Originally Posted by
Boraxo
No, I love the Hawaiian people and the islands, [comment redacted by moderator per guidelines posted above by the moderation team; feel free to re-express your statement without overt political language]. Iceland is planning to re-open to tourists with testing on arrival (as is the case for Austria). But it sounds like a majority of the population on Oahu supports the ultra-conservative approach. So again. sad that I can't visit Hawaii, but plenty of other options will be available.
A testing-on-arrival or before departure approach, potentially combined with a mobile phone contract tracing app is being worked on, and would be popular as a way to reduce risk while restarting tourism. The “Travel with Aloha” program.
Just restarting and giving people a free aloha print mask and squirt of pineapple-scented hand sanitizer in the jetbridge in lieu of a lei would be less popular.