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Kate Hawkesby: Traffic Light System still not showing a clear road out of Covid
I don’t know why we keep getting our hopes up for these announcements, they’re always such a letdown. I mean I guess we knew Auckland was starting in Red, and not just Auckland but a total of ten other districts around the country as well. That’s a lot of Red.
The rest of the North Island starts with Orange, the whole of the South Island Orange. No one’s in Green, because guess what?
They’re taking a “cautious approach”. Of course they are. The problem with this whole thing is the lack of definitive criteria for it. That does two things, one, gives the government all the power with little or…
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