Yes. We finally cancelled too. Even though my family intended to continue reasonable distancing measures, I cannot argue that tourism in general promotes unhealthy close quarters.
I fundamentally disagree with much of how this epidemic is being portrayed. Once we were into February we were way past stopping anything. The new strategy could only be behavioral to *slow* it and allow the system to not be overwhelmed.
Still, if this is what it takes for people to effectively social-distance then it will be good. We must continue to *slow* it.
I strongly believe that Hawaii already has widespread community spread, along with very much of the rest of the country. The South Korean statistics are the most valid with regard to the accuracy of morbidity, mortality, and widespread extrapolation.
All the cases we are learning about this week are from the last 2 weeks’ exposures. For every confirmed case (we know the very high bar that is required to get tested), there are an immense number of untested positives. Also the R0 (R-naught), the measure of transmissibility, is believed to be very high. Combined with a high low-symptom rate, that’s a bad recipe.
I think it was wrong to portray the notion that the first 2 cases were only recently brought back from the mainland. Those were the first two *confirmed* cases based on very hard to get testing when testing was finally available. The anti-tourist vitriol (eta: not on this site) makes me sad. But I think it also comes from fear understandably.