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Ryan Bridge: The Covid-19 inquiry - the verdict is in · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: This COVID Phase one report. The verdict is in and
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty much guilty your honor fine to begin with,
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  Speaker 1: and then they as the single Podium of truth basically
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  Speaker 1: went too far for too long, tell us something we
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Trust in our institutions is shot. Media took
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  Speaker 1: a hammering, and rightly so in some cases. Labour supporters
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  Speaker 1: and hysterical scientists and other groups went full militant. I
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  Speaker 1: never spoke about the messages I got from some of
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  Speaker 1: them during my interviews challenging Old Jacinda Adurn during that period,
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  Speaker 1: especially those outside of Auckland during the lockdown to end
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  Speaker 1: all lockdowns. They were threats of beatings on my social media,
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  Speaker 1: loads of homophobia. I was killing people with my questions.
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  Speaker 1: There was hate, there was vitriol. Now I'm not complaining
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  Speaker 1: about this, this is part of my job, but it
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  Speaker 1: just shows how wacko everyone got. Which is not to
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  Speaker 1: say the anti mandate lot were angels either, but what
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  Speaker 1: we the public were fed a meal from only one
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  Speaker 1: of the two menus. Then there was the Miaq cruelty.
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  Speaker 1: You will never get another opportunity to kiss a loved
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  Speaker 1: one goodbye never. I watched Hipkins in his media stand
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  Speaker 1: up yesterday with the usual half mere culpa lines, we
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  Speaker 1: can learn lessons from this in the future, and the
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  Speaker 1: benefit of hindsight is a great thing. What's the problem
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  Speaker 1: with that? Well, there were plenty of people with plenty
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  Speaker 1: of advice at the time he could have listened to,
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  Speaker 1: but chose not to. Instead, they labeled the protest as
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  Speaker 1: a river of filth. We wrote off entire sectors of
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  Speaker 1: scientific community in the name of social cohesion, like a
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  Speaker 1: pack of rabid dogs attacking a limp lamb. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we were. We turned into that. Had they listened to Auckland,
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  Speaker 1: to the planned Bears, some economists and experts in other fields,
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  Speaker 1: to Lady Deborah Chambers, who bravely put her head above
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  Speaker 1: the parapet on behalf of the legal fraternity. Simon Bridges
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  Speaker 1: basically lost his job over a Facebook post pointing out
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  Speaker 1: many of the problems that turned out to be quite accurate.
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  Speaker 1: But now it was all Susie Wiles and co. Crying
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  Speaker 1: because we didn't go further and go harder. And where
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  Speaker 1: are we now? Kids not going to school, productivity jabbed
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  Speaker 1: in the face, crime out of controlled mental health and anxiety,
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  Speaker 1: particularly for kids also taking a head to the face,
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  Speaker 1: the weightless for critical medical treatments delayed, construction stopped, projects delayed,
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  Speaker 1: despite the Aussies being faster and looser on both counts.
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  Speaker 1: It was the biggest overreach of power, both in real
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  Speaker 1: terms and in some cases legally this country's potentially ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: And only now do they say we might reconsider forcing
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  Speaker 1: a barista to get a jab that they don't want.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, I got the jab twice, but
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  Speaker 1: that was my choice to a large extent. And is
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  Speaker 1: this all Labour's fault. No. The bigger culprits, in my mind,
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  Speaker 1: media hype, social media pylons, and unwavering support for the
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  Speaker 1: party pushing that lockdown agenda. The problem was tunnel vision.
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  Speaker 1: It was arrogance, ignorance or both, and now we're all
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  Speaker 1: paying a very hefty price tag for it. There was
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  Speaker 1: just one thing missing from yesterday, any response from the
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  Speaker 1: four horsemen of the apocalypse, Grant, Jacinda Ashley and Adrian Orr.
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  Speaker 1: Where were they? Grant's on eight hundred thousand dollars at
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  Speaker 1: Otaga University alls doing victory lapse for cutting rates he
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  Speaker 1: hiked too high and then flooding the country with cash
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  Speaker 1: and Adirn. Remember she said her single biggest driver in
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  Speaker 1: politics was to fix child poverty. Now living in New
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  Speaker 1: York while the cost of living crisis, she helped engineer
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  Speaker 1: then deny was existing hammers some of our poorest and
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  Speaker 1: to use a word they made famous during the COVID catastrophe,
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  Speaker 1: our most vulnerable. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,
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