Like a traffic light, the new Covid protection framework is broken into three levels – red, orange and green. Traffic lights are intended to keep us apart in helpful ways, for everyone’s benefit. Which is why the point bears repeating that the traffic light system must be able to be honestly defended as a workable health protection system, and nothing other than that. Traditional traffic lights are intended to avoid not only mishaps within an intersection, but also ructions just outside it - minimising the prospect of snarl-ups, screeching brakes and abuse. By comparison the Covid traffic light system is nowhere near as simple and there’s still a good deal of detail yet to come about the shades of meaning behind each colour.

Source: Stuff November 24, 2021 01:49 UTC