Hawaiian actor Jason Momoa implores public not to visit Maui as wildfire devastation rages on
Hawaiian actor Jason Momoa implores public not to visit Maui as wildfire devastation rages on
Boycott Fox News.
Fox Lies always gets my downvotes.
Here's a non-Fox link. BBC version of the same story.
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sourcing an article from fox "news" is insane, so many other places for the same story. fuck fox. really.
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My neighbors are going for 2 weeks in a week. They've been planning for more than a year. This will be their last chance to go as a family of 4. I can't see them canceling.
Visiting a burning, inhospitable hellscape where people are actively dying and the rest are having their entire lives destroyed, and doing it for fun because "well, we've been planning it for a while, and want to go somewhere as a family and can't come up with anything else exotic enough for our standards on short notice" is incredibly trashy and selfish.
They sound like shitty people, honestly, and I hope they have an awful time.
Are hotels and travel companies offering refunds?
Talking of ‘having their whole lives destroyed’ - presumably the people actually working in and running the hotels want them there - or else they would be closed
Oh yeah I bet their economy can handle no tourism when it needs money the most. This is really bad for them. They need to encourage tourism but what is there left?
If we forced airlines to honor rescheduling for not a huge cost then this wouldn't be as much of an issue. But I imagine those thousands in ticket prices can't really be burned without canceling the trip for the foreseeable future.
Nows the time for them to use that travel insurance and get a full refund. They may be putting themselves in danger and, regardless, they will be vacationing where people are actively suffering.
Are they staying near Lahaina?
I do not know their detailed plans.
Ask them to leave the keys to their house with you, and give you the alarm codes. 🤫
They usually do.
The fox website should be banned on here.
Fuck Fox, but ignoring the source, it's not wrong.
I know this is more "celebrity" than news, but I'd seen discussions on whether it was better to visit (as a misguided attempt to help via tourism dollars) or stay away.
I think there's a strong argument for traveling there to spend tourist dollars and help them recover economically.
But like...not when the fires are still raging out of control, maybe? You'll just be in the way.
These aren't from this current crisis, but I have a feeling the sentiments haven't changed much:
https://mymodernmet.com/lily-hiilani-okimura-hawaii-tourism/
https://www.irreview.org/articles/hawaii-tourism-opposite-of-a-paradise-for-locals
https://taiswim.co/blogs/bikini-blog/why-you-should-not-come-to-hawaii-for-your-next-vacation
We need the hotel rooms for displaced residents and support personnel arriving to help with the efforts.
Ok, but why a link to fox news?
Which is why I'm blocking OP now. I won't be having any Nazi propagandists posting on my feed if I can help it. Fuck Republicans. Fuck Fox News. Fuck em now, fuck em tomorrow, fuck em all, forever.
Apparently from the toilet, which seems appropriate.