half of Hawaii families could be near or below poverty level by end of year...

[msongs]

since hawaii is so tourist dependent that segment of the job market will be in severe depression for awhile.

the state is struggling to adopt opening for tourists.


https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/06/18/report-even-economy-stabilizes-new-normal-will-mean-many-more-families-living-financial-hardship/

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. I suspect Hawaii is the single most tourist depend

state of all.

I was on a cruise to Hawaii the first half of March. We were probably among the very last tourists there.

[msongs]

2. used ta be 30,000 per Day, now it's just a few hundreds nt

[mahina]

3. Shoot we were there before Covid shutdown.

Not saying it’s untrue.


It is exciting and encouraging to participate in re-imagining new models for sustainable tourism.

I doubt we will ever see the numbers we had before, and that’s crushing for many families.

The crisis has lifted the veil here as in other communities on the underlying social problems we face.

15 people in a two bedroom house, 11 of them are Covid positive so far.

These kinds of living arrangements are not unusual here among some communities.

I’m seeing our homeless population become much thinner. In some cases, more aggressive, in others, seeming like they wait for the end.

The musubis and apples I give are well received but that’s a bandaid, though necessary in the moment.

How do we emerge from this better than before?

How do we emerge from this at all?

Those academic conversations about how much of our tax burden is carried by visitors via GET are academic no more.