The two things I picked up out of that press conference yesterday – 1, the Prime Minister seems to think we live in a Monday to Friday economy.

She talked about it only being another 2 business days in lockdown.

Simply not true.

Retailers who operate online, cafes and drive throughs who can do takeout, they’re all 7 day a week outfits, they were ready to go Thursday and trade through, that would’ve given them an extra 5 days, not 2.

And the other thing I noticed, she walked back the word ‘elimination.’

She started back tracking on achieving that, and explaining that elimination does not actually mean elimination.. as in ruling the virus out. Surely it’s either elimination or it's not?

The people most affected by yesterday's call are small business owners, and the education sector.

And look where we're back to for them.. we are back to the old, "if you can, you should" talk.

The 'high trust’ model that worked so well for those voluntary self isolators, not.

“If you can work from home, do."

“If you can keep kids at home, do”..  

Lack of clarity makes this messy and only leads to confusion.

And I think it's a bit unfair on schools.

How on earth do schools teach two different ways, both online and in person? Why are they relegated to a babysitting service?

And what about senior students? Surely their education is more important, surely those sitting NCEA and needing face time with teachers and proper structure are the ones who should be back to school first. They're easier to socially distance, easier to manage compliance, and with way more important work to get done.

As the educationalists have said all along, for younger children a few weeks of patchy education won’t matter.. for senior students it could mean make or break.

And when it came to the prickly issue of Early Childhood centres opening, did you notice when that got raised at the press conference the PM immediately batted it to Ashley Bloomfield.. saying that was his decision and she’ll leave that to him.

God forbid she gets saddled with an unpopular decision.

Yesterday's extra week of lockdown was not a unanimous Cabinet call. The PM said there were 'differing views'.

As businesses languish another week, I'd hazard a guess those differing views may get louder.

Whether the government hops out of its echo chamber to hear them, is another story.