𝕎𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝕗𝕒𝕞𝕠𝕦𝕤 ℙ𝕄 𝕁𝕒𝕔𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕒 𝔸𝕣𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕟 𝕙𝕚𝕥𝕤 𝕓𝕒𝕔𝕜 𝕒𝕥 𝕣𝕦𝕟 𝕒𝕨𝕒𝕪 ℙ𝕄 𝕁𝕠𝕙𝕟 𝕂𝕖𝕪'𝕤 𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕡𝕚𝕕 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕤

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𝕎𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝕗𝕒𝕞𝕠𝕦𝕤 ℙ𝕄 𝕁𝕒𝕔𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕒 𝔸𝕣𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕟 𝕙𝕚𝕥𝕤 𝕓𝕒𝕔𝕜 𝕒𝕥 𝕣𝕦𝕟 𝕒𝕨𝕒𝕪 ℙ𝕄 𝕁𝕠𝕙𝕟 𝕂𝕖𝕪'𝕤 𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕡𝕚𝕕 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕤


ℕ𝕖𝕨 ℤ𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕕'𝕤 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝕗𝕒𝕞𝕠𝕦𝕤 ℙ𝕣𝕚𝕞𝕖 𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕁𝕒𝕔𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕒 𝔸𝕣𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕟 𝕚𝕤 𝕙𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕓𝕒𝕔𝕜 𝕒𝕥 𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕚𝕞𝕤 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕥𝕙𝕖 ℙ𝕄 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕣𝕒𝕟 𝕒𝕨𝕒𝕪 𝕁𝕠𝕙𝕟 𝕂𝕖𝕪 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝔾𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕟𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥'𝕤 ℂ𝕆𝕍𝕀𝔻-𝟙𝟡 𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕡𝕠𝕟𝕤𝕖 𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕘𝕪 𝕚𝕤 𝕓𝕒𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕠𝕟 "𝕗𝕖𝕒𝕣" 𝕒𝕟𝕕 "𝕙𝕠𝕡𝕖".


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ormer Prime Minister Sir John says health officials and the Government are peddling fear around COVID-19 - which he believes doesn't work. 

"Fear and hope are not a strategy. They don't actually work," he told The AM Show on Monday, a day after NZ media outlets including Newshub published his scathing column on the Government's COVID-19 response. 

But Ardern said the Government hoped to ease restrictions once 90 percent of the eligible population was fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

She told The AM Show the Government's plan is based on facts and statistics and disagreed with Sir John's comments.





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"He is wrong," Ardern said. "Hope and luck have not got us the lowest case numbers in the OECD, the lowest death rates, an economy that returned to pre-COVID levels, low unemployment even outside of a pandemic and, might I say, some of the fewest restrictions that any country has experienced." 

Ardern said the Government has a plan and a high vaccination rate was crucial for that plan to work. Sir John earlier gave ideas to boost those numbers.

"If you go to young people who, frankly, are under no pressure to go and get vaccinated, go and tell them, 'I tell you what, you can't go to Rhythm n Vines, you can't go to a nightclub, you can't go to a bar, you can't get on the Air New Zealand flight' - go and see how many of them still think spoons can stick to their left arm when they're getting the vaccine," Sir John said.

And he's found an ally in Epsom MP David Seymour, who served as Regulatory Reform Minister under Sir John between 2014 and 2017 as part of a confidence and supply agreement with Seymour's ACT Party.

Speaking to Newshub, Seymour said New Zealand won't get very far with the Government's scaremongering.

"It's time to move from fear and uncertainty to hope and optimism - if we're not prepared to do that then all we have is misery and suffering."

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Seymour said there needed to be a plan for getting New Zealand back to normal.

Last month, before the emergence of New Zealand's Delta outbreak, Ardern released a four-phase plan to ease restrictions and reconnect the country over the next six months.

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