![]() ![]() “A few times a day, we upload and download email so people stay in touch with their family and friends. It was very strange to think about.”īefore they leave, team members are often asked if they want to receive bad news while away, said Cynthia Vanderlip, the supervisor for the Kure program. “All these … precautions, these things, people sick everywhere. “I’ve never seen anything like this, but I started reading the book “The Stand” by Stephen King, which is about a disease outbreak, and I was thinking, ‘Oh my goodness, is this what it’s going to be like to go home?’” said Charlie Thomas, one of the four island workers. They must adjust to wearing face masks, staying indoors and seeing friends without giving hugs or hearty handshakes. ![]() Now they are back, re-emerging into a changed society that might feel as foreign today as island isolation did in March. With no television or internet access, their only information came from satellite text messages and occasional emails. Cut off from the rest of the planet, their world was limited to a tiny patch of sand halfway between the U.S. There, more than 1,400 miles from Honolulu, they lived in isolation for eight months while working to restore the island's environment. HONOLULU (AP) - Just as the coronavirus pandemic began to take hold, in February, four people set sail for one of the most remote places on Earth - a small camp on Kure Atoll, at the edge of the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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