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Green Party co-leader James Shaw has called the claims of a Fox News commentator in the United States that New Zealand was running “quarantine camps” for those with coronavirus “complete nonsense.”
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Host Laura Ingraham made some startling claims about NZ’s Covid response, and the Greens’ co-leader wasn’t buying it. Source: 1 NEWS
Laura Ingraham was hosting academic Victor Davis Hanson from the conservative think tank Hoover Institution when the two suggested that the New Zealand government quarantine and administered isolation rules were “quarantine camps” and that the country was discarding “personal freedom. “.
“They have a nation of five million people,” Hanson told Ingraham.
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Laura Ingraham used a video from months ago of Jacinda Ardern speaking about the quarantine for arrivals to the country during her tirade. Source: Fox News
“They’ve only lost, tragically, but they lost 25 people. It’s a staggeringly low number to waste personal freedom.”
Before Hanson appeared, Ingraham said New Zealand was “throwing people into quarantine camps.”
He then played a live Facebook video of Jacinda Ardern, speaking about controlled isolation and quarantine.
However, Ardern was actually talking about those returning to New Zealand and what would happen if they refused a Covid-19 test.
“If someone in our facility refuses to be tested, they have to keep staying,” Ardern said.
“Don’t leave camp until you’re negative,” Ingraham said, seeming to mock Ardern’s accent.
Shaw was asked about the comments after coming out of another day of negotiations with the Labor Party, as the Greens jostle for a role in the next government, despite Labor holding the majority.
“Complete nonsense,” he said.
“That is something that has been fanned by Fox News, which doesn’t really justify the phrase ‘media outlet.’
