Kate Hawkesby: Goodbye traffic light system and masks - I won't miss you

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Sep 11, 2022 · 4m

So today is D-day on the traffic light system and whether it continues for us or not.

Let’s hope not. I’m optimistic – but the caveat is, this Government likes control.

This system was all about control, and to ditch it is to lose that.

Problem is, and part of the reason I think they’ll ditch it, is that we’ve all ditched it anyway.

Sick of masks and controls and traffic lights and restrictions, coupled with seeing

Covid in the community for what it really is these days, which is a non-event, we’ve voted with our feet, or our faces.

I was out and about at the weekend both in town and in the…