KrazyKid:

 

Sound to me that the government is going to make masks compulsory at Lvl 2 and above.
Also they are planning to make scanning/signing in with QR codes/logs compulsory for some venues at Lvl 2 and above.

 

I take the post cabinet announcement as the pre-warning to get people use to the idea. 
I'd expect to here this is a the new rules next week after they get  a report.

 

If Aussie can do it, we can.
It's a good idea.

 

If there had been CT in Wellington last week our L2 would have been totally insufficient to stop spread. With our incredibly low vaccination rates there is just no model that would stop spread.

Even with the requirement for those who were contacts at the locations of interest to self isolate, there is no requirement for household members to self isolate. We know from plenty of data that there is a pretty good chance they would spread it to household members. The differences in how different retailers and businesses are handling L2 is also huge, ranging from business as usual with zero changes at many places, to Domino's Pizza in Lower Hutt which is really taking things to the next level. All staff are wearing masks, and they have the entry coned off with everybody being told to wait outside and a single person at a time being allowed to enter to pick up pizzas.

With the lack of social distancing and no real increase in QR scanning it is pretty clear that any mythical beliefs that still exist of a "team of 5 million" are history. We now have a deeply divided country with growing numbers every day who simply don't care and don't see Covid as a risk because we got it drummed into us that we beat Covid and won and that we're the best in the world. Once people anywhere in society have the mentality that they are the best and that they are invincible it's normally when things implode.

I'm not convinced at this point that we'll leave L2 tonight even though we've had no cases. While it does seem highly probable now that we've avoided any infection here, and the fact L2 is so poor had their been any further CT you'd assume further cases would have shown up by now, but the simple fact is testing numbers are simply way too low.