Plan-demic Redux

The “super-duper corona” plan-demic is ramping up. The local news has reported non-stop on various employees of numerous businesses who tested positive. Even staff at City Hall were infected. The mayor even submitted to a test, which turned up negative. Now, Hawai’i allegedly has the highest reproduction rate (read: rate of spread) in the nation, at 1.6 (according to unnamed “experts”).

The shortage of contact tracing staff has been elevated to a scandal. There is public outrage. Even Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has said that State Department of Health officials “have to go.”

Yet, the goal, according to the State lieutenant governor, is simply to reduce the daily infection count below 20 before September 1st, coincidentally the target date when the floodgates of tourism will swing wide open.

All of that crap would be comical, if it wasn’t so pathetic. The nice manageable “social distancing, face mask, and crowd control (i.e., little arrows pasted on the floor to indicate pedestrian flow) policies work quite well with a few hundred people at a time. However, when the hordes of tourists arrive, none of them will pay any heed. It’s a “clusterfuck” waiting to happen.

There has been no word about the “super-duper corona” screening at the airport. Are tourists still required to provide documentation for testing negative within 72 hours of arrival to avoid the mandatory 14-day quarantine? Who knows? The best guess is that the responsibility will fall upon the hotels (refer to Notes post, “Grift”).

The locals are beginning to panic, thanks to all of the fearmongering. Pretty much 99% of the public are wearing face masks full-time. An increasing number of people are wearing plastic face shields or medical goggles. More people are wearing blue plastic gloves. The pungent odor of hand sanitizers is ubiquitous. The mental illness created by the “super-duper corona” hoax is even worse than the disease itself.

Update: Roach, the sleazy and incompetent bastard who was the director of the State Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, has finally resigned upon two months of paid leave of absence. Good riddance!