Aloha, Let Me See Your Papers!

In what may be the stupidest decision in tourism history, the state of Hawaii is supposedly working on a mandatory app-based vaccine passport:

Hawaii’s tourism officials see the initiative as a way to fast-forward the state’s economic recovery. “Businesses have lost a lot of money during this whole period here so there’s a lot to recoup,” Mufi Hannemann, president and CEO of the Hawaii Tourism and Lodging Association, told Hawaii News Now. “But more importantly, we’re anxious to get this economy moving forward in a safe and healthy manner.”

The notion of vaccine passports is a politically contentious issue in the United States, with Republican governors in a slew of states — including Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Nebraska, Utah and Idaho — banning vaccine passports in their states, arguing that they violate users’ privacy rights and discriminate against the unvaccinated, and GOP elected officials frequently rail against the idea on social media.

If this proves to be the death knell for an economy that very much depends upon tourism, they only have themselves to blame.  We can already imagine the advertisements that Florida tourism promoters will be running.

41 Replies to “Aloha, Let Me See Your Papers!”

  1. Help us record yourselves breaking our Pandemic rules so we have evidence to fine your ass!
    Please…

    Same reason why nobody in Canada wanted to upload Trudeau’s app in quarantine of 14 days recorded if you broke these rules and others could squeal on you.
    And our government could fine you.

  2. I am currently living in Hawaii. We actually have a clue how to deal with Covid. The passport will allow us trouble free movement between islands and is a very popular idea.

    1. The US constitution already allows trouble free movement between all states in the union dork.

      1. As in the Australian Constitution, which specifies in section 92, that there shall be freedom of intercourse between the states. This wording has often raised a chuckle.

        That aside, as I understand these things in a US context, the Constitution is, as per the 2nd Amendment of the Bill of rights, NOT declaring what MAY be permitted, but what MUST NOT BE done.

        BIG difference: However, the Pollimuppets and their enablers / handlers in the LSM are HUGE fans of the Napoleonic code, (but the latter are less enthusiastic about it if they are the “guilty bastards”: “Situational Ethics” being their stock in trade..

        Napoleonic Code?

        Viz: March in the guilty bastard!. If you were not guilty you would not have been brought to this place. Anything to say before you are loaded onto the tumbrel?”

        Next guilty bastard!”

        And so on; the Napoleonic code in a scrotum, or nutshell.

    2. But Ed, people like me – who almost went there in the fall of 2019 (big sigh) – will hesitate or not go at all and choose elsewhere.
      Its not an anti-vaccine thing either.
      If its temporary, ok, but if its permanent…

      1. We are currently getting over run by tourists…rental cars are going for $500/day. Restaurants/stores everything is open. Just need a clean Covid test to enter the State as well as before changing islands.

        1. A test is reasonable.
          As an aside, Canada has lots of tuberculosis because…immigration. But its never discussed.

    3. Still have flights for Qty (3) to Hawaii in COVID limbo since planned vacation May 2020. Not even going to try and claim them if this goes through, plenty of other sunny destinations that would love our tourist dollars.

      BTW – Doesn’t Hawaii have the largest homeless population per capita in the US? I see that it dropped to second in 2020, but back on track in 2021, lovely.

      https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/06/11/hawaii-news/hawaii-sees-slight-uptick-in-homeless-population/

    4. I have made annual trips to Maui since 1988–2021 was the first year I missed. Should a Vaccination Passport b e required I will happ[ily spend my tropical vacations in areas that don’t require them! Tourism is the lifeblood of the islands–Politicians would be wise not to drain it!

      1. I have made annual trips to Maui since 1988–2021 was the first year I missed.

        I take it you’re not one of Kenney’s cabinet ministers…..

    5. Ya know … there are many other communicable diseases and STD’s that travelers carry. Where are the hepatitis passports? Herpes papers?

      As cited above … the US Constitution guarantees the Free Travel between states. Using “Emergency Powers” to suspend my constitutional rights has to STOP. Even though I HAVE my Vaccination Card … I’m never gonna show it to ANYONE, except maybe my Doctor, if he has a need to see it.

      And I have tickets for a trip to Maui in September. I will NOT be showing anyone my “papers”, and I expect that I will NOT be wearing a mask on the airliner or anywhere else.

  3. Covid passport,masks,distancing,etc Yet when you get the vaccine we still have to do all of the above.Make up your phuking mind

    1. Come to a North Carolina Beachfront,

      Don’t wear a Mask,
      We don’t give a shit

  4. Ed your a Democrat or liberal .I didnt know there was a place called Hawaii in Ontario

    1. I voted for Sheer and am Albertan but carry on. I can’t believe a Canadian is OK to use a passport to fly to the US but not a passport to ensure the plane isn’t a Covid pit.

      1. Problem is just because I’ve been vaccinated I still have to wear a mask and distance cause I may still be contagious and let’s not even talk about the dreaded variants. So what good would a vaccine passport do anyone? I don’t get it.

  5. So Hawaii has finally figured out how to get rid of those damned money spending vacationing haole’s and solve the homeless problem at the same time! Collapse the economy and let the homeless live in the abandoned condo’s along Alii Drive. Genius!

  6. We will all be able to visit Hawaii again without papers, once China takes posession, which won’t be long, if the likes of Ed are running the place.

  7. Only progressives who have taken the jab will be allowed, and they will have the islands all to themselves, just like they have written up in their population reduction (Agenda 21/30…whatever) plan for enjoying the world all by themselves. None of the deniers and deplorables need to visit the tropical garden paradises of the world anymore, as we are the “workers/slaves” doing the menial jobs to sustain their pathetic existences.

    Ed hasn’t a clue that the workers providing the diesel fuel to run the electric generators will be exterminated and the diesel will run out and they will all go back to eating bananas and pineapples and grubs within a very short time.

    Selfishness has a very high cost, but not realized until the pain is deep in the belly.

    1. I did visit Hawaii a couple of years ago. Absolutely beautiful scenery, but I came away think that it is best suited for either surfers or the very rich. I have no plans to go back.

  8. Not surprised Hawaii may be giving this a go, for the reason that unlike other states that last year were participating “if you’re coming from the following states, you have to quarantine” competition which in quite a few situations was not that difficult to ignore, if you’re going to Hawaii it’s a heckuva lot harder to get around that type of stuff. So whether you want to vacation there or you really need to get there (family issue, for example), they’re betting it’ll work well enough to make it worthwhile.

    Guaranteed, though, that if they do try it there will be at least one federal lawsuit filed in a hurry.

  9. Someone should point out to them that it would be cheaper just to make the unvaccinated have something sown onto their clothes in order to be identified… perhaps a yellow star…

    1. Considering where the wuflu came from, and the fact that the yellow star was already used, (no disrespect to our Jewish friends intended) Perhaps it should be a red star!
      Anyway, if Hawaii does initiate it, there will be lots of room for the locals, cuz most tourists are already pissed, and this just adds to the pain.

  10. Hawaii should have never become a state in the first place. It has become a launchpad for insanity and anti western sedition.

  11. Don’t sweat it, no Canaduhn will have both “vaccine” shots before September (and who believes that target?)

    So no tourist passport for you-suckers. We cannot even cross the US land border FFS. As an aside, who do I apply to for a refund of my NEXUS pass unusable for over a year?

    In fact with Blackie in charge, ably assisted by hysterical provincial “health” officers we will consider ourselves lucky if we are “allowed” to leave home for even the most basic requirements.

      1. I am bigotted alright, against all political stupidity, and the Canaduhn’s who bow down to it.

        I do believe we are in agreement however that our current crop of “leaders” would like these theatrics to continue indefinitely.

  12. The mistake seems to be thinking that people are not travelling because of the virus. I would contend that people are not travelling because of government restrictions. I would happily drive to the States, if it were not so onerous getting back and forth across the border. It is also not clear the the vaccines will really protect against transmission of Covid, so I am not sure what the passports accomplish — apart from eliminating some potential travelers.

  13. You already have to produce evidence of a negative test to fly. The vax passport is just politicians saying, ‘we’re doing something’.

    1. I think you guys are not getting it…you need a clean Covid test to travel to Hawaii but you will need another clean Covid test or proof of vaccine to travel between islands. Covid tests for travel here cost $150/pop. Vaccine passport id free…atm we laminated our CDC proof of vaccination card so next month we can use that to avoid testing costs.

      1. I don’t think YOU are getting it. Taking the shot…. it is not a vaccine…. does not mean that you can not acquire and spread the virus. At best it protects you from having it severely. If you get it mildly you are more dangerous in my opinion as you feel fine and carry on with your life. You are not getting it to protect me, only to protect you. If you are on a plane after vaccination you are still a potential asymptomatic spreader.

  14. So, if you step off the plane without the right documents, authorities will lei down the law on you?

  15. Hawaii is expensive enough so that one has to have some wealth to vacation there – the Caribbean is much cheaper, at least from here on the east coast of the USA. The rich are all in on the Wuhan Panic and don’t have any respect for the Constitution, so this might work for Hawaii.

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