Dear Chris Hipkins,

I have a few questions regarding your roll out of new vaccination mandates, as I am sure the government will add more and more industries to this mandate.

1) Why was the government including yourself, and Jacinda Ardern so adamant that there would be no vaccination mandates, to then, contradict the words of reassurance that was spoken months earlier. This seems to be a reoccurring pattern and it creates a lot of trust issues from the public with the government. How can we believe any of the words of today, when they are not honoured tomorrow?

2) From my understanding, and from another FYI request I have found the pfizer covid19 vaccine was never designed to prevent people catching covid19, or spread it. The pfizer covid 19 vaccine only reduces the symptoms and the harm to the patient who has become infected. So my question is why when NZ reaches the 90% vaccination target and we enter the traffic light system why will unvaccinated customers be refused entry when the only person who is in danger are themselves?

3) Why is there no other options for unvaccinated people to enable them to participate in events and enter venues, ie a test within a certain time frame to show they are negative

4) If clogging up the health system is the next concern why had preparations not been put in place over the past 18 months. We all knew the elimination strategy was never going to work long term, with cases world wide booming without closing NZ forever. The reality is we will all get covid 19 during our life time. Over $1b has been spent on the MIQ system, half of that could have built a dedicated covid19 clinic, paid for the extra intensive care beds, and imported or trained up more doctors / nurses.

5) Why do we not have a choice on what vaccine we can receive like the rest of the world?

6) Does the government think that it ethical or acceptable to carry out business with a criminal entity such as pfizer? As they have previously been charged with bribing doctors and suppressing adverse trial results?

Yours faithfully,

Ben