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I will receive the first vaccine before traveling to Maui in January but will not have received my second dose at time of travel. Any info on whether I’ll still need a covid test after one vaccination?
Julie
Vaccine passports = fascism.
Hi there,
When I first read this article, it sounded like it was saying that vaccinations would be a requirement to come to Hawaii starting February 1. When I read it again, I think what it’s saying is that other requirements wouldn’t be necessary with vaccinations, such as quarantining. (I’m coming to Maui January 24 for a couple weeks and wondering if there’s a mandatory quarantine there now?)
Anyway, I have a couple friends who are also concerned about whether vaccines will be mandatory to come to Hawaii anytime in the near future. Considering they haven’t been proven safe or for that matter even necessarily effective, that does not sound like a sound policy.
Appreciate you educating us on this.
Thank you,
Kathleen
Hi Kathleen.
Lt. Gov. Green said they will not be mandatory. That is all that we have heard.
Aloha.
How many times is this going to be revised? What if the vaccine does nothing to prevent people
From getting COVID? How easy it will
Be to forge the card…”lol. Another joke that will continue tourism decline… but that is the end game isn’t it… no more tourists… except the 1% ers… Larry Ellison and friends… no more riff raff
As simple as the vaccination passport sounds, I’m sure Ige will find a way to screw it up.
Aloha Roy & Jerry
(Rob & Jeff I didn’t want to use your real names government might be tracking you)
Why does everything these days have to be a government conspiracy?
To the I don’t want the government tracking me crowd here on BOH if you’re so concerned about being tracked then why are you posting comments here from your smart phone, laptop or god forbid a PC.
Not a very smart move.
On the subject at hand you know that this going to get screwed up and get revised 20 times before it’s rolled out and the rules will change again almost daily and be different for evry major, so expect the worse and hope for the best
Mahalo
Rodney (Didn’t want to use my real name ether)
Hi Richard.
We’re both smiling! Thanks much for that.
Aloha.
Interesting that Hawai’i is going to promote widespread vaccination and use it to bypass quarantine given that 1. The vaccine is not FDA approved for general use. Emergency use authorization is not approval and the vaccine has not gone through the safety and efficacy testing required to get a drug approved. Emergency use is supposed to be only for the most at risk populations (which is not the vacst majority) and 2. This vaccine has never been tested for whether it prevents colonization and transmission and indeed it is theorized that it does not. In other words, it may prevent You from getting the disease but does nothing to prevent you from spreading it around to others and may in fact make that highly likely as you won’t experience the symptoms to know you are sick and should not travel. Hawai’i is just shilling for Big Pharma, not doing what is in the best interest of people.
Aloha Guys
I too wondered how they were going to confirm vaccination.
Thank you for keeping us informed. Here’s the dilemma on vaccinated people vs unvaccinated – 1) the shot is only 94% effective so 6 out every 100 people who get the shot could still get the virus and pass it on to HI. 2) Why dont people who can show they had the virus and now have antibodies skip quarantine upon arrival? I don’t think authorities have considered all the facts and allowing people a”I was vaccinated” as a free pass to enter is not fair to others who have antibodies but are going to skip the vaccination because its not recommended for them to have. We really want to vacation in HI but your regs are too fluid and ever changing to feel comfortable planning a trip.
Hi Kym.
Thanks for your comments. It’s going to be fluid for some time.
Aloha.
This sounds like communism to me. Tracking our health status, making us get medical procedures so we can travel and carrying a card to prove it. If we let this happen the government tyranny won’t stop and soon we will all be prisoners in the name of safety.
Also, none of these vaccines are approved. They are still in trials. They’ve been approved for emergency use so everyone who gets it is basically a part of a large scale trial. Read Pfizer and Moderna’s own fact sheets. We have no idea what side effects could pop up. We need to stop freaking out and standing up for our rights.
This sounds like communism to me…and we will all be prisoners in the name of safety – aka asking the public to support measures to protect the communal spread of a deadly disease, and prevent our fellow citizens from Dying.
We should all ‘stop freaking out’ – aka as of 12/30, 1.7m+ deaths globally, 340k in the US (even with severe lockdowns and partially adhered to guidelines).
COVID deniers and those against communal efforts to stop the disease should just come out and say their truth – I’m selfish, don’t care about others dying and don’t want to be told what to do if it inconveniences me at all.
Does this mean Kauai will remain on the “14 day quarantine” until Feb.? We have plans for mid January and were hoping things might open up.It seems more likely thgat we will have to cancel those plans.
Kauai isn’t going to let anyone in as soon as three weeks. Go to Maui or Big Island instead (Big Island has the best testing system).
Elizabeth,
A few things:
Currently, Kauai’s current incoming travel quarantine is 10 days rather than 14. This change become effective on 12/17 along with the rest of the state.
Even with Lt Governor’s Green Vaccination Passport program approval by Governor Ige, counties such as Kauai can still choose to opt out of the program much like Mayor Kawakami choose do for Kauai now.
With regards to Kauai rejoining the current safe travels program or the the vaccination travel program, anyone’s guess is is good as the next person’s. Mayor Kawakami hasn’t given any info or hints as to when he plans to re-open the island minus when the cases on the mainland decrease or he gets the Governor to approve a two test quarantine system. And neither of those are likely to happen before February.
So here is my advice with regards to your February travel plans to Kauai. Change them now if you don’t want to live with uncertainty of what Kauai’s Mayor might choose to do with regards to opting back into the safe travels program. Maui, Oahu and Hawaii island are still part of the safe travels program if you are insistent on going on a Hawaiian vacation during a pandemic!
Covid19 a influenza virus to mandate to be vaccinated to be able to fly and on top of it you still have to wear a mask???that is absolutely nonsense.there will be covid 21 22 etc.nobody ever can cure a influenza virus at all.we have to live with it.sorry to say this but it is a political power trip
To control humans in a communistic way.