Per the previously posted article - the sophisticated scanners will be at each gate and they will automatically scan you as you walk through the gate, so there should be no more line than usual.
Per the previously posted article - Hawaii is already pursueing this, but how do you "demand," testing before departure when you have people coming from all over the world. There has to be someone in authority at the other end who agrees to it, pays for it, implements it, and monitors it.
It would make me chuckle to know you live in OC and that Ken is in LA
Nope, not OC. On the northern border of LA County. An hour drive from OC without traffic, about 2.5 hr most of the time.
You don't really have to "demand" it. You just make it the ticket to avoiding quarantine. Granted there could be enforcement problems as the number of tourists increases, but that's still the answer. Come to Hawaii with proof of a negative test, proceed to enjoy your vacation. Come without it, and either get tested at the airport, or be placed in quarantine.
I'm thinking that an issue with allowing inter-island travel has somewhat to do with the logistics of tracking people. What if someone flies from the mainland non-stop to Maui, stays overnight and flies out the following day to Lihue via HNL. Will there be the manpower to check every passenger arriving on an inter-island flight to verify how long they've been in the state? How would someone prove this? What if the person flying in from the mainland lives on Kauai and is just trying to avoid the quarantine? Sadly there are folks who will go to lengths to avoid rules and those folks make things harder on everyone else.
Yeah sorry abou
Yeah, sorry about that; it went that direction with the discussion of flying tolerance
Problem with the scanners it that they only detect those that are already symptomatic, i.e. contagious. They may offer some element of protection, but it's nothing in comparison to testing. Hawaii just doesn't have the testing capacity that they need in order to safely open up. No matter how you slice it, all roads lead through testing.
Hawaii does not have the ability to ban travel to the state. That would be interference in interstate commerce. Like every other state, they do have power to regulate the behavior of people once they enter the state, including quarantine. So when travelers arrive, what they can do is decide whom they can allow to enter without quarantine, and who needs to quarantine. Any testing/scanning program will be built around that.
You may not have seen them - but they are there
You may not have seen them - but they are there
I must have missed that. I think a scanner can only check the temperature (that can be easily lowered with Advil) not whether a person is Covid-19 positive or not. The only way to determine it with a reasonable degree of certainty (70-80%?) is through a test and this can take a lot of time.
Do you have a citation for that?
Of course, but the current state plan is the scanners at every gate. There may be details out there about them, but I haven't seen them. I know it's some kind of imaging system.
