Posted on 04/05/2021 4:18:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
Hawaii is an American gem, a collection of island paradises that one can travel to in a reasonable period of time from most of the US mainland. Hawaii poses no issues with language, currency, or cell phone service. The climate is wonderful, with beaches, palm trees, and sea breezes. Under COVID however, visiting Hawaii is more like checking into prison with myriad rules and procedures, including monitored quarantine and GPS bracelets.
Virtually all countries requiring a COVID test for admission allow the standard PCR test now available ubiquitously in any pharmacy, lab, or parking lot test center. But not Hawaii. Each Hawaiian island, despite being part of a single state, makes its own rules, similar what American states do under the concept of federalism.
Hawaii, for inexplicable reasons, mandates a Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT) rather than the standard PCR test. Both are molecular tests and their sensitivity is based on amplification cycles, as many of us have written about, that can be artificially elevated to the point of absurdity. It’s simply another version of the standard PCR test but not readily available and challenging for visitors who need the test within 72 hours of travel.
Kauai, one of the Hawaiian Islands, where we happen to be visiting as I write this, has its own rules. Either a 10-day strict quarantine or a standard PCR test and a three-day “resort bubble” quarantine. The rest of Hawaii requires either the specific NAAT test or a 10-day quarantine.
Resort quarantine means staying at the hotel for 72 hours then retesting to leave quarantine. Hardly draconian, it’s more like the type of prison sentence a well connected Democrat might receive, like Jeffrey Epstein were he still alive.
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Meanwhile, it still has the highest unemployment rate in the nation.
Well it’s not like they want tourists from the mainland anyway. Even before COVID. Unless you’re rich that is.
Hawaii is not the place to go if you’re not hawaiian. They practice discrimination against normal mainlanders. The islands should never have become a state.
It looks like it was ok until that resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave came in
HI has been a cesspool of corruption for decades.
I’d never want to live there.
And I’ve no longer any inclination to visit.
Most trade organizations that planned meetings in Hawaii for 2021, have canceled their events. Not sure Hawaii cares, but those big hotels will stay empty.
I was almost sent to quarantine because I did not have a hard copy of my NAAT test. Instead, it was on my e-mail. The test results did not come until the day before my flight. I live in Alabama but flew out of Atlanta to save money and take 2 flights instead of 3. I did not have access to a printer. Fortunately, the boss overruled the employee and let me go.
Having visited Hawaii twice, in 1979 and 1984, I have never experienced the level of anti-white racial hatred as I did there. Never again! Florida is just as nice.
My son keeps us all; that is him, my husband who will turn 83 this month, and me in “quarantine”. My son does the shopping, but he doesn’t let my go with him. I am handicapped because of a degenerative disc decease, and degenerative hip joint decease. I walk with a cane and cannot walk fast. Also I have to look on the ground so I don’t stumble and fall on my back as I can not pull myself up. (I learned my lesson.) He says he doesn’t feel like looking all over for me. At the one Walmart we go to, if he takes me, they have set those carts for handicapped people set at lowest speed, it’s ridiculous. I can walk faster with my cane, but I would have trouble pushing those big carts, around
A friend in the Air Force described that; most Americans don’t know that many Hawaiians don’t like white people.
What would you expect from a State that has Hirono representing them?
Ran into that on the mainland.
Islander’s typically hate non islander’s. There were distinctions, but I don’t remember it.
Funny thing is if I lived in a tourist trap, I wouldn’t like them either.
I visited my brother when he was in the Navy. Based at Pearl Harbor. I noticed that everything was very expensive. He told me that there are 2 reasons. Most everything has to be imported and there are a lot of people on welfare there.
I spent a day on a motorcycle riding around Oahu and saw a lot of people sitting around during a weekday.
Save the extra airfare if you’re on the East Coast and go to a luxury resort in the Keys.
I was familiar with the first (everything had to be imported); I believe Bermuda is similar (though much shorter distances involved).
As for the second, I’d think that is a national issue - and would drive prices down (since the welfarians wouldn’t be able to afford anything without a lot of price controls).
I did live in a tourist trap for 24 years. Yes you learn to never want to be one ever again. I have have not been one since leaving the area 14 years ago..
Kauai is a paradise . . . of sorts. I loved the weather. I loved the scenery. I loved the snorkeling. I loved the botanical gardens. I even loved the food. I didn’t face blatant discrimination but did experience some theft. Anything unguarded but a red hot stove is up for grabs there.
My wife and I go for 2 weeks every year renting a place in Kailua on Oahu. Once there the only place we go is to the Publics and for walks on the most magnificent beach in the world. Haven’t gone in a year, miss it. Wonder if we will ever get back.....
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