Restrictions to continue!

[Wao nahele kane]

last I heard it was 14.

For unvaccinated, it's zero days if you have a negative test within 72 hours before traveling here. For vaccinated, no test or confinement upon arrival. 
I've had several people here in the past month and those are the current rules. Is there an option to lockdown upon arrival? That I don't know but all that information can be found in the safe travels website.

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I find it extremely interesting to the fact that we know that vaccinated can and do still catch it, can still spread it. Why arent they being tested? quarantined. If it was just about peoples safety that would be required for vaccinated as well. I guess the carriers of the covid that are vaccinated are of little concern. Lol..

Exactly!
In early July (just days before the recent spike struck us), Hawaii adopted new rules for entry to Hawaii.
Effectively the following...

1. U.S. domestic travelers who were fully vaccinated in the United States or U.S. territories can bypass quarantine starting the 15th day after the completion of their vaccination.
   
   
2. Bypass quarantine by taking a pre-travel test
   
   • The test must be from a State of Hawaii trusted testing and travel partnerOpens external link to page that may not meet accessibility guidelines.
     
   • The test must be administered no more than 72 hours prior to the scheduled departure time of the final leg to Hawaii.
     
   • Test results must be received prior to flight departure.
     
     
3. Quarantine: choose not to take a COVID-19 test prior to departure and complete the mandatory 10-day self-quarantine.
   

This means that the vaccinated may have very likely brought the most recent spike to Hawaii. Because at the time, it wasn't known that they could still be carriers, aquire and transmit the virus. Now we know otherwise.
It was July 8th that Hawaii bagan letting vaccinated people in without pre covid test. And on July 12th the recent covid infection spike began.
   

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Because that isn't a popular thing to point out, the individual avoided the vaccine status within their supposition.

Really?  A virologist, scientist, left out the part you wish he had included to dispute my comment, because it’s unpopular?


I'm playing it safe and leaning towards its creation being in a lab.

Kinda like what I was doing when I said odds are that an unvaccinated person likely created the mutation, right?  Or is it more scientific, official sounding if you use the term Occam’s Razor?


Anyway, that leads me back to my unanswered question about the qualifications necessary for high quality predictions of the future, or findings in the future (creation... in a lab).  Would it be a Crystal Ball with 4.5 or higher rating from Amazon?  Ouija Board Certificaion?

The most likely way a virus aquires several mutates in a short time frame is when it happens in lab. Period. Occams razor is simply the most plausible explanation with respect to certainty. In other words, we can guarantee use of laboratory techniques to add many mutatation to a virus within days. We cannot guartee such an outcome if we slap the virus in immunodeficient hosts. 

It's that simple.