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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-652/
- Published: 2022-10-14T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-10-14T04:13:22.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: COVID-19, Health, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:48

> Although the traffic light system was [scrapped in September](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/474633/reactions-mixed-as-covid-19-traffic-light-system-comes-to-an-end?ref=goodoil.news), Baker believes there’s still a need for some kind of alert level.  
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> “What I do think we need is that we have a system that when the risk of infection rises we have the equivalent of an alert level system that describes the level of risk in a way that people really understand.  
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> “We have alert level systems for fires, for earthquakes, for all these other threats. I think we need one again for the pandemic.”  
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> Baker says such a system could have simple measures that kick in when cases reach a certain level, such as mask mandates for public transport.  
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> “I think at the moment, unfortunately, government and other groups are quite worried as being seen to do anything systematic.  
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> “I think we need that leadership with the pandemic.”  
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> SunLive

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