Letters: Allow vaccinated to skip travel testing; Head Start helpers create miracles; Ala Wai bridge would blight neighborhood

Enable vaccinated to skip journey testing

The state ought to make an exception that permits all vaccinated individuals, with a card proving they’ve been vaccinated, to enter Hawaii with out quarantining or having to take a COVID-19 check 72 hours earlier than arriving right here.

Vaccinated individuals must be allowed to journey once more with no travel-related restrictions. As an alternative, everybody, together with vaccinated individuals, are advised to carry off on travelling.

There’s a 10% probability that the vaccination will fail to guard an individual from the virus, however are Gov. David Ige and well being officers ready for 100% herd immunity earlier than enjoyable the foundations on coming into Hawaii?

Hawaii’s financial system could be very reliant on tourism and must reopen as quickly as attainable. It doesn’t matter how you are feeling about tourism; it’s the major lifeblood for a wholesome Hawaii financial system.

Stuart Shimazu

Kaimuki

State, metropolis hoodwink the poor, remainder of us

Sickening, simply sickening.

First we now have Democratic Gov. David Ige chopping basic help funds to the poorest of the poor, most of whom are disabled, by one-third, from the unlivable charge of $388 per 30 days to the much more unlivable charge of solely $260 per 30 days. Then we now have the chopping of 145 positions from the Division of Human Providers, together with virtually 50 positions that assist our neediest neighbors with help with shelter and meals and youngster care.

Not desirous to be outdone by Ige’s cruelty to our individuals, Trumpite Mayor Rick Blangiardi is making a gift of thousands and thousands of {dollars} to grasping builders simply in order that they’ll present faux “inexpensive” leases together with “solely” $2,360-plus per 30 days for a tiny studio, $2,519 for a one-bedroom, and, no shock, virtually $3,000 for a two-bedroom unit.

Why, in my townhouse complicated in Waialae-Kahala, the rents for a two-bedroom, two-bath items are lower than that.

This can be excellent news to those that thought Democrats and the GOP would by no means agree on something. However to everybody else, we all know we now have been hoodwinked and scammed.

Joel Fischer

Waialae

Why would anybody assault Asian in N.Y.?

Girl Liberty, why?

My mother and father got here to Hawaii earlier than statehood. I used to be born right here and am grateful to be a U.S. citizen of Filipino ancestry.

I used to be saddened and upset to learn in regards to the brutal assault of a 65-year-old lady who occurs to be Filipino (“Suspect in attack on Asian American woman in NYC is arrested,” Star-Advertiser, March 31). The attacker advised her, “You don’t belong right here.” If all of the Asians in New York didn’t work for in the future in protest, I imagine individuals would understand their contribution to the state.

To the safety guard who noticed the assault and closed the door, what would you inform your mom when she asks, “Why?”

Marlyne Menor Agsalda

Wahiawa

Ala Wai bridge would blight neighborhood

Regardless of being panned by the overwhelming majority of these attending two public hearings over the previous six years, the state Division of Transportation is again but once more to push a bridge venture between Ala Wai Neighborhood Park and Waikiki down the throats of close by residents (“Ala Wai Canal bridge project moving forward,” Star-Advertiser, March 8).

So as to add insult to harm, the design the DOT favors features a 180-foot floodlit tower anchoring a suspension bridge, with an enormous concrete footprint squatting on the Ala Wai Neighborhood Park. This design might slot in Bangkok (the place there exists an identical bridge) however is starkly mistaken for Honolulu.

In view of overwhelming group opposition, I’m moved to marvel the place the push for this undesirable monstrosity comes from. With the mauka neighborhood solidly opposed, I can solely conclude that the tourism pursuits in Waikiki are behind this, a lot as the rich homeowners at Park Lane tried to foist an undesirable “playground” upon the native individuals utilizing Ala Moana Park.

Progressive fashions of tourism help the group quite than extract from it. Foisting this monstrosity upon Moiliili is extractive.

Ken Sentner

McCully-Moiliili

Head Begin helpers create miracles

I really like residing in Hawaii. It’s a stunning place to reside and the individuals who have been right here earlier than us, the Native Hawaiians, are our basis of the aloha spirit that improves our on a regular basis lives.

We reside in a religiously and culturally numerous atmosphere and respect each other. It’s a good place to lift a household with constructive values.

I’m a retired particular schooling instructor and I’m involved about our keiki’s instructional alternatives between 3 and 5 years outdated. I labored within the Head Begin preschool program for greater than eight years. My job was to show youngsters with particular wants throughout the Head Begin class of normal schooling college students.

If you wish to really feel actually good, attempt serving to out Head Begin, the households, the individuals and public preschool schooling. A special- wants 3-year-old is usually paired up with a daily schooling youngster to learn to navigate the world by imitating a peer in a constructive method.

“Come play with me,” and there it goes. When a 5-year-old holds fingers with a special-needs youngster, miracles occur.

Sandra Z. Armstrong

Kailua

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