Could it be they have finally got the message?

We are not just going to Green; it isn't even a thing. Because, it appears, the whole mad Traffic Light System is going altogether.

As always, it's a game of tease and wait, no comment, hints, and more no comments.

When they finally sit down to work out Covid settings, whenever that is, given they officially only say a "couple of weeks”, but they have been saying that for over a week. But when they finally work it out, I have no doubt they'll announce an announcement of an announcement or date sometime that isn't the time they are making the initial announcement.

If we can be free of all this by Christmas, psychologically the country will be helped immeasurably. The psychological damage done to us over the past couple of years is a crime.

I still see people daily walking around with masks on outside in the fresh air. Not because it makes any difference, but because they have been bullied into certain behaviour they have never been bullied into before. We didn’t wear masks before, but we wear them now for a caseload that has plummeted and doesn’t affect us anymore.

The psychology of the Government finally cutting us loose will be good for everyone. It'll also be good for the tangibles like tourism as we join the rest of the world in the new normal.

The fact is the Traffic Light System was a con anyway. We were in Red and Orange at stages, but when you looked at the official guidelines as to what was needed or required for us to be in those settings, we weren't.

Rules got made up on the fly and the health system was strained, or not strained, based on politics not health.

It's one of the many things that has undone the Government in terms of honesty and credibility. We looked at the so-called rules, looked at the reality, and too often they didn’t match.

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• Government considers axing Covid traffic lights

The fact we are still in Orange today is nuts. The fact the rules aren't followed by many around masks is no surprise. The fact they are still advertising boosters is equally mad.

Covid is over. Not literally, literally, it may never be over. But in terms of the power of us all moving on, it's over.

And the sooner the power freaks who have set all these mad rules unlock the shackles, the better.