HONOLULU – In normal times, Roland Chang and his three sons start their day at dawn, picking up tourists in Waikiki and driving them to the ocean for a boat ride to see dolphins and turtles swimming in clear blue waters.
Four nights a week, the family’s band performs Hawaiian music and popular songs at a hotel. Their friends call them workaholics.
To them, it’s a routine. Or was until the coronavirus pandemic landed in Hawaii. Like many businesses in tourism-dependent Hawaii, the Changs’ company has had no income for two months.
And they don’t know if it will survive to see a post-COVID-19 world. But they agree with the restrictions imposed in the name of public health.