Face of the Day

Mayor Sandra Goudie said her vaccine decisions were a matter of personal choice, and people should respect each other’s opinions.

Goudie told a local newspaper she favoured Novavax, a vaccine which is yet to be approved for use in New Zealand.

[…] “I’m not about to start to debate my choices with anybody. I don’t have to,” she told the Herald

“[…] She said Covid-19 legislation should be consistent with the Bill of Rights.

“What happened with people having the freedom to make their own choices and not be prejudiced against, as a result? Where is it that people have lost respect for each other?” she added.

“What’s happened to the integrity of people, and respect for others?”

[…] I certainly don’t believe in mandating. And I don’t believe in people losing their jobs, which is what’s happening right now because of their personal choices,” she said.

NZ Herald

Thames-Coromandel Mayor Sandra Goudie has doubled down on her anti-Pfizer jab stance – adding she believes it is “absolutely wrong” that some people should be mandated to have the vaccine.

[…]Goudie told Tim Beveridge on Newstalk ZB this morning she wouldn’t be taking part in Saturday’s vaxathon and that she had made her stance clear.

“I’m not taking the Pfizer vaccine, that I will wait for the Novavax because I have that personal choice and everybody has that personal choice.”

She said it shouldn’t be mandated and people shouldn’t have to lose their jobs.

“I think that’s absolutely wrong.”

[…] … I’m not going to vilify people for their choices.”

“It’s getting to the point when you wonder whether you’re going to start having to wear a star on the front of your clothing,” she added,

NZ Herald

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