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Hawaii was given US tax payer money of $5 billion for the whopping grand total of 652 coronavirus cases
Source please?
Hawaii was given US tax payer money of $5 billion for the whopping grand total of 652 coronavirus cases
Source please?
Yes if here in Canada if provinces started opening up to other countries before allowing other Canadians from outside the province I would be pissed too.They are lifting the quarantine requirement for inter island travel on June 16th and are working on plans for the people of New Zealand, Australia, Japan and South Korea to travel without quarantine restrictions. Hawaii was given US tax payer money of $5 billion for the whopping grand total of 652 coronavirus cases, and yet they are talking about opening up their island to foreigners before their own fellow Americans??? They are acting as if they are their own sovereign nation trying to make deals with other countries. I'm sorry, but this does not sit right with me at all.
They are lifting the quarantine requirement for inter island travel on June 16th and are working on plans for the people of New Zealand, Australia, Japan and South Korea to travel without quarantine restrictions. Hawaii was given US tax payer money of $5 billion for the whopping grand total of 652 coronavirus cases, and yet they are talking about opening up their island to foreigners before their own fellow Americans??? They are acting as if they are their own sovereign nation trying to make deals with other countries. I'm sorry, but this does not sit right with me at all.
I think that the Gov of Hawaii is getting an idea that opening up Pan Pacific Travel only to only foreign countries might become an issue. If the tried that, I feel he could run afoul of Washington and those funds they desparately need might just get frozen. Hawaii desparately needs Federal Loans because their state unemployment is about to run out and they need the federal loans to cover the unemployment until after their economy restarts (which will not be until after tourism returns). He wants to use the Cares Act money to pay off half of the money they are going to need to borrow to cover unemployment. Otherwise, he feels that they will have to up to buisness tax to cover it and it would take about 10yrs to pay it off and that would really be a heavy burden on buisnesses. It was interresting that in his press conference yesterday he floated the idea that he might include some US states like Alaska and Montana in the quarantine exception as they have very low covid rates.
That was not my point, my point is that there are ways of being cautious that may violated existing laws and policy that could pontentially have other ramifications. You may feelike you are being cautious driving 35 MPH on a open freeway in good weather but you can still get a ticket for it.dBeing cautious regarding COVID is a good thing. Do you want to be stuck on an island with limited resources to ICU beds and ventilators!?
Source please?
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020...unce-lifting-of-interisland-quarantine-today/
“This is an important step to reopening our kama’aina economy,” Ige said at his daily COVID-19 briefing, adding that he would announce a target date next week on when trans-Pacific travel can resume. “We want to be mindful of the notion that other communities have reopened their economies too quickly and have seen second spikes and increasing outbreaks.”
Interisland travelers, however, will be required to undergo health screenings and temperature scans at local airports and complete additional paperwork on travel history, residence, and where they will be staying on island to make sure that “no one has traveled to out of state and visited any of the other communities where the virus has actively been circulated,” he said on the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s COVID-19 Care Conversation. The 14-day mandatory quarantine remains for all mainland and international visitors.
On reopening trans-Pacific travel, Ige said authorities will focus on communities with low virus incidence, including New Zealand and Australia “as first candidates that we would be interested in,” and “obviously from an economic perspective, Japan and South Korea.”
They are lifting the quarantine requirement for inter island travel on June 16th and are working on plans for the people of New Zealand, Australia, Japan and South Korea to travel without quarantine restrictions. Hawaii was given US tax payer money of $5 billion for the whopping grand total of 652 coronavirus cases, and yet they are talking about opening up their island to foreigners before their own fellow Americans??? They are acting as if they are their own sovereign nation trying to make deals with other countries. I'm sorry, but this does not sit right with me at all.
This money was from the CARES Act. This statement is misleading.
The comment about possibly including low covid case states like Alaska or Montana from the mandatory quarantine came from either his press conference about interstate travel or an earlier conference that I also listened to. He made the comment that they may allow low covid case states also to bypass the quarantine like Alaska and Montana in context with him taking about Japan, Australia, New Zealand and S. Korea. He qualified that statement with the comment saying that he granted that those were not major markets of Hawaiian tourism but that unfortunately major mainland markets like California were exibiting "concerning" spikes in covid cases.Can you please post the source for your comment? Thank you
Please see post #129Where is this info coming from?
I think that the Gov of Hawaii is getting an idea that opening up Pan Pacific Travel only to only foreign countries might become an issue. If the tried that, I feel he could run afoul of Washington and those funds they desparately need might just get frozen. Hawaii desparately needs Federal Loans because their state unemployment is about to run out and they need the federal loans to cover the unemployment until after their economy restarts (which will not be until after tourism returns). He wants to use the Cares Act money to pay off half of the money they are going to need to borrow to cover unemployment. Otherwise, he feels that they will have to up to buisness tax to cover it and it would take about 10yrs to pay it off and that would really be a heavy burden on buisnesses. It was interresting that in his press conference yesterday he floated the idea that he might include some US states like Alaska and Montana in the quarantine exception as they have very low covid rates.
or maybe it does...Alaska and Montana do not even have direct flights to Hawaii. His ideas make no sense.
Alaska and Montana do not even have direct flights to Hawaii. His ideas make no sense.
Source please?
Last time i checked there was a direct flight from Alaska. Maybe post covid though its gone?