Semaphore fashion.
Semaphores are a mixed bag. For several weeks now we have been looking at a "traffic light" map of Europe, which is supposed to give us a clear and visible signal of which destinations are safe and which are not. God knows why it is called a traffic light when it is not colours lined up underneath each other, as the vast majority of traffic lights are. They are haphazardly spread across the continent and still change their position every few minutes. Really the only similarity is in the use of colours, namely red, orange and green, which with the total number of primary colours (7 - 12) is not a very surprising choice. Not to mention that the original meaning of the word traffic light is narrowed down to two instructions: stop and go. A map of Europe designed in this way, providing indicative information on the accessibility of one country or another, is perhaps still acceptable. However, the coronavirus traffic light presented by the Minister for Health engages in a fierce battle with logic. Suddenly, all traffic lights turn pale with envy, because the new one, the Vojtěch one, suddenly has four colours. The most desirable and pleasant one is the typical traffic light white, which is perhaps only used as a driving instruction for trams on small auxiliary signals at intersections. Oddly, instead of the usual "traffic light" orange, yellow is given to indicate a second level of danger. I wonder why? A possible explanation may be the rather different meaning of the colour given in the case of this particular traffic light. In traffic, the colour orange does not indicate any danger, but an instruction to stop or clear the intersection. For more aggressive drivers, however, orange means, "Push harder to make it." And that's probably not what Vojtěch has in mind, rather it is a kind of warning that danger is approaching. The details need to be explained at the next press conference. It's quite possible that from now on everything will be traffic lights, no matter how many colours, and never mind which ones. If this is a consequence of Transport Minister Havlíček's influence on his party colleague by subtly injecting transport terminology into the health service, then I guess we have something to look forward to. Enough about the fact that Havlicek says some things don't run over some things. However, it is obvious that trains do go over something or somewhere, even when they have a red light. Or brown, whatever.
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