The mask rules are unclear by island. I think there is a push to make mask rules clearer as a state but my understanding is yes masks required everywhere even outside.
My experience in San Diego is that people on vacation take vacations from their masks even though our state rule is that you need to wear one when out in public. When we go walking we don't even bother going to beaches where the tourists go because it's close quarters (especially on the boardwalks) and there are a lot of non-mask wearers. It's a very uncomfortable situation for residents as we are the ones who will suffer after all with shutting down businesses, schools etc long after the tourists have gone home since we are on a tiered system that shuts down various businesses when we reach certain levels of infection. That said I think that our college students cause the most problems, not visitors.
There are quite a few posts on Tripadvisor about visitors who have had issues with testing (results nor received before departure, then needing a manual review by someone on Hawaii and that step taking 4 days). Folks over there are saying don't get on the plane without test results. It's not worth it.
It appears that Lanai will ask all visitors to leave by Monday. Not sure of where they will go and if they will be retested to make sure that they did not get infected from the outbreak on the island. As far as I know, only Four Seasons is open so possibly they will move them to another Four Seasons Resort within the state. Nothing published my Maui County so still in flux.
Are there any other four seasons open? Ko olina is still shut.
So is Hualalai, not sure about Maui
Nope. Checked their website and not reopening until Nov 20th.
Unless the visitors want to quarantine, it looks as if they may be heading home by Monday.
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I found this article online. It seems that there are instances where and entire party can go to a company and test but not everyone will get their results at the same time. https://www.kitv.com/story/42813554...ne-due-to-delays-in-pretravel-testing-results
We sometimes think of “testing” as this simple process where some person gets a tube, runs the test, and sends back the results. But that’s not how it works. The lab is receiving thousands of specimens to test and track every hour (I don’t recall the numbers, but when I litigated a case against Quest I learned of the staggering number of samples that they process every hour, somewhere on the order of 100,000/hour in a single lab facility). Every sample must be marked and tracked and handled very, very, carefully. Machines have to run. Results checked for validity and logged. There is a massive infrastructure in the labs to handle all the specimens they receive (remember, they get a lot more than just COVID samples in the lab).
I think this is the biggest frustration locals have with the situation and the lack of procedures and information what is and isn't allowed. being provided by the state. Its frustrating. I think we will find out more over the next couple of weeks. What I fear more now is the reports of locals gathering under the "if the tourists come and we're gonna spike anyway i might as well enjoy myself now" attitude and spread it. I also saw a lot of locals gathering at Ko olina this weekend which troubled me. I saw a group of 30 or so at lagoon 4 with what appeared to be a church gathering from what I could hear by the conversation passing by and i saw quite a few unmasked locals on property in groups of larger than 5 (trust me it was worse the 1st week of oct on property-i took my family to paradise cove over the weekend).
I think that there is so much pent up frustration at this point that some of this is absolutely inevitable. It's not good for suppressing the spread but not surprising to see it happen either. Everyone is just up in everyone else's business that it's a bit of a powder keg these days. I have no idea how this can be controlled at this point. I just hope that we can seriously socially distance, and if it takes floating in the lagoons for hours then so be it, lol.
). Since I always host the holidays I have upset the apple cart. Oh well. Their turn to do all of the work, lol.
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