
New Zealand's deputy prime minister Winston Peters has no time for Covid denial, or Flat Earthers for that matter.
At a re-election campaign meeting in Tarunga, the leader of the New Zealand First party was confronted by a conspiracy theorist with an accent that sounded very American.
The incident was captured on video, as the sceptic asked the deputy prime minister to provide evidence that “there is a virus that causes the disease.”
New Zealand: Winston Peters — deputy PM of New Zealand addresses an American COVID-19 denier at a press conferenc… https://t.co/MAbzQJ7XBI— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@Rex Chapman🏇🏼) 1602862239
Before he could even finish the question, Peters cut him off and proceeded to show him the science:
We’ve got someone who obviously got an education in America. 220,000 people have died in the United States, there are 8 million cases to date. We’ve got 79,000 cases probably today in India, and here is someone who gets up and says, “the Earth is flat.” Sorry sunshine, wrong place.
Just a reminder: New Zealand currently has zero cases. So Peters and recently re-elected Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern are obviously doing something right.
People were a fan of the deputy PM’s brutal takedown.
Can this guy run the US for like 3 months? https://t.co/NlYWj3XdMF— SumOfCharacter (@SumOfCharacter) 1603072230
“Sorry, sunshine...wrong place” may be my new catch phrase https://t.co/Q3GRIPdB7v— quiltbunny (@quiltbunny) 1602909737
New Zealand looks more and more awesome every day. https://t.co/TwJXh3BDwd— Longie🌹🐦🦺⚓️ (@Longie🌹🐦🦺⚓️) 1603068992
normalize mocking americans https://t.co/QRDovFcTfk— Carlos (@Carlos) 1603068556
Some Americans were also met with a wake-up call as to how the country is seen by the rest of the world.
"we've got someone who obviously got their education in America" jesus we are just a total laughingstock to the… https://t.co/OCLjmVJS92— Clara Jeffery (@Clara Jeffery) 1602903019
The second hand embarrassment I have every day being a citizen of the US... I just... https://t.co/Lp38ONjZHr— jubilee #endsars (@jubilee #endsars) 1602884550
It’s the “clearly got an education in America” for meeee 😭 https://t.co/3hLYBLBFK0— J (@J) 1603114949
Perhaps the lesson we can take from this is to be more like New Zealand, less like the US. Also, Winston Peters has some zingers.