Kate Hawkesby: Yesterday's press conference was disingenuous and plain cruel

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Oct 18, 2021 · 2m

You knew when the PM started selling the idea that we should be so grateful not to be going into level 4, that the mind games were on, and she was going to make Level 3 sound like a picnic.

And picnics as it turns out, is all we got. Two more weeks of them.

I could not have called this more wrong. Yesterday, I optimistically said they’d definitely free up some restrictions. I thought a zoo or a museum or the odd library may get thrown a bone.

How wrong I was. Two more weeks at Level 3 for Auckland, and the announcement that a slew of announcements will be dripfed over the coming week. If we…