – well, something out there will get us eventually anyway. Just the way it is in this old world. But to destroy life as we know it because we are ‘running scared’ is ludicrous.
Well spoken, Colleen.
I agree with Colleen. What will happen to all of the people on the islands who have no jobs, no money, lose their homes, cars, etc? So then they can’t buy food, or gas, so the grocery stores close, the gas stations close, they won’t be able to pay state employed workers, because the state will have no income from taxes. I don’t think the independently wealthy on the islands will stay if there is no food, no restaurants, no modern conveniences. The state has to reopen, this is becoming the life and death situation very quickly!
Yes! This is exactly what my 65 years old Dad has been saying. He is willing to take the risk if it means keeping our way of life. We haven’t all worked this hard just to see it all fall apart. I don’t want to see my children suffer financially because we were too scared to go outside. Average age of Co vid death patient = average life expectancy in the US!
Good Points!
Nobody publicly talks about the some 50-60% of the neighbors, friends, job site workers, church members, retired military etc having symptoms and being unusually sick back in Nov-Feb, before anybody knew what the symptoms implied. All these people recovered after 3/4 weeks and went back to work…..until the cruise ships with confirmed cases stopped visiting and the stay at home started. Perhaps island life in the sun and high humidity (reported to weaken this) make for healthy bodies with strong immune system Has Hawaii has already hit herd immunity? 🙏🏼🌈
Until an antibody test is available to all, we may never know. Our son and wife traveled to Canada and he was VERY ill for 3-4 weeks after he returned home in January. Fever, chills, horrible congestion, terrible cough. He feels he had it. His wife got sick but not as sick. They both recovered well. So, WHO KNOWS how many have already has this bug. But Herd immunity is the ticket. We certainly WON’T be the first in line to take any vac cine they have ‘fast tracked’ through the system. No way!!
you might want to read this and enlighten yourself on what Herd immunity is and means.
Please realize we have had only one day with no new cases of the illness. Yesterday there were three more. Residents do not feel safe allowing visitors to fly in. Please do not strain the aloha. We are not open to any but ohana.
Aloha!!!
Stay closed through the rest of 2020!!! As hard as that may be it would be the smart move!!! Everyone that loves Hawai’i should understand that and any visitors would be keen to cancel or reschedule any plans until there is a clearer picture on the situation… Opening things to soon has already proven time and again it does not work, yet, the almighty dollar will make the decision as always!!!
Aloha and thank you for the article. I live in California but have a home on Kauai. I am very concerned about the people and the economic mess for the businesses. The longer visitors have to come and quar antine whether sick or not, the longer it will take to get things up and running.
Most people from California have also be sheltering in place already since mid March. We would love to get to our Kauai home, not only to be there, but to help with stimulating the economy. No visitors and the island will be significantly crippled as people who aren’t making money cannot spend to help the economy get going. So sad for our friends and family as leaders make decisions that seem extreme given other diseases cause great devastation as well. Stay safe! Mahalo!
Hi Lisa.
Thank you.
Aloha.
Hi Lisa,
you can access your Kauai real estate even today, simply submit to the 14 days. I totally understand the sentiment — we all have our favorite local businesses that we’d live to keep around. Here in Kailua Kona, there is already a talk about many precious stores, bars, and retailers not coming back. On the other hand, a lot of shops seem to have a tough time opening back up. Owners are just too uncertain and fearful about the future, take baby steps, worry about liability, etc. etc.. In some of our prime tourist zones, such as our precious little Kailua Kona village district where I live, there are just not enough local residents like me to jump start opening most of our restaurants. Owners say privately they depend on a large tourist stream to just pay rent and cover employee costs. So it’s a chicken and egg problem…
Take Care
GOV IGE IS IN … ” way over his pay grade ” ….
Hard to believe the people of Hawaii, who are so dependent on tourism, are not being more vocal and demanding more answers from the Governor. I would expect protesting in the streets!! With required screening before flying, mask requirements, etc., surprised the state would not be one of the early states to partially open restaurants with masks and distancing.
I have a condo booked for July 16- 23 for Kauai. Is this going to too early? I’ve had to rebook from April Looks like I’m caught in the storm again.
Thank you for keeping us informed
Hi Sheree.
Thanks for the question. We’ll be letting you know everything we learn, just as quickly as possible.
Aloha.
Aloha🌺 Why don’t the good citizens from the state of Hawaii recall their governor and see if they can get some real leader ship in place? I fear you guys are running out of time to get it together, as anyone I know who was planning to visit Hawaii is now making alternate plans. Best of luck in living with the consequences of your Hawaiian government elections.
Correct. We two weeks planned in October and have already considered canceling our stay. Can’t seem to get any clarification from our resort manager on what to expect so in order to meet our cancelation date we need to make a decision by first of August.
John H
We, also, are seriously ‘rethinking’ our 2021 trip to the islands. Too much hassle. Too costly. TOO INCONVENIENT – masks, testing, quarantines, and whatever else they can think up to ‘make travel fun…..’Keep things closed down another few months – or, heaven forbid, an entire year. Few businesses will survive that. Oh, maybe Uncle Sam will just bail everyone out to the tune of a few hundred trillion dollars. YIKES!
Thinking the ‘great American Road Trip’ is sounding better all the time.
Hi Colleen.
We will miss you! So please stay in touch.
Aloha.
We will. :0)
As a local citizen of Hawaii we feel when it’s time for visitors to start returning here might be a while because we have no cure and we don’t want are people here to get sick!Wright know we have no cases thank god we live in Paradise in the middle of the ocean! Mahalo
Lori,
We will wait till its safe for all. We want to come badly but not at the risk to hawaiins or ourselves so we will be patient 🙂 Be safe
Sorry to hear you have been inconvenienced.Fortunately, you have other options. Georgia and Florida have nice beaches. The black hills are beautiful in the summer.
We have a trip to Kaua’i planned for October and very much hope we can make it. However, every time we talk about it I can’t help but remember that the one and only time in my life I caught the flu was the year (’91) that we flew from SEA to HNL with a plane full of elderly, and mostly ill, WWII vets on their way to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Ended up in the ER on Lana’i and spent two weeks in bed on Kaua’i. I’m not getting on a plane this year unless it is obvious beyond doubt that it’s safe to do so. If we miss this year we can try for next year.
I live in South Carolina, people are dying every day. Please wait it out. God bless.
People were dying every day in South Carolina BEFORE this… right? So, I think what you mean to say is “a few more people than normal” are dying every day. Which, of course, we already know. South Carolina has a fairly low overall death rate (72 per million) at the moment… though still far higher than Hawaii’s (12 per million).
To be clear, Hawaii’s 12 per million has barely changed in weeks as there have been virtually ZERO new deaths here in quite a while (specifically attributed to the vi rus). Which begs the question: If your mortality rate from this is essentially ZERO–as it is here in Hawaii–then why stay shut down a minute longer? Every day that passes, the state sinks deeper and deeper and deeper into a financial hole–that we’ll never be able to crawl out of. (Due to previous and current complete mismanagement of public funds, Hawaii was already around 5 BILLION in debt BEFORE this.)
Scientifically, statistically, and medically there are currently no valid arguments for maintaining or extending the 14 day quar antine for ALL arrivals on the islands, or for continuing the pointless and fruitless shut downs here.
Wondering if the states with the lousiest fiscal health aren’t the same ones biding their time and milking this situation for all it is worth in the name of ‘safety’ hoping for a ‘bail out’ of the fiscal hole they have dug for themselves. Something far more dire is behind this than ‘ human safety’ – we won’t know the real truth for 40 years – after we are all long gone. It will be covered up nicely until then.
the reason is that 20 MILLION visitors come to the islands each year. DO try and keep up
some just DONT GET IT sad huh!?
I believe people are coming to Hawaii everyday. Once here, they quarantine at their hotel for 14 days, then they are free to do as they wish – with a mask on in many instances. So, what’s the problem. Come, enjoy the best weather on the planet, the warm ocean water, pristine uncrowded beaches, plenty of good take out food and some limited shopping. What more coud one want.
So glad we cancelled our July 4th trip to Kauai. Ridiculous. Anyone who goes there this year is gonna be in for a rude awakening.
I have reserved tickets for 4 with Hawaiian Air to Honolulu for 5 nights starting on June 3rd which can’t be modified or cancelled. What is my best option at this point? Please help! Can I possibly cancel the flight and get refund?
Hi Peter.
You may have seen the many hundreds of comments we have received on this topic. What people reported the best results on was to connect with the airline via direct messaging in social media. Given that there will still be a 14-day isolation, we’re hopeful that you will be able to be accommodated. Let us know.
Aloha.
Helpful info. Thank you. We have a time interval condo at The Whaler, Kaanapali. 14 day quar antine with no stop at a grocery store obviously means we can’t come this year. Not the people before us. Not the folks all the way back to the beginning of this. Plus, family on Big Island can’t use condo because even HA residents must quar antine for 14 days. Ridiculous. I feel sorry for us but my heart breaks for the people of Hawaii. Will your economy ever recover under the radical leadership of your governor? Not for a long time. Tragic.
Don’t cry for us, Argentina. If we were dumb enough to tank our own economy, we deserve everything we get.
NO ONE is tanking any economy on purpose.
I am profoundly grateful to live in Kauai where citizens health is more important that tourist dollars. I get it, its hard. You might want your readers to realize that we have a small hospital and something like 21 ventilators.
Amen. Thank you.
I have lost all trust in our government leaders. Our Governor is clueless and our Maui Mayor thinks he’s some kind of modern-day Ali’i. I can’t wait until the next election cycle to get some people in there that have more common sense that what these guys are showing.
When do you expect the quar antine to end on Oahu/Honolulu?
Honolulu just extended shelter in place till June 39. 14 day quar antine will apply till at least that date
So disappointing and my heart goes out to all the unemployed families. One of the main issues is so-called, “mission creep”. US saw it happen in Vietnam and WW1. In part, because of lack of federal decisioning and in part because of these Governors’ power grab, the goal posts keep moving on all of us. In March, we were all told the shutdown was to flatten the curve and allow the healthcare and medical communities time to catch up with this new disease. Build up supplies. We were never told that, as a condition to RE-opening, that there would need to be a cure/treatment/vac cine. Saying that in March would have caused widespread anxiety across the US and considerable damage to the economy (more so than now).
Ige and the these other controlling governors need to put the best healthcare practices in place and take the restrictions off the republic. Let the market decide for themselves if jumping on an airplane to Hawaii is best right now. Many will decide it’s not. Protect the most vulnerable and give people the right to decide…let them get back to work and provide and be productive. The extra $600/week will run dry before too long.
Well said friend! I have a ton of family and friends in healthcare and while this is contagious, it is very weak and easily treated in a prompt fashion – of course if one has many comorbidities, one is especially vulnerable. You need to look at the facts over fear, and look at the number of people that have recovered and not constantly at the death toll pushed into peoples faces to literally scare the life out of them:(… You risk your life walking out the door each day. Put common sense Protocols in place; isolate and protect the most vulnerable ( eg. elderly, those with certain co-morbidities; don’t isolate the healthy… And let the good citizens of the United States decide any risks they’re willing to take, as a free person living in a land of liberty🇺🇸
85000 citizens dead as of today. So if its so EASY to treat why that many dead? DO YOU REALIZE that anyone can be asymptomatic show no signs of the illness and pass it along to you healthy or not? COME ON!
You clearly don’t undrestand that the numbers are tainted. The total deaths have never been accurate, due to overzealous CDC guidelines. Hospitals and medical facilities have been encouraged to document c0vid cases and deaths. They are paid 13k per c0vid treatment, and 39k per c0vid treatment on ventilators.
Some states are walking back their numbers. They realize it was not accurate to report deaths, if the death was not caused by this disease. Thousands of deaths have been reported, without being the true cause of death. It’s naive to think that the number of deaths is accurate, at this point.
It’s even more so to not understand that the longer this goes on there will be far more death from the collateral damage of being shutdown. Suicides are already up, and on Kauai 4 young men decided to end their lives in one week earlier this month. With an annual average of 16 state wide, that’s extremely concerning.
I truly hope you can break free from the regular scheduled programming and expand your knowledge and experience with this disease and how it has/will affect others lives long term. There are over 200k jobs in Hawaii that depend on Tourism. Most are locals that need to feed their families.
Aloha and Mahalo
Hi Jim.
Our thanks for your dozens of comments over the years.
Aloha.
Re temperature testing
The key to reopening the economy in the short run is TEMPERATURE TESTING both personally and before anyone can do anything. Everyone should test their temperature every day in the morning and if it is over 100 degrees get a cv test and self isolate until they get the results. ALL businesses and schools should also require a temperature check of EVERYONE prior to entry, and if the temperature is over 100 degrees they should be denied entry, and then be required get a cv test and self isolate until they get the results. A positive cv test means self isolation for 14 days at least, and until they are symptom free (and their temperature is under 100 degrees).
This will also decrease the pressure on cv testing since there are not enough tests now. Many countries, businesses and the military do temperature testing now, and this was the protocol at the White House as well earlier. The only alternative to temperature testing is to continue the sick cv “blind date with death” to open the economy that we have now.
The other CDC recommendations should continue as well. Distancing, good hygiene (hand washing) and masks should be required everywhere.
I appreciate your attention to this urgent matter. Open up Hawaii now.
Pray tell how will you know who is Asymptomatic? Not by the way your demanding hawaii open back up
Start small. Keep the number of visitors coming in to a maximum amount each day. Whatever the authorities feel they can safely handle. There are only a few flights coming and going now and they are blocking off half of the seats. I would certainly be happy to get tested and bring proof of that in order to board a plane to Hawaii. Distancing and Wearing masks while in stores, hotels or other businesses has become a normal, daily routine for most of us so there is no reason why we can’t continue these safe practices in Hawaii. Hotels and condo’s could also keep guest counts to a manageable and practical number. I’m sure there may be some folks who still haven’t cancelled their flights for June (since airlines haven’t cancelled) so start with those small, manageable numbers and see how things go. A small, soft opening is better than none at all and can get at least a few people back to work.
hi there. can you please check your crystal ball. we are planning a trip for march of 2021. we already have the booking.thinking of planning on planes in November. does this make sense? please your thoughts and thanks for the great website. so appreciate it.
Hi Mary.
Thanks for your many comments. The world isn’t predictable and neither is Hawaii. We want to say of course it will be fine, but then again, we wouldn’t have ever expected to be in this mess.
Aloha.
I have flights and reservations to Kauai for August 8th – 18th, with reservations at Koa Kai, think that’s too early?
Thanks,
Jay
Hi Jay.
We should know within the next month. Hate to predict.
Aloha.
U HOPE
had KONA res for the coming week….
.ain’t gonna happen…..CANCELLED a few weeks back
Reopening is obvious. It’s obvious the chokepoint will be air travel. When they figure out a way to keep infected people off planes – everywhere – people will feel safe to travel. Distancing on an airplane is not possible. Hawaii, international travel and cruises require airplanes. When that is solved, the world will reopen.
Aloha from Maui! I believe one of the first questions that must be answered is could each island be able to provide adequate medical care in the event of an uptake of infections. The shortage of facilities and medical staff makes that a resounding no. Our county has one primary hospital which was also the hot spot of infection spread. Even though we survived that I do not believe enough has been done to deal with a tourist influx without severe restrictions.
Really Lynda? Can you cite any sources or facts to back up your position. Because, on the big island, for example, we’ve been told repeatedly that there are around 450 total hospital beds on the island… and yet to date have only had a handful of patients requiring hospitalization–in TOTAL–from DAY 1–and currently have between 0 and 1 patience in hospital on the island. So… where are these “shortages” you speak of located in Hawaii? If anything, 2+ months into the so-called “pan demic”, all I see in Hawaii–and most places around the country–is excess health care capacity–and masses of completely healthy-yet-unemployed people.
Look at the mainland and the lack of guidence and dangerous conditions being promoted by some gov’t officials. The moment you open the gates, the cases in Hawaii will start to increase. Tough choices ahead.
We have been frequent visitors to Maui now for years, we have booked our vacation way in advance (last year) to visit this July 2-9th I’m hoping that Maui tourism is back up and running as we have already planned where all our money will be spent there as well. If we have to cancel of course we will reschedule but I think the sooner the better.
That was when our trip was scheduled and we booked it a year in advance as well. There was no way were were going there with the quar antine as well as everything nonoperational. Thank goodness we got our airfare back from Alaska as well as our VRBO deposit
This decision is THE most important economic decision that the State must face. Here’s the rub. Opening up to tourism without some level of caution flies in the face of advice from public health experts. While numerous states are allowing full opening and returning to regular large social contacts (see Wisconsin’s Supreme Court decision where bar hopping went crazy the day after), a resurgence of cases is inevitable. So other states’ decisions about their citizens means that Hawaii’s caution would be to no avail.
I’m hurting. My business is hurting. We want the safe return of our visitors.
Judging from the action of your State’s leadership I get the distinct impression Hawaii doesnt want tourists.
Aloha Kalani. I believe Hawaii wants tourists when the time is right. If opened too soon, we might see a resurgence of this that could far outnumber the cases, and deaths we’ve previously seen. Nobody wants that, no matter how much our businesses are hurting. I’m sure people coming to the islands also want to know they’re safe. Beaches, restaurants, etc. must be safe for all concerned. Please come when you can truly enjoy the beauty and aloha of Hawaii. Mahao, and be safe.
Hawaii NEVER “wants” tourists. It simply cannot live without their money.
Hawaii appears hopelessly lost, trying to decide how and when all-important mainland tourism will resume.
That in a nutshell is everything you need to know about Hawaiian politics. Since virtually every elected office in this Deep Blue…they look for Party “unit” (read consensus) before taking a position. No one wants to be seen as walking out of line for fear that their next elected position will not get Party support. If not Party support you have no chance to win.
Ige has proven incapable of making the critical big tough decisions – Rail, TMT, COVID. He is bound tight by a cultural consensus paradigm.
Stated before and will do so again:
The goal of flattening the curve, for the thousandth time, was to avoid swamping the health system. If we’re now shifting the argument to “buying time” so we can develop a therapeutic or vac cine, let’s say that out loud — and then let’s hear some prospective timelines.
Because here’s the problem: if we’re just waiting while tens of millions of people lose their jobs, and fall into poverty and despair, and we have no timeline, that’s not a plan.
That’s just hope. And hope isn’t a plan.
“The goal of flattening the curve, for the thousandth time, was to avoid swamping the health system. If we’re now shifting the argument to “buying time” so we can develop a therapeutic or vac cine, let’s say that out loud — and then let’s hear some prospective timelines.” <- the moving goal line is a big part of the problem, both in HI and beyond.
The rhetoric in CA (where I live) has absolutely left the "flattening the curve" line and has basically said we're trying to stomp out the vi rus. That ain't happening if we continue to merely shelter in place while waiting for a hypothetical treatment/vac cine — leaving alone the impending livelihood/economic catastrophe if said treatment is a non-negotiable.
There is simply no guarantee of effective vac cine/treatment… ever. We need serious thinkers to find a way to live *with this* and not hide until we can [hopefully] eradicate it.
Hoping Hawaii and beyond realizes this and is willing to establish public policy that can be reconciled with this reality.
I’ve been checking everyday to see what Hawaii is going to do. We are scheduled to come in July and I thought, certainly by mid to end of July we’ll be fine… but now I’m not so sure! 🥴
We had to put off our May 1st thru 11th trip to Honolulu. We were disappointed but TOTALLY are on board with not only our safety but the safety of all the locals. We are hoping to be able to come in September so we are tentatively rebooking our flights. Fingers crossed!
We look forward to enjoying all the touristy things for a few days then we plan to visit local everything restaurants you name it! We want to be sure and spread the money we bring with us around the islands so that everyone can benefit from our visit.
The lack of movement in Hawaii is very discouraging to all of us. Being an island does have benefits as numbers were lower than many states on the mainland. The lack of any direction form state executives to have at least a plan in place (you have not had more than 10000 visitors since you shut airlines down (except for cargo) tells me the public needs to start voicing concern that a vital portion of the economy is not bringing in revenue. Handouts and printing of money is not the answer as the world slips on by Hawaii.
Being on Maui, I can attest to how ‘lost’ the State’s response appears, which is then put on the County’s shoulders to work out viable solutions that take into account the fine balance between the health and safety of its citizens with the urgency of reopening the economy.
By the way, big props to the Lt. Governor, he is doing a great job at keeping us informed in regards to this, I wish Ige had others in his administration to take charge on the economic front.