direction. but this isn t really a time to take, you know, your foot off the pedal. and so, definitely commends having more of a cautious approach. this virus can really throw a lot of curveballs. and then also, what s to say that there might be another new variant, which the w.h.o continues to warn us about. you know, this virus and other coronaviruses do share genetic information. there is precedent for that. we haven t seen that yet, but is that something that s going to happen this winter? we hope not. i would argue that we re not testing vaccinated people that arrive here in hawaii, but the federal guidelines for international travel say that we should. the u.s. is on every other country s really high list of being dangerous for travel or for travelers to come to their country.
any month that we ve ever had since this pandemic started. so the delta variant really, really hit hawaii very, very hard. but again, fortunately we re past peak. but our icus are still very full. and our hospitals are still jammed up. less so than before. and we re heading in the right direction. but this isn t really a time to take your foot off the pedal. and so definite ly commends having more of a cautious approach. this virus can really throw a lot of curveballs. and then also what s to say that there might be another new variant which the w.h.o. continues to warn us about. this virus and other coronaviruses do share genetic information. there is precedent for that. we haven t seen that yet. but is that something that s going to happen this winter? we all hope not. absolutely, absolutely hope not. but it s something we need to prepare for. and i would argue we re not testing vaccinated people here that arrive here in hawaii but