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With all the indecision by Governor Ige, have the voters of Hawaii considered a recall. Just wondering.
Thanks
Hi Richard.
We haven’t heard of anything much. There is an impeach Ige Facebook page, however.
Aloha.
Just depose the guy. He’s deliberately ruining the most beautiful set-up in history. It’s criminal. They just renovated Waikiki a decade ago. I can’t imagine the bills not getting paid right now and the damage being done in so many ways. So tired of these blue dictators.
Was supposed to fly in sat morning. Took covid test Wednesday morning. Missed flight. Received results 1030p sat evening. Results were over 72 hours old when received. Need to move to 96. Would be there spending money right now.
It’s a blue state. They’re counting on billions and billions of dollars after 1/20. Why be productive when you can destroy capital, then print money we don’t have and bankrupt the nation for our kids and grandkids.
I hear red states are doing really well right now. Oh other than the out of control death rates and the equally bad economies. To turn this into a red vs blue state thing is ridiculous. Why aren’t people mad at the feds who allowed the pandemic on the mainland to get so out of control? If that hadn’t happened, there wouldn’t be nearly as strict travel restrictions.
Having recently returned from the mainland and complied with the mandatory testing I discovered that it is very difficult Define the lab that will get you definite results within the limited time frame provided by the Hawaii government. 72 hours seems reasonable, however we’re Labs on the mainland are not delivering test results for 3 to 7 days there is simply no way that the average person can get a test get a negative result and use it to visit Hawaii! I spoke with numerous people that had many Misadventures with their testing including lost test results confusion can test result delays that wiped out there chance to visit Hawaii. They had to retest at a city that had direct flights to Hawaii at a lab that could produce same-day results since the labs in their home state could not do so! I was amazed at the heroic efforts of the people on my plane to Hawaii to actually overcome the challenges and visit our beautiful state. Frankly, the average person has not begun to put up with all the crap! It is amazing anyone is coming to Hawaii anymore at all oh, this is going to be a big problem and we need to figure out a solution! Testing on arrival makes the most sense. Increasing the timeline so that people at least have a chance to get a test get the results get the information uploaded and get on a plane and get out here. Not everyone can jump on a flight and come straight to Hawaii if you’re coming from the East Coast you have to have connecting flights and this adds time we can put you outside the window! Very frustrating very spooky.
Most of our regular visitors aren’t trying to travel right now in the middle of a massive pandemic. They’re not getting on 7-8 hour flights where people won’t wear masks and get on knowing they are COVID positive (look at the recent flight from SF) wand they’re not staying in hotels because they realize that’s lolo. Aloha goes both ways, respect is reciprocal. Our kupuna are vital to our culture and our ohanas, you’re basically saying screw them, you deserve to be here. We can do without visitors who have absolutely no respect for our island or our people. Mahalo.
These are the nails in the coffin of Hawaiis economy,and they are not coming out any time soon.The governor is just following orders like most Democrat governors and some Republicans are.
I don’t know, from what I understand the mainland’s economy is even worse and far more people are dying. Blue and red, the latter especially horrific when it comes to death rates. Putting our ohana’s lives at risk for a group of tourists who don’t respect our right to life, and aren’t spending nearly as much as our regular tourists, many of whom realize traveling so far via airplane and hotel during a national pandemic is lolo, is pupule.
Yay keep the rich howlies who post fake pics and love trump crying!
I am here, sitting in my room because I am visiting family. I got my test at one of the partners 72 hours before departure. The lab did not pick up the test until 2 days later. I received a negative result the morning after I arrived. Now I’m still sitting here inside, because of something beyond my control.
That’s a racist comment and it’s down right rude. That’s one reason I’ll never go back to Hawaii. Don’t call your meal ticket names.
nothing he said was ‘racist’. just because you were offended about him speaking about white folks doesn’t make the statement racist either.
the islands were colonized and taken by force. way of life and living destroyed. turned into a playground for rich white americans and europeans primarily. and now they bitch and moan about hawaii ‘needing’ them to survive. pimp hawaii for everything it has but call yourself a ‘meal ticket’. the irony and cognitive dissonance is sad.
If you think haole is racist, you don’t know anything about Hawai’i. Portagee, haole, kanaka, we have no problem calling our mixed backgrounds nicknames.I’m a hapa haole My dad is full blooded kanaka maoli or Native Hawai’ian and my mom is haole. I call myself a haole and trust me I deal with actual racism when it comes to my full Native half. Sometime people talk beef about certain haoles but that’s just saying those white people are being jerks. There’s also good haoles. It’s not a racial slur. It’s Hawai’ian for foreigner. And yes, haoles are foreigners here. My Polynesian brothers and sisters and ohana are the natives.
By the way telling us to behave exactly how you want us to because you consider yourself our “meal ticket” is far more offensive than anything you’ve said. We should risk the health of our keiki and kupuna because your vacation is far more important than local lives, and we shut up and smile. I just got out of a very abusive relationship ending in a cracked skull, and that rational you just shared is honestly no different than my ex’s reasoning.
Hawai’i can survive without abusive tourists who have no respect for our people, culture or land.
Right? Talking beef about our blue state, sitting on the mainland where a pandemic is out of control because of the federal government and in their red states people are dropping like flies and their economies aren’t doing well either. Hawai’i totally needs more visitors who don’t give a crap about our people and our land… not. These are the people taking the super cheap deals and flights… they aren’t putting as much into our economy as they think they are. The majority of guests here right now over in Ko Olina are being super cheap, at least all the ones I’ve dealt with.
Our respectful visitors who have brains will be back after the pandemic. The ones who realize getting on long flights and staying at hotels in the middle of a pandemic going to a remote island with minimal health care.
How my health care was first and we’re getting the vaccine can I use my vaccine card to say that I got the vaccine could you please let me know
How my health care was first and we’re getting the vaccine can I use my vaccine card to say that I got the vaccine could you please let me know
Hi Donna.
Nothing from the state yet on those who have been vaccinated. We’ll update as soon as we know more.
Aloha.
This is truly a challenge for everyone. We were going to use one of the “trusted partners “ but CVS & Walgreens stated that they will not guarantee results within the 72 hours required by Hawaii!
We used Costco/Azova that cost over $150 each. We see now that United Airlines will do a test in San Francisco, the final leg of our journey. That gives us about six hours for our results.
Quarantine should not be an issue. We are planning on becoming residents but with all the uncertainties surrounding this pandemic who can be sure.
Thanks for your article. It really helps.
Hi Robert.
Thanks. Good luck with the process. Let us know how it goes.
Aloha.
If you’re becoming residents you should understand we are a very remote group of islands, with little health care services on every island but O’ahu and even here our medical care isn’t great and isn’t nearly enough for our locals let alone a group of tourists bringing diseases to our incredibly vulnerable population. We have a lot of kupuna here and they are central to our culture and wee value them greatly. We’re trying to protect them and our keiki. We don’t have the resources for an outbreak like the mainland. If we get to the same levels as almost any state in the continuous 48 it would be a disaster. We always welcome people who respect our people and culture. But you have to understand the reality here. Mahalo.
We travel from the Northeast coast of Portland, Maine where flights have at least 2 stops and are very long. In Maine there are only 2 trusted sources for testing – CVS & Walgreens. Unfortunately, testing appts. are 3 days out and quickly filled. I had to cancel a trip when the test results were not received within the 72 hr timeframe. I also had to travel 35 miles from my home to secure an appt. I also tried to reschedule my departure from Portland, Maine to Boston, Massachusetts, hoping that a just a one-stop flight from Boston to Maui would help. Unfortunately, I didn’t receive my results in time. This trip was costly because I took a bus from Maine to Massachusetts and return and paid for a hotel since my flight was scheduled for 6am from Boston. The recent ruling of needing the Covid test loaded on Safe Travels (originally printed) before landing in Hawaii was impossible for me. Unfortunately, I am 70 years old and not tech savvy. I’ve never asked for special treatment but could time, distance and age be considered? We travel to 3 Hawaiian Islands yearly, for a total of 4 trips. Please be more flexible, 96hrs is more doable for us from afar. I also agree with a second test when arriving. On returning home, I will be tested so I can see my grandchildren. Thanks
Hi Patty.
Thanks for sharing your testing experiences. We can only hope that gets easier.
Aloha.
Unfortunately it’s vital that someone in your position does have the results of a COVID test. We don’t have the medical care here on the islands for residents let alone visitors. You would not want to get ill with COVID here. On Maui there’s only 29 ICU beds. Most are already full even with our lower COVID rate. The other islands are even lower and fuller and while O’ahu has more, it’s not nearly enough for our population let alone tourists. That’s one of the main reasons it’s vital to keep the rate down here. If we had the same rate that most mainland states have our ICU beds would be full and there’d be thousands and thousands who need one. There’s no easy transfers here, even if you could medivac 5-6 hour flights, SF, LA and Seattle are all already full. That’s a huge reason we’re so strict here, we do not have the medical care to support the current mainland rates.
If you follow our summer news, there were so many people lying to get around quarantine and causing problems. Unfortunately once you allow one exception there’s thousands of unethical tourists who will lie and try to get the same. It would completely crush our existing system.
It’s probably a good time to stay home right now. Like I said we respect our kupuna a lot here, my father is 75 and even with my own severe autoimmune disease I’ve been protecting him like crazy. Our condo building has people who own just to rent and we’ve had so many tourists even during quarantine violating every single requirement and continuing to refuse wearing masks, holding 20+ person parties, having groups of almost 20 crammed into small condos, there’s 18 people from different groups down in our hot tub now. It’s not safe and I’m driving myself crazy trying to protect my own father. For someone your age, I’d stay home and then come back and visit our wonderful state in the summer or next winter when COVID gets under control.
We’re not doing this to be jerks. We’re trying to protect our citizens and tourists!
Practical question here: can you fly back in the middle of the 14 days quarantine? I.e. can I break the quarantine to go to the airport and take a flight home or am I supposed to be stuck on the island for 14 days once I set foot?
That would be crazy but so is the whole situation…
Yes you can leave. They’ve sent back people they’ve found violating quarantine before opening up.