03-23-2022, 10:22 PM
(03-22-2022, 01:03 AM)Durian Fiend Wrote: You can't uncouple them. Covid led to the response. The government in Hawaii didn't handle it any differently that other states did, at least initially. Or other countries, for that matter. No one had a crystal ball, they were doing what was thought to be best at the time.
An article last month said Alaska and Hawaii were rated as tops for being Covid safest over the past couple years, so geographic isolation was probably a factor to some degree.
In addition to a better vax uptake than most states, Hawaii has a relatively low obesity rate working in its favor.
Yeah well we've already mentioned a place where they avoided basically all of the downsides that we see here with the exception of external economic forces caused by the rest of the world losing their minds.
Otherwise I essentially agree. There's far more going on in Hawaii. Honestly I think the biggest factor on a place like the Big island might be low use of air conditioning and heating. Respiratory viruses spread best in stagnant air. I wouldn't be surprised if you could live with someone with Omicron in Hawaii with the windows all open and the trade winds blowing and not catch it.
(03-22-2022, 05:44 AM)randomq Wrote: Durian Fiend, I would tell you, but I can't really remember it. I guess it must have worked!
Malahini, depression and loneliness seem like pretty reasonable responses to everything we've gone through. I think it would be worse if a lot more family and friends had died.
There's literally no good evidence any of Ige's policies reduced deaths besides the initial test/quarantine regime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlatio..._causation
There's a place far away that recently had the very highest death rates that had very similar policies, but lack of vaccination of the elderly was the issue. Another place had the same policies but very high vax rates and the deaths weren't that bad despite crazy crazy high case spike.