it probably came in from the mainland and elsewhere for sure by returning locals and tourists then spread through out the community due to a variety of reasons. But its when they opened the flood gates just like on the mainland, people went party on crazy after being locked for so long. The marches maybe contributed but there were some crazy parties of hundreds everywhere.Hostess and strip bars helped contribute because they can't contact trace those "customers". Birthdays, graduations, funerals, potlucks and other island style socializing contributed to the current mess.
Same for everyone attending the illegal events put on via social media. And then you have those groups (pacific islander/other asian) who aren't "westernized" yet and live under their own cultural rules/understandings. And groups who just don't like to be told what to do like haoles, blacks, FOB chinese and local power playing filipinos(see the chart)
Right now Oahu/Kona is COVID saturated. They estimate 1/50 on Oahu is infected maybe more and although not publically known we were just told today almost every business on oahu is having to shutdown, to clean and then having to test and quarantine all exposed staff and customers for 14 days per CDC guidelines. We had three clusters in my building in just the past two weeks with huge blocks of people just disappearing for no reason (quarantine) and that's taking a huge financial toll on larger organizations trying to stay open. I think this is the one aspect of re-opening that no-one factored in. Opening, then closing for deep cleaning, losing and having to replace an entire staff unit and then doing it all over every other week. Very expensive especially for retailers when the sales volumes are already low. You can see why some especially those who expect to survive would prefer a complete shutdown to cleanse the environment out and start over smarter.
Most of the community spread is from tourists, transplants and younger locals not willing to change their ways/lifestyles and now others in the community are dying who would not have died at this time even with their existing illnesses. People are murdering their fellow citizens with the excuse of "oh well, they were sick and old anyway" story and that's not flying among the medical community and the fewer older local/kamaaina generations.
its going to get ugly here from both a health as well as a compliance manner. HPD is not giving out warnings anymore just tickets. On day one of the closed parks/beaches they had 1400 citations issued. The more parents, grandparents, friends die the more neanderthal the locals tend to get. You saw it in Haena after the floods. You'll see it in the streets here. Local beat downs of people innocent or not they want to blame for their situation. I see and hear the "Don't want to wear a mask/quarantine Haoles go Home" mentalities surfacing among the out of work moke illiterates. Add the death of a loved one and that ugliness escalates 1000%.
Many businesses here are going to fail, houses lost and people moving away. And it will keeping getting worse until people here realize that living on an island in the middle of no where, you have to work together as a community to survive and sometimes that requires allot of self sacrifice for the common good. But if everyone continues to just want to look out for themselves with their modern way of thinking then they are going to sink the whole canoe full of struggling paddlers trying to get to out of the impact zone.
Additional Covid units are being setup in all the major hospitals as well a covid quarantine hotels for locals and incoming tourists. Tourists, returning locals in the new opening plan will either be tested as clean or shuttled off to a quarantine hotel for 14 days. I don't see how the WSL is going to be able to do their thing if this keeps getting worse going into winter.
I guess I probably should get my beneficiaries set on my 4 different employer retirement plans and last will and testament prepared. I already have a do not resuscitate medical directive on file.