Ige: State workers stay home, visitors stay out

[ironyak]

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/03/18...ronavirus/

Amid growing fears that the coronavirus is spreading in the community, the governor issued a host of new orders and guidelines Tuesday, directing all non-essential state workers to stay home and asking visitors to stay away for 30 days.

Tourists are being urged to stop coming to Hawaii as it deals with the pandemic.

Cruise ship passengers and air travelers will undergo more thorough screening efforts. Health care workers were to take passengers’ temperatures and ask them screening questions.

All non-essential state travel, including inter-island travel, is being postponed. Those who do have to travel will have to go into self-isolation for 14 days.

Bars and clubs were being directed to close, though it was not immediately clear if the direction was a mandate or a strong suggestion.

Restaurants should go to take-out only, Ige said, and tour companies should limit or shut down operations immediately.

And he said all gatherings should be limited to 10 or fewer people.

Also Tuesday, the governor said that there are discussions underway to handle the economic fallout of the pandemic, specifically on the tourism industry.

Ige said he wants to halt foreclosures, evictions for non-payment of rents, and shut-offs of necessary utilities, such as water and electricity."

[Guest]

LOL!

[TomK]

Not included in that article are schools. I don't know if Ige mentioned them in his press conference; I haven't watched it yet.

From https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/03/1...next-week/

"The DOE announced Sunday that teachers would return to work from March 23 to March 27 to plan for social distancing within the school setting when students return, and to prepare for modified operations. The DOE also plans to thoroughly clean the schools during the break, and is scheduled to resume classes on March 30.

But the HSTA contends calling the teachers back for that work on March 23 runs afoul of a portion of the “teachers protection” portion of the union contract. In a video posted Monday evening, Rosenlee said the plan “is in violation Article X of our contract.”

Specifically, the contract states that “when students are sent home from school or are not required to attend due to emergencies which endanger health or safety, teachers will not be required to remain at, nor report to, said schools.”"

[randomq]

He should provide some protections or unemployment insurance for the brave food and retail workers that still have to show up to work. Think about the poor Walmart checkout folks, exposed face to face to how many people a day? Or the people preparing, packaging or serving food. How many young seemingly healthy Typhoid Mary's are out there right now? They have every incentive to keep working (pay the rent, not lose their jobs) and no support otherwise (no testing to tell them they are contagious, not even simple dust masks, bosses that threaten them if they try to go home sick). Ige and Kim need to take action before a lot of our Kupuna suffer and die.

[birdmove]

Anyone know if the dumps are open?

Jon in Keaau/HPP

[Chunkster]

Wondering about the dumps, too. Lord help us if they shut those down.

[ElysianWort]

Cruise ship passengers and air travelers will undergo more thorough screening efforts. Health care workers were to take passengers’ temperatures and ask them screening questions.


While that may help a little I don't think it will make much of a difference in the long haul. There are apparently a large percentage of people that contract the disease and show no symptoms at all. They have a healthy immune system or whatever and are just unaffected. However they are still carriers and can transmit the disease. So they get screened and a temperature reading and they say they feel fine as they get off the plane but they are infected.

[Obie]

Hawaii state Capitol closing after senator tests positive for coronavirus; Nishihara may have gotten COVID-19 in Las Vegas


"The Hawaii state Capitol is closing in the wake of the announcement that state Sen. Clarence K. Nishihara was informed today that he has tested positive for COVID-19, according to announcements from the House and Senate."

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/03/1...kSlBZp33FY

[randomq]

I wonder if Sen. Ruderman has been tested, considering he runs a grocery/deli/buffet in Hilo...