{"id":41968,"date":"2022-02-25T13:38:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T04:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/feb\/25\/end-new-zealands-covid-mandates-too-quickly-and-the-mistake-could-be-measured-in-funerals"},"modified":"2022-02-25T13:38:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T04:38:02","slug":"end-new-zealands-covid-mandates-too-quickly-and-the-mistake-could-be-measured-in-funerals-andrew-geddis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41968","title":{"rendered":"End New Zealand\u2019s Covid mandates too quickly and the mistake could be measured in funerals | Andrew Geddis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s appropriate to question restrictions, but those who want to lift them all immediately won\u2019t be responsible for the consequences<\/p>\n<p>If the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/09\/lets-remember-why-we-are-here-new-zealand-anti-vax-protest-splinters-into-jibes-and-jabs\">protesters in front of New Zealand\u2019s parliament<\/a> have anything in common, it is a self-professed opposition to \u201cCovid vaccination mandates\u201d. These, they say, are an unacceptable burden on the individual rights of those who choose not to be vaccinated and so must be abolished immediately.<\/p>\n<p>These protesters are correct about one thing. Although the various mandates, which mean around 40% of New Zealand\u2019s workforce face losing their jobs if not vaccinated, are not strictly compulsory in the sense of making it an offence to not be jabbed, they do limit individual rights. Specifically, the right to refuse to undergo any medical treatment, as guaranteed by section 11 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/feb\/25\/end-new-zealands-covid-mandates-too-quickly-and-the-mistake-could-be-measured-in-funerals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s appropriate to question restrictions, but those who want to lift them all immediately won\u2019t be responsible for the consequencesIf the protesters in front of New Zealand\u2019s parliament have anything in common, it is a self-professed opposition to \u201cCo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41969,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41968\/revisions\/41969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}