08-20-2021, 01:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-20-2021, 01:58 AM by ChunksterK.)
After weeks of being MIA while the Big Island hospitals reached capacity, Mitch Roth announced a few days ago that he was "considering" closing the county beach parks to curtail the spread of Covid. Today he formally asked the governor to impose mandatory testing on travelers from the mainland, but still hasn't reached a decision on the parks . . . or anything else.
https://bigislandnow.com/2021/08/19/hawa...g-for-all/
I don't know what island Mitch is living on, but I'm on one where the great majority of cases is coming from spread among our own local community which has a significant number of people who won't get vaccinated and won't stop gathering. Testing air passengers isn't going to significantly reduce the strain on our medical system. Stronger measures curtailing local gatherings, including churches, would be a start, and it might need to get more stringent than that the way things look. We had 163 new cases in this county today, and that's just the ones who managed to get tested.
https://bigislandnow.com/2021/08/19/hawa...g-for-all/
I don't know what island Mitch is living on, but I'm on one where the great majority of cases is coming from spread among our own local community which has a significant number of people who won't get vaccinated and won't stop gathering. Testing air passengers isn't going to significantly reduce the strain on our medical system. Stronger measures curtailing local gatherings, including churches, would be a start, and it might need to get more stringent than that the way things look. We had 163 new cases in this county today, and that's just the ones who managed to get tested.