The Latest: Hawaii welcomes visitors with pre-travel test

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

The Latest: Hawaii welcomes visitors with pre-travel test

By The Associated Press
October 16, 2020

HONOLULU — About 8,000 people landed in Hawaii on the first day of a pre-travel testing program.

It allows travelers to come to the islands without quarantining for two weeks if they produce a negative coronavirus test. The state-run testing program is an effort to stem the devastating downturn caused by the pandemic on Hawaii’s tourism-based economy.

However, gaps in the program coupled with increasing cases across the U.S. and the world have raised questions about whether Hawaii is ready to safely welcome back vacationers.

Meanwhile, restaurant cards for unemployed workers are expected to begin arriving in Hawaii mailboxes on Friday. The $500 prepaid debit cards cover meals and purchases at bakeries and catering services. About 116,000 state residents have filed for unemployment insurance.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-china-qingdao-fa5c9eb4d0ebdd269502980bdd4c8566

[mahina]

1. People here are up in arms about this. It is not going great.

800 people got here *yesterday* with no test at all according to the news and there is a big gap of time around the 72 hours thing.

Letting people without testing get on an airplane with people who have already tested negative

The Dems are going to lose the Mayors race for the first time since Frank Fasi when I was a kid. If the governors race was up now he would lose to a bug. I say this with sorrow because I think he’s working his heart out and beset and besieged by the swarm of trolls and Koch funded fascists.

Unforgotten for a moment here, the fact that Hawaiians were literally decimated with only one in ten surviving earlier introduced diseases. It is still a very painful memory.

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/5014607.pdf

Got to go.

Please don’t come here if you have been exposed. Please.