Fuck this guy, courting the worst of NZ. So sick of charlatans exploiting collective amnesia over how terrifying 2020 was. It’s this kind of rhetoric that started the stupidest backlash in human history. NZ was the envy of the world. Now in the list of lowest C19 deaths per capita we’re 137th #nzpol
No one was locked in their house for months and the mandates were lawful jfc and ‘locked out of the country’ sucked for a lot of people but it was a necessary quarantine and most people understood and supported it - democratically even.
This guy is a sack of lies and greed.
Funny, I distinctly remember our "dictatorship" that kept everyone "locked inside" encouraging everybody to get out of their house for some exercise every day.
Lost 2 family members in England to it, and know other English people over here who lost more than that. One person with Covid caused 3 deaths over here after a wedding. No or late lockdown and Covid would have ripped through the population.
Worldwide, the main groups that claim NZers were locked in their homes for months are deluded conspiracy theorists with no direct knowledge of NZ and/or the extreme far right making false justifications for calls to violence.
Irony of ironies...Mr Seymour and/or his family are probably alive because of the last govt's decisive actions.
Meanwhile,covid death toll comparison:
Sweden: 27,354 (Worldometer)
Aotearoa: 5,857 (MoH)
Sweden's population is only twice ours.