It's so easy for people like Hipkins to bandy about baseless claims.. and the media are only too happy to print them without any attempt to ascertain the truth or both sides of the story. 🤷♀️ All we get is labels, accusations, and derision.🏷️
He asserts that the entire 44% of the jab-free port workers are somehow more susceptible to the uptake of "misinformation". Really?
Surely it is clear that such bold statements are deliberately designed to discredit this community and to encourage public pressure and scorn in their direction.
"They're stupid..They're not safe..They're putting everyone in danger with their misinformed, selfish ideas.." Those are the ideas we are meant to mindlessly accept.
But what if these people have done their reading? What if they've got very good reasons for declining the shots?
Their power comes from being a large, united group with the ability to seriously disrupt trade and the authorities know that.
All power to them, we say! Their right to decline is enshrined in NZ law.