{"id":1819956,"date":"2023-01-23T08:04:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T13:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1819956"},"modified":"2023-01-23T08:10:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T13:10:52","slug":"new-zealands-prime-minister-is-the-first-covid-tyrant-to-fall-but-she-wont-be-the-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-zealands-prime-minister-is-the-first-covid-tyrant-to-fall-but-she-wont-be-the-last\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s Prime Minister Is The First Covid Tyrant To Fall, But She Won\u2019t Be The Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-zealands-prime-minister-is-the-first-covid-tyrant-to-fall-but-she-wont-be-the-last%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1819956&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/new-zealand-leader-jacinda-ardern-announces-shock-resignation-before-upcoming-election\/ar-AA16uEwk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> her resignation this week after being the nation\u2019s leader for six years. She cited \u201cburnout\u201d Ardern was cited as the reason. But many believe Ardern chose to exit early because she expected to face a humiliating defeat in this year\u2019s election. Many Kiwis (a nickname for New Zealanders) are fed up with her government\u2019s harsh Covid-19 restrictions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ardern was just 37 years old when she was elected prime minister. She championed leftists\u2019 favorite causes, such as climate change and so-called gender equality. Following the events of The, she achieved international fame.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-47582183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2019 Christchurch terrorist attack<\/a>In 2001, 51 people were killed in two mosques by a gunman. Ardern quickly enacted a strict gun ban, which was banned from all \u201cmilitary-style\u201d Semi-automatic guns and so called &#8220;Semi-automatic Guns&#8221; \u201cassault rifles,\u201d And established a mandatory gun \u201cbuyback\u201d program. Arden wore a hijab as a sign of respect for the Muslim community. She was a popular leftist icon and has gained a lot of admiration. Her photographs graced the covers of Vogue and Time. She was in many ways the &#8220;The&#8221; woman. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AOC<\/a> New Zealand\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ardern&#8217;s strict gun laws did not stop gun crimes, as it turned out. On the contrary, gun crimes\u00a0rose to a 10-year high after the law went into effect, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-zealand-gun-crime-hits-10-year-high-strict-gun-confiscation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> Radio New Zealand. Ardern was not the compassionate, democracy-defender she had hoped to be.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ardern was appointed in 2020 when New Zealand had 100 Covid cases. \u201cgo hard and go early\u201d approach and imposed some of the world\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nzhistory.govt.nz\/page\/new-zealand-enters-nationwide-lockdown-fight-against-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">strictest lockdowns<\/a>. In March 2020, the country became a massive prison after its borders were closed. The country was divided into families and foreigners were not allowed in. New Zealanders could only leave their homes to get groceries or supplies for medical reasons and had to stay put.<\/p>\n<p>Ardern believed her method was the best to eliminate Covid-19. Like China\u2019s dictator Xi Jinping, she declared her \u201czero Covid\u201d policy won a victory in October 2020, right before she was reelected. The nation had reported fewer Than 25 Covid-related deaths and fewer that 2,000 cases since March 2020. Ardern\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/10\/17\/asia\/new-zealand-election-2020-results-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">won<\/a>\u00a0A second term was won by a wide margin. Her reputation as a hero was high, and many pointed to her New Zealand model as an argument for lockdowns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Authoritarian Policies <\/p>\n<p>Ardern quickly reacted when the nation discovered a single Delta variant Covid case, in August 2021.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/new-zealand-to-go-into-national-lockdown-over-one-covid-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">re-imposed<\/a>\u00a0a nationwide lockdown. However, this time her \u201czero Covid\u201d It was not possible to stop the spread and spread of this highly infectious variant. The new variant\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/new-zealand-has-highest-jump-covid-19-cases-since-april-2020-2021-08-24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spread nationwide, and the number of cases rose<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Ardern issued a vaccine mandate in order to attain a national vaccination rate of 90%. Before entering any establishment, customers had to present a vaccine certificate. Any business that wanted to reopen must also have its employees vaccinated. A religious exemption was not allowed. A nation of five million people.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2021\/10\/26\/new-zealand-covid-vaccine-mandate-businesses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fewer than 100<\/a>\u00a0A medical exemption is available to qualified applicants. Also, a mask mandate was in effect. Ardern pushed for Orwellian policies and argued that she should be a mask mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authoritarians want us to forget the suffering we endured in the last three years and move on. But many people demand a Covid reckoning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":536,"featured_media":1819959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[4127,8859,6919,8521,8522,16048,4324,16047],"class_list":["post-1819956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-covid","tag-fall","tag-federalist","tag-minister","tag-prime","tag-tyrant","tag-wont","tag-zealands"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1819959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}