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Tourism was responsible for 47 percent of state revenue from food service, and 54 percent of retail revenue. Yet the state has been slow to kick back into gear.
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One of the things I was thinking about doing in retirement was
traveling. I once visited Hawaii somewhere around 1989 . . .
And I had a very good time on the 'Big Island'.
But with the wuhan flu and associated travel restrictions . . .
Just ain't gonna happen.
By the way, the Washington Post has an article on just how
badly Hawaii's economy has been (and is still being) hammered.
While we have grown used to the people (well, at least those who are capable for thinking for themselves) of Michigan and California complaining that the tyrannical COVID lockdown rules imposed by Governors Whitmer and Newsom are arbitrary and capricious (if not downright unconstitutional), it is less often we hear from those living on the beautiful islands of Hawaii.
For many 'mainlanders', the thoughts of a vacation to Hawaii (or anywhere but the apartment they have been suffering in for 7 months) are heavenly. However, as the following 'rural Hawaiian' exclaims in her Twitter thread, "Hawaii is committing suicide" with its "cargo-cult level bullsh*t" travel restrictions.
It took an hour to get through the new security checkpoint. A guy there (a surgeon with an exemption) was telling the people to go ahead and arrest him.
We had to check into a hotel in Oahu overnight. We can’t leave the room because we are technically “quarantined.”
I have to fill out paperwork AGAIN to go from one island to our own.
This is BULLSH*T.
They think tourists are coming back in 4 days???)
Hawaii has committed suicide.
We may legit have to move. This is ridiculous .
In closing, I will say this:
Shut the f*ck up about the “dangers of COVID.”
What is happening in Hawaii is some cargo-cult level, praying to the gods for deliverance from the “plague”, bullsh*t.
Hardly anyone is sick here.
But we are all broke.
At this point, I feel like the response to covid should have been managed at the federal level. This state to state bullsh*t is not working.
I am a goddamn American. I am entitled to the same rights as any other American .
I’m not even kidding that there were only like 50 people on our plane to Oahu from Seattle, and one of them [a surgeon] ended up yelling at airport security to go ahead and arrest him.
The state of Hawaii is trying to detain him - even though he has surgeries to give in the morning.
This man comes to Hawaii once a month to perform surgeries.
Every month.
They keep changing the regulations for entry.
The state or Hawaii is denying their citizens ACCESS TO MEDICAL TREATMENT via their constant changing of their rules.
This doesn’t even surprise me.
Many of us here in Hawaii use medical services that come from other islands, or even from the mainland.
Hawaii’s ridiculously overzealous travel restrictions are going to make it so that even FEWER doctors are available to serve the citizens
The veterinarian who sees my horse normally flies in from Oahu.
Until recently, he was the ONLY equine vet serving the island.
Our only pediatric psychiatrist on island works 1/2 time on another island.
These travel restrictions are not only cumbersome, but risk lives.
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