U.S., Sept. 15 -- Currently, visitors arriving in the Aloha State of Hawaii need to stay in their hotel rooms for 2 weeks. It means no visits to the pool, the restaurant, or the beach. This is checked by dozens of special agents by the Honolulu Police Department. Violators face a $5000.00 fine, arrest, and up to 1 year in jail.

This has brought tourism to Hawaii to a stillstand. Most hotels are closed, most restaurants are doing take out only or closed up. Waikiki appears to feel like a ghost town.

After several extensions this regulation was supposed to be softened with an advance testing program the State developed and announced to be in place in August and again in September.

The programs in place, the websites to facilitate this pr...