No rationale for interisland quarantine
Fourteen-day interisland quarantine rationale? None.
Take New York City for example. It had/has one of the highest rates of COVID-19. And what is the driving time and the distance between Manhattan (New York City) and Lake Placid, New York? Five hours and 12 minutes by car and a distance of 243 miles. No quarantine in the state of New York.
What is the flight time and distance between Hawaii County and Honolulu County? Thirty-six minutes and 200 miles. But there is a quarantine in State of Hawaii .
Why do we have a quarantine between counties in Hawaii and not between counties in New York? So how does Hawaii differ from New York
Answer: We have water/ocean as opposed to land separating our counties.
So what is the rationale of imposing the 14 day Quarantine for interisland travel from Honolulu to all other islands? None.
Lei Kihoi
Kailua-Kona
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