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Former celebrity chef Pete Evans has taunted Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Instagram about blocking the new virus, urging people to vote against it and alluding to a conspiracy “agenda.”
The post, criticized for its “bullying” tone, was mostly praised by followers who flooded Evans’ Instagram page with wild theories that Ardern put the country “under martial law.”
Evans published the news.com.au story posted after Ardern’s announcement Tuesday night about the new coronavirus cases, titled “Four New Zealand Virus Cases.”
Along with him, he wrote: “If you want to see how the agenda unfolds. Keep an eye on NZ in the coming months. Vote for freedom in the next election.”
He added a link to @nzpp_official, the Instagram page of the New Zealand Public Party, an anti-blockade political party with the slogan “It’s time to take New Zealand back for the people.”
New Zealand will go to the polls on September 19.
Immediately below Evans’s post, a person criticized him, writing “Pete come on buddy I always liked you very much and what you believe in … Please don’t turn this into harassment. The message you are spreading is better than that. “. . “
But despite some other posts critical of him, Evans, a torrent of posts on his page claim New Zealand will be put under military rule and Ardern will deploy the military to enforce virus testing.
A poster claims that the NZDF (the New Zealand Defense Force) and the government had “met to launch a total blockade” in October.
The message stated that “the NZDF will take over (as in martial law) on October 1 all hospitals, quarantine bases and airports.”
“They will assign their troops to the regions to enforce mandatory testing with domestic testers,” he said.
Claiming to have leaked information from an army lieutenant who had “cried” while telling him the fact that the troops were training “using the same attack plan that he used in Timor” and “they told him they had to use brute force and any necessary force. “
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“The training for the next two weeks will address protests, riots and a significant loss of jobs in New Zealand.”
The poster said that he had told the soldier “that if everyone told him no to Hitler millions of lives would be saved” and that “after tonight’s announcement (sic) it is already happening just as it happened in the ghettos during the Second War. World”.
Another poster claimed that Bill Gates had visited New Zealand and met with Ardern, who would enforce the rights of police to enter people’s homes without a warrant, warning: “By the time people wake up and connect everything , it will really be too late. “
One of the few critics of Evans’ post on his page wrote: “Chef Pete has lived (sic) and admired you and everything you stand for, for years, in particular your philosophy of food.
“But I’m not sure why he’s becoming obsessed with this Covid outbreak and conspiracy theories.
“Why, as a highly respected chef, would you enter this space?”
Evans, who was once a famous judge on the television show My Kitchen Rules, has been criticized more recently for promoting strange beliefs around Covid-19.
In April, the Therapeutic Products Administration (TGA) fined him more than $ 25,000 for the magical coronavirus eradication properties he claimed about a “Bio Charger” device in a Facebook Lifestream promotion.
