Kate Hawkesby: People need to stop living in fear of Covid

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Feb 15, 2022 · 3m

As was inevitable, my daughter’s school had its first Omicron case this week and in came the email notifying parents that a student had tested positive. They immediately followed that up with the very calm assurance that this should have no impact on school attendance, that all students - unless you’d been notified as a close contact - were safe to return to school, that health and safety protocols as per the Ministry of Health were being followed.

This of course does not diminish the alarm that Omicron’s arrived on their doorstep.

Two years of fear-mongering and schools shutting for months…