Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

This time yesterday I was saying how hopefully this lockdown would be short and sharp. Oh how much can change in 24 hours, that now looks like a pipe dream. But I was trying to stay optimistic, take it one day at a time, have a good attitude about it. But then I saw the 1 o’clock update. Oh my gosh. It brought everything back didn’t it? I tried, I really did, but I wanted to stick needles in my eyes by about 4 minutes in. I’d forgotten how soul destroying it is to be spoken to like a 3-year-old. I also felt exasperated that the press gallery seem to have all had lobotomies and are unable to ask a single probing question. Not one.  I understand this has come from the top down. The PM apparently has issued instructions on how these 1pm pressers are to go, they have to play by the rules, and the rules appear to include only getting your question answered if your question is an easy one.  Like, 'remind us again Prime Minister of what people should be doing in their bubbles? Or, ‘could you tell the NZ public again