Anti-maskers endanger the island
I was unable to comment on the article about the meeting of “For Our Rights members” and the council, but seeing the photo told the whole story.
The only ones I saw in masks were a couple of the councilmembers.
At this point in time, the best way to show respect and aloha is with masking and social distance, and I see none of it with this group.
Why is this OK at this point in time?
Wasn’t a cluster tied to this gathering?
Encouraging this type of behavior is alarming to me.
If this group does not want to mask and social distance they should stick to writing letters or emails and using Zoom and not endangering the rest of the island.
Petrina Blakely, Kapa’a
Suggestion for next anti-masker needing surgery
The next time that any of the anti-maskers need surgery, demand that no one in the operating room wear a mask so that you’ll be safe from infection.
John Patt, Koloa
Discrimination must not be tolerated
An anti-vaccination mob has given the Aloha State a huge national black eye.
(Wednesday), Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC interviewed Lieutenant Governor Josh Green. His home had been assaulted a few nights before by people who opposed his stand on medical treatment for COVID-19. His family was attacked with strobe lights, harsh voices on bullhorns, and posters and flyers spread throughout the neighborhood claiming he should not be believed because he is a “Jew.”
Green’s answers to O’Donnell’s questions were reasonable. He explained he is an emergency-room doctor, that the emergency rooms and hospitals are filled beyond capacity with COVID-19 patients, and people need to take precautions to avoid the virus. He did not scold the mob, but it was clear he was worried for his family’s safety and the need to explain to his children that Jewish people are not evil.
It is necessary for people of goodwill to speak out against anti-Semitism as well as any discrimination based on race, color or religious preferences. Why? Because the litany of hate spreads like a virus throughout a community.
To those who say it can’t happen here, you are ignoring the thousand-year history of anti-Judaism. The scream of “Jew,” “Jew,” has led to devastating misery for the people of David.
If good people are silent, bad things happen.
We live in the land of aloha, a place of beauty, kindness and a melting pot of many races united as one. Let us not ruin our treasured homeland by the viper of discrimination and hate. Let us all vow to be pono with each other.
I have experienced discrimination against Latinos, Blacks, Jews and our Japanese brothers and sisters on the mainland U.S. It is ugly. It must not happen in Hawai‘i.
William J. Fernandez, Kapa‘a
Frequent visitors are staying away
We shudder to think of the virus running rampant again in the island state.
We are frequent visitors who have stayed away so as to not expose ourselves to the islanders nor the islanders to us.
We see the occupancy rates of the state’s hospitals increasing to near capacity.
We wonder why when we are dealing with such a remote location of our citizens our government does not do more to assign our assets when there is a need.
We can all complain about President Trump, but he did do his best to assign what we have to places where it would do the most good. Hey, he even assigns a ship with 1,000 hospital beds to New York, but out of spite the governor did not use it.
Why does our existing president not assign that ship to Hawai‘i?
Instead of running around and doing nothing, why not move some of these things so the islands can lean on them?
I am guessing that we would not see the asset sit unused in Hawai‘i.
Why is the press not making positive noises/suggestions like this instead of making the public seem to be the villains because they want to live a life with their families?
Brian Chipman, Florence, Arizona
Looks like the low IQ cowards need more school.
Natural immunity is 10+ times better than any vaccine.
Using your convoluted logic. No one should drive if you think we need to protect you by getting vaccinated…because someone may injure or kill you with their car.
Why treat the obese in hospitals? They did it to themselves…
Most humans have lost all critical thinking and logic.
I think we need a “real” pandemic that takes out the low IQ liberal socialist boneheaded wannabe tyrants.
Petrina, John and William-you are on point! Petrina-these Our Rights are irresponsible and inconsiderate for not wearing masks nor socially distancing at their rally. August 9th is a date that comes to mind regarding Our Rights recent gathering and possible outcome of a covid cluster. John-yes next time one of these Our Rights persons has to make an emergency trip to a hospital or need surgery-let’s see if they want the medical staff to wear a mask…. William -Lt Green does not deserve to be harassed nor bullied.
Discrimination happens all the time in Hawaii. Miss Kauai Filipina is just one example.
Good comments in your letters, but naivety is your middle name. Patt’s comment is particularly amusing. Kind of like, if you eat sugar, no diabetes medicine for you, or, if you smoke a cigarette, no lung operation available? The empty brain syndrome is alive and well on Kauai and is stinking up the pages of a relatively good newspaper! Were you aware that nearly a third of all medications APPROVED by the FDA have led to future health problems and many recalls? The Pfizer CEO said there are 280 ingredients in the Pfizer vaccine, but you google the ingredients and only about 20 are listed? What long term challenges may occur in those who shoot these 280 ingredients and altered RNA into your blood, and brain etc. over time? Are you willing to take the 280 ingredient soup shot every 6 months for life? It’s only protecting you for a very short period of time, you can still get sick, and you are walking around spreading the virus just like everyone else? What will they find are the future health problems, or birth deformities, that may arise over time and in future generations? NOBODY KNOWS! What we do know for sure is that the virus kills zero healthy children, almost zero healthy adults up to 80 yrs. old, and is primarily killing the obese, and those with already existing health problems in nursing homes. It must be a free choice as to which direction anyone wants to take. Bet on the 280 ingredient soup shot that really isn’t a “vaccine” at all because it gives no real long term protection, or, wait and see if there are any long term catastrophe’s that will be revealed over time from this probably MAN MADE virus? A virus that was undoubtedly released from a lab in Wuhan, China that was paid $3.7 million dollars by the U.S. Government NIH through a shell company to experiment with the virus? A virus that was being experimented on in a lab that “coincidentally” was the epicenter of all the initial cases of Covid! But perhaps there was that one in a billion BAT hanging out in the lab neighborhood who gave us the virus? If something smells like a dead animal in the sun, it just may be! Anyone who decides they don’t want their children, or family, to take this experimental “non-vaccine” just may be the most intelligent and blessed with common sense brothers and sisters among us.
The state of Florida has administered more than 10,000 doses of the monoclonal antibodies treatment at state-sponsored sites since Florida began rolling out the program two weeks ago, the office of Gov. Ron DeSantis reported. Demand for the treatment is high and is expected to go higher as as word gets out and new sites are continuing to open throughout the state, Oct 2020, President Trump tested positive for Covid-19. He was hospitalized and was given Monoclonal Antibody treatment along with several other medicines.
When former President Trump made a full recovery from COVID-19 after using monoclonals, he instructed the federal government to buy hundreds of thousands of doses of the two monoclonal treatment drugs and allocate supplies to the states, which would in turn determine distribution to hospitals and healthcare facilities. The doses were allocated to states and U.S. territories based on their share of hospitalized and infected patients.
On Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci touted the effectiveness of Monoclonal Antibodies. He estimated that the treatment could reduce hospitalization by up to 85 percent. Fauci encouraged anyone with suppressed immune systems as well as other mitigating factors take advantage of the treatment.
I wonder way Dr. Fauci waited so long to let the public know about this treatment which he now highly recommends? It wasn’t until Governor DeSantis of Florida implemented monoclonal antibodies treatments at state-sponsored sites that Dr. Fauci spoke up.
I hope Mayor Kawakami & Governor Ige will consider making the Monoclonal Antibody treatment available to people in Kauai rather than locking the islands down once again.
According to Regeneron.com, their Monoclonal antibody treatment is available at Wilcox. Maybe a Nurse or MD employed there can verify this further.
The Regeneron monoclonal antibody treatment is useful for those already infected (4-5 days after symptoms). It is given by infusion or sometimes by injection directly into the belly. The monoclonal antibodies only last for about a month. Vaccines do a better job by stimulating antibodies that have a much longer duration of action. Monoclonal antibody treatment does not respond well to new variants, which is why the Lilly version was discontinued. None of this is news to the medical community including Dr. Fauci. The Regeneron treatment initially was priced at several thousand dollars although the government seems to be shouldering much of the cost.
Disgustingly disappointed.
One things this entire Covid issue has exposed is the true dark underbelly of America. It is overflowing and riddles with Inconsiderate, selfish and greedy people. Look at the food hoarding, the attitudes on airplanes, the vaccine disagreements. True, vaccinations are a personal choice but when unvaccinated person displaces anyone else needing medical attention in a hospital that’s is just wrong. Anyone, explain to me, if you do not trust the science or the medical community of the efficiency of vaccines why in the world do you run to the doctor after you catch it? If you don’t trust them to vaccinate you, how can you trust them to fix you???
That’s not the America I grew up in.
RE: Why does our existing president not assign that ship to Hawai‘i?
There are two Military Hospital ships, the Mercy and the Comfort. The Mercy is in dry dock for mandatory repairs. Mississippi, land of disregard for COVID, asked for the other one on Aug. 12/21.
Too overweight? Downright obese? Have diabetes, heart, stroke, high blood pressure diseases, throw in some cancer, have you been taking those diseases’ lethal prescription drugs for 30 to 40 years; then at that point you are old enough and poisoned by drugs enough to be ripe enough to die, if you get the flu, and lately it’s just Covid and Delta viruses that will finish you off, if you believe the alleged science, if even that’s true.
So ask yourself, what came first, the chicken or the egg…is it the long term diseases with their decades long use of toxic xa’a’prescription drugs and vaccines and boosters that are killing the people, or is it these microscopic flu viruses in the environment that are allegedly killing people.
In the meantime the 98.999% of the people with Covid and Delta that are asymptomatic, or get only mildly ill, shows that Covid and Delta are not real killer viruses in themselves; but the prescription drugs and food and lifestyle caused diseases pre-existing in people are actual killers, while Covid and Delta are just along for the ride to the graveyard or incinerator.
Has anyone ever stopped to consider that Health and Wellness are the more important and better topic, and healthy food and wellness lifestyles are what the newspapers and TV should be flooded with and talking about? Instead of endless stories of sickness and prescription drugs and over the counter medication advertisements.
While there’s something to be said about infection of virus by way of your mouth, nose and eyes; there’s more important to be talked and educated about and that is nutrition, health, and wellness, and prevention of death-causing diseases, and the promotion of Active and Healthy Life Longevity that enters your body through your MOUTH…! What you eat are the building blocks of Health and Wellness.
Warning: Carcinogenic petrochemicals are put in your food, sprayed on your food in agriculture, and are in medications and prescription drugs. And you eat and take these routinely. Is it any wonder you are sick?
It’s the food that lets Covid Kill. Check the Facts, the people dying with Covid have the pre-existing conditions, which are long term diseases, under medical care, and taking plenty daily prescription drugs for decades.
What people don’t realize is that Medical Care is Disease Care.
You eat the Standard Snack Diet available to you at all stores, you get disease, you go to the doctor whose training has been only to give you which pill for which ill and symptoms, and you take those prescription drugs, and even more prescription drugs later as you age, taken for the rest of your life, with no intent by your doctor, nor intent by your own lack of knowledge, of ever getting Well and Healthy.
Most people live by their diseases, just not living very well.
You just take drugs , and more drugs for the ill side effects of the first drugs, and the un-merry go round does not stop until you die prematurely, and that may be by a virus that does not bother almost 99% of other people.
Up to you, live Healthy on live natural foods, or live with ills on pills.
You only live once, it’s your life, and since the doctor and pharmaceutical companies have 80% of the public already on prescription drugs, to them it only stands to reason that doing “better” is to get 100% of the population on drugs, dangerous vaccines with blood clotting spike proteins, and multiple endless boosters, and heart disease caused by vaccine ingredients, ignoring the fact that your body itself can do better without prescription drugs and vaccines and their failing boosters.
False claims are rampant that the vaccine prevents serious symptoms and sickness and hospitalizations. But in Science you can’t prove a negative like drugs prevented hospitalizations, etc., that is wishful drug advertisements.
Turn over a new LEAF in life, go natural, eat only God made food, not factory chemicalized food, make that new LEAF in life be from a fresh unsprayed head of lettuce. A new beginning of a Healthy Life, no need the drugs and vaccines.
Vaccinated people are spreading spike proteins in the community, infecting others who would otherwise be free of blood clot forming spike proteins.
A benevolent society and government, directed by actual health advocates, would be proactive educating the obese and those on long term prescription drugs, and educate them to being Well and Healthy, and end the Lazy Lifestyles of inactivity and fast foods and junk food snacks.
The key to being asymptomatic, when HOPEFULLY you become infected by Covid, is to be Healthy and living a life with an abundance of Wellness.
Petrina:
Perhaps you would be good enough to cite vetted, peer reviewed studies that give us the data proving masks are really effective. Frankly there are none.
What you are saying is that a mask like an N95 which can screen particles as small as .3 microns is capable of stopping a virus particle that is .12 microns. Stated for the innumerate—the mask openings are 2.5 times BIGGER than the virus. How is that supposed to work? What would you say to a person trying to screen 1″ diameter marbles out of dirt using a screen with 2.5″ square mesh? That’s exactly what is happening with the N95–the very best you could buy. Cotton or other particulate masks are only capable of filtering particles +/-2.5 microns. 2.5/.12 = 20.8. Interpreting for you, the mask filtering openings are 20.8 times larger than the virus particles.
Come on, Petrina, even you should be able to see that they are worthless. So enough with the hand wringing and whining about masks!
RG DeSoto
Care to cite peer reviewed studies that show wearing masks are NOT effective?
RG: masks have been used by medical professionals to protect patients for years so it makes enough sense to me to follow medical professional’s advice and use them right now.
Everyone. And they meant it. Or 10 days quarantine. No exception. Even them coming back from Michigan .
RG DeSoto:
An evidence review of face masks against COVID-19
Submitted for peer review July 13, 2020; accepted – University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX December 5, 2020 — User friendly article with Abstract and findings – https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118 from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, January 26, 2021.
Mahalo for the scientific article citing the benefits of wearing face masks. It states that it has been known since the 14th century that face masks work.700 years of common knowledge isn’t enough precedent for some? The dumbing down of humanity has been accomplished.
I think so. If they don’t die first. 2 shots of vaccine. Mainland trip. And positive. And public school. And requirement. And from Indiana.