So much for social distancing
At the beautiful White Sands beach during the time the lifeguard is on-duty, not a soul on the beach. But after they leave … another story.
Around 5:30 p.m. Thursday around 5o people or more were or on the beach or in the water or playing volleyball
So much for social distancing …why bother closing at all? No one is enforcing.
Heather Mueller
Kailua-Kona
Mayor should greet arrivals
I understand that Mayor Harry Kim is still allowing flights to land on the Big Island, so maybe he should go to the airport personally and give them the traditional greeting, a hug, kiss, a lei, and welcome them to Hawaii.
I am a native, born and raised on Big Island.
Everett M Brumaghim Jr.
Eagle Creek, Oregon
Cancel RIMPAC 2020
From late June to early August, every two years since the early 1970s other countries have come to Hawaii to join the U.S. military in conducting war games — bombing air, land and sea. In 2018, more than two dozen countries — including some 47 surface ships, five submarines, 18 national land forces, and more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel participated in RIMPAC. The war games include the bombing and shelling of the military Pohakuloa Training Area.
We say — enough already. We say no to RIMPAC 2020. We say stop the bombing of Pohakuloa and conducting war games in the air, on land, and the sea around Hawaii. This is not aloha and malama honua (taking care of the Earth). Wage peace, not War. End the illegal U.S. military occupation of Hawaii that has been ongoing since 1893 when the U.S. Military assisted foreign business interests in the illegal overthrow of the lawful government of the independent nation of Hawaii.
And, given the COVID-19 virus, military personnel arriving in Hawaii for RIMPAC 2020 will endanger residents of Hawaii — on some of the most isolated islands in the world.
Jim Albertini
Malu ‘Aina Center For Non-violent
Education &Action
