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Dame Jacinda Ardern's Public Stance

4 items · 4 aliases · peaked week of 12 Apr 2026 · first seen 30 Apr 2026

The article reports on Dame Jacinda Ardern's private remarks during the Covid inquiry, where she expressed concerns about implementing uniform health rules for vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, highlighting ethical challenges in pandemic policy.

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In the press Methodology →

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  • uh because she is she is so hard to get a hold of you weren't here bro but i i got emails from the region twice last week talking about this is going to be the security check if you want to get through the door no bulky jackets was one of them no bags bigger than a4 you know there was just there was such a lot of horrible security around it and i sent you the photo of those people who are protesting outside some lovely uh ill-informed people outside but i realised i haven't said much about it anything about it so for people who are under it it was amazing uh they walked out onto stage stacy morrison of course who was also amazing uh was the interviewer they walked out on stage and it was just really nice after watching the Jacinda documentary and realizing what a hard time she has from a from you from Clark's point of view um to see her walk out on stage and the and the crowd went bananas and it was that screaming yelling clapping yeah and I was like yeah same I was like good and then it died down and then it took off again and it was just really lovely to go you know that that shit you get from people outside and online this might be more representative of actually new zealand um and at the end of the show because grant robertson was there they were both doing it at the end of the show um stacy asked them something like what do you wish for each other and jacinda made some kind of offhanded jokey comment and then talked about having a um there's got a good back that his back gets fixed because he's got bad back apparently and grant said that jacinda can come home and it's just like oh and he rented it again so yeah it was pretty cool there was a few tears she was pretty touched by the uh response it was a really uh really interesting really good night and again like close my eyes and i think of um christopher luxon having released a book written by someone else and him having a you know a public um lecture or a public meeting about it and it just feels like night and day night and day like you know it's that whole kind of again while you're away after watching we talked about the Jacinda documentary a couple of times and people talk about um the disparity between um Trump and Obama of eloquence and it just feels like the disparity you can see between Jacinda and Luxon
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