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Hawaii governor tells potential tourists not to visit as hospitals and ICUs are "filling up" with COVID patients
CBS News ^ | August 24, 2021 | By Li Cohen

Posted on 08/24/2021 6:23:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Hawaii Governor David Ige encouraged potential tourists not to visit the islands amid a surge of coronavirus cases, saying it is "a risky time to be traveling right now."

"I encourage everyone to restrict and curtail travel to Hawaii," Ige said during a press conference on Monday. "It's not a good time to travel to the islands."

Ige said that travel should be limited to "essential business activities only." Visitors, he said, will not have the "typical" vacation that they would expect, as restaurant capacity has been restricted and rental vehicles are limited.

Ige's warning comes as Hawaii continues to see a rise in COVID cases and hospitals have reached capacity. There have been more than 9,300 new cases in the past two weeks, according to the state's health department. The majority of new cases have been in Oahu, one of the most popular Hawaiian destinations for travelers.

"We are seeing more COVID patients in our hospitals and the ICUs are filling up," Ige said on Monday.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; virus; wuhan
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1 posted on 08/24/2021 6:23:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m betting this is a bunch of Bovine Excrement.


2 posted on 08/24/2021 6:24:05 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t help us with our #1 source of revenue...

Ige is a f-tard.

Hawaii does have a bunch of fat ass people though.
It’s odd, you’re either ripped like a pro fitness model or tubby as hell.


3 posted on 08/24/2021 6:27:02 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The hospitals there have had more than a year to prepare for any surge.

There should be no cause for concern.


4 posted on 08/24/2021 6:33:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

One of, if not the most, vaccinated states in the union.


5 posted on 08/24/2021 6:37:14 AM PDT by tatown
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To: BenLurkin

As folks here have discussed, if you start requiring vaccines for hospital staff a strange thing happens—you have staffing shortages.

“Nobody could have seen it coming.”

;-)


6 posted on 08/24/2021 6:37:41 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: BenLurkin

any dead? not much I thought so


7 posted on 08/24/2021 6:37:45 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (t)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I just checked. ICU beds make up 13 percent of hospital beds overall in the United States. They are occupied 66 percent of the time, before covid. So, for them to fill up, not much extra margin.


8 posted on 08/24/2021 6:39:10 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let us hope that the island sinks. After all, the fools there also sent Hirono to DC.
Hmm, or might that be getting rid of the village idiot?


9 posted on 08/24/2021 6:46:24 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, WuhanFlu)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Do they still do that ‘rabies quarantining” thing there with lower forms of mammalian life?

Is it still working?

Could this procedure somehow be modified to work on humans?

Other than that Hawaii sucks.


10 posted on 08/24/2021 6:50:18 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Get off your ass and earn it !)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hawaii’s own CoupFlu dashboard says this is BS.

BTW, Hawaii is another state that counts probables in its CoupFlu case count.

Their stats are crap, too.


11 posted on 08/24/2021 6:55:15 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There is only one conclusion to be drawn, and it echoes the predictions made by yours truly and others many months ago:

The ‘virus free’ islands/countries will NOT escape this virus, no matter their actions. FReeper mask tyrants be damned.

It was better to let it run its course 18 months ago, and is booming loudly this month with every new report of ‘cases’.


12 posted on 08/24/2021 6:55:53 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

WAIT! I thought only Florida and Texas would have this problem! /sarc


13 posted on 08/24/2021 6:58:04 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: tatown

65% of the total population is vaccinated. Cases have gone up over 4-fold in the last month.


14 posted on 08/24/2021 7:08:52 AM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What is the covid/non covid ratio in those hospitals?

Beaubo said on one daily vaccination thread that “Springfield, Missouri is where the current Delta wave of COVID first strained the local hospital capacity.”

I asked what the ratio was but he didn’t answer. I have a feeling the covid patients are the minority and the media is blabbing and others blab what the media blabbed without knowing the actual numbers.


15 posted on 08/24/2021 7:20:48 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can you see the ocean going barges piled high with CONvid bodies from the Space Station yet? Will sharks eat contaminated bodies? Even sharks may be skerred of CONvid.


16 posted on 08/24/2021 7:29:35 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My next door neighbors are over there on vacation now. I hope they don’t get quarantined like fruit as they leave.


17 posted on 08/24/2021 7:30:35 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul (s)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The "establishment" is destroying America by not being honest!

So many doctors and medical research experts were out there from the beginning talking about the PREVENTATIVES... Vit. D, Zinc, Vit. C, Magnesium....

AND CURES that have been available from day one. Ivermectin, Remdesivir, Hydroxychloroquine.....

And the MSM and social media networks covered up the truth about them!

I was one of the ones who got multiple 30 day Facebook jail terms for reporting on the good effects!

HOW MANY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF LIVES LOST BECAUSE OF THEIR LIES??

18 posted on 08/24/2021 7:57:11 AM PDT by high info voter
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To: EvilCapitalist

There are no beds here and haven’t been for weeks.

Mother got the Pfizer jab and had a protein spike. Ended up in the ER with heart problems last week and was transferred miles away just to get a bed. She now has stints in her once healthy heart.

You lost that BS bet.


19 posted on 08/24/2021 8:14:38 AM PDT by bgill (.Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: Mr Rogers

Imagine that.


20 posted on 08/24/2021 8:27:27 AM PDT by tatown
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