Hawaii tried to shut its doors to the outside world when the pandemic hit and rightfully so with scores of Chinese travelers and all the Indo-Asian countries in the Pacific flowing into the island as tourists daily. Last year as many as 30,000 tourists came to the Hawaiian islands in a single day, and the average is just a bit lower.
Hawaii Governor David Ige was only able to manage, putting every visitor to Hawaii under a 14-day quarantine in their hotel. Visitors thought this was a joke until they started getting arrested and fined up to $5,000 for leaving their hotel rooms.