Well known former National Party MP and vaccine expert Sandra Goudie has hit the headlines again. Two months ago she hit the news when she admitted that she does not scan where she goes. I commented at the time that she was not scanning to own the libs.
She has also in the past tried to sabotage our climate change response, again presumably to own the libs and has refused to say whether or not she believes in climate change because the issue was politically charged and driven.
She has been at it again, this time stating that the Pfeizer vaccine is not good enough for her and she will be waiting for the Novovax vaccine to be available before she gets vaccinated.
Novovax is an American company formed in the 1980s that has never before brought a successful vaccine to market. In 2020 it signed up to a massive contract with the Trump administration. Its performance is promising but it has not been approved yet. It is a more traditional form of vaccine compared to Pfeizer.
I don’t know why a former farmer should prefer her personal analysis over some of the best medical brains in the country. Maybe it is all to do with a belligerent refusal to do what Jacinda Ardern asks of us.
Local Councillor Gary Gotlieb did not hold back. From the Herald:
Councillor Gary Gotlieb said he was flooded with messages from people asking him: ‘What the hell is going on?’
“She’s wrong because she actually doesn’t understand how much damage she’s doing, and that’s my concern,” the district’s South East Ward councillor said.
“It’s considered stupidity,” he told the Herald.
“It’s disgraceful what she’s doing, based on no scientific evidence.”
He said the country was battling a pandemic and the mayor was effectively saying: “I’m more important than this. I can do what I like.”
Gotlieb said the mayor’s stance could undermine efforts to encourage “wavering” people to get vaccinated.
“I am disappointed and amazed she would actually say that. I’m saddened,” Gotlieb added. “It’s appalling stuff. How can you have a mayor saying that?”
Gotlieb said if Goudie got Covid-19, she could end up occupying an intensive care unit bed, depriving other people such as those needing surgery.
“She shouldn’t be mayor.”
Doubling down Goudie then chose to comment on the legal situation regarding vaccine mandates and said that the Covid legislation should be consistent with the Bill of Rights, presumably the section that says that people have the right to refuse medical treatment. This section is subject to section 5 which says that “the rights and freedoms contained in this Bill of Rights may be subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society”. Some form of limit in the middle of a global pandemic is appropriate. And requiring people in public facing roles to be vaccinated in my view can be demonstrably justified.
Local Government is now grappling with some form of vaccine mandate. Goudie is well and truly out on the edge on this issue.
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