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Of all the states in America, Hawaii imposed the strictest lockdown rules to fight the COVID War. Now with “cases” on the rise, Hawaii has re-imposed draconian measures.
As reported by Reuters on 11 August, Gov. David Ige announced on 10 August that restrictions that had been relaxed in June, with social gathering limits increased to 25 persons indoors and 75 persons outdoors, have now, by executive order, been scaled back to 10 persons indoors and 25 persons outdoors.
The state’s health department has logged an increase in cases of 168 percent between 26 July and 8 August, despite more than 60 percent of Hawaii’s population being fully vaccinated. The increase is blamed on the Delta variant of the virus, which is said to also account for case counts and hospitalizations across the U.S. reaching the highest level in six months.
The governor’s dictatorial executive order also reduces the indoor capacity of bars, gyms, restaurants and social establishments to 50 percent. But proposals for professionally sponsored events with more than 50 people will be reviewed by county authorities to see that “appropriate safe practices will be implemented.”
The inference seems to be that inviting more than 10 persons to a private indoor party or more than 25 persons to a family luau is verboten, but a “professionally sponsored” gathering may be deemed permissible.
There’s no telling, of course, what kind of economic fallout might ensue from these new restrictions, given that Hawaii is particularly dependent on tourism and, as we noted in September 2020’s “60 PERCENT OF CLOSED BUSINESSES WILL NOT REOPEN, YELP SAYS.” Hawaii was the state that suffered the greatest rate of business losses in the shutdowns that marked the start of the COVID War when back in late March 2020, its Governor, David “Idiot” Ige declared “I cannot stress enough that we need everyone to please stay at home or in their place of residence.”
Ige also stated during his afternoon news conference, “… As alien as it might be for those of us in the Aloha State, we must avoid physical contact with friends and loved ones to protect all of us in this crisis.”
TRENDPOST: Totally ignored back then, and totally ignored today as Australia and other nations issue shelter-in-place orders is that the risk of getting the virus outdoors is extremely low, according to data we have provided.
Indeed, in a 17 May 2021 New York Times article, they noted that “The C.D.C.’s new guidance was issued amid growing debate over why the federal government was still recommending that people wear masks outdoors. Writing in The New England Journal of Medicine last week, Dr. Paul Sax, an infectious disease expert at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Massachusetts, said it was time to end outdoor mask mandates.”
TRENDPOST: Despite the CDC suggesting that vaccinated people do not have to wear masks outdoors and the numerous studies, such as the one from MIT we reviewed in the Trends Journal of the very low odds of catching the virus outdoors, (See our 27 April article, “MIT CHALLENGES SOCIAL DISTANCING RULES.”), now, again, young and old in many states and nations are re-masked up.
Moreover, The Journal of Infectious Diseases has noted: “Five identified studies found a low proportion of reported global SARS-CoV-2 infections occurred outdoors (<10%).”