Chad Blair: How Opponents Of COVID Measures Are Stoking Local Resistance Multiple protests are held statewide as GOP leaders increasingly reject vaccine mandates and government restrictions.
At precisely the same time that Hawaii enters its most dangerous phase of the pandemic — record-breaking new COVID-19 cases, rising positivity rates, a slump in inoculations — opposition to vaccine mandates and a general mistrust of government is on the rise locally.
The opposition is coming from organized groups but also elected officials and the Hawaii Republican Party.
Even as the highly contagious delta variant continues to spread, resistance to government and employer requirements to control the virus is solid and threatens to derail state and county goals of reaching herd immunity.
