November 3 2021 PM Jacinda Ardern on vaccine mandates as protesters gather outside vaccination centre in Whanganui. Video / Bevan ConleyA public health expert is warning about the potential pitfalls of vaccine mandates as the final date for education and health workers to receive their first Pfizer jab looms. Workers at the border and in MIQ settings are already required to be fully vaccinated. "Come Monday I know of real teachers, real GPs, real mid-wives, real physios, real people without jobs," he said in a social media post yesterday. These people were not "lunatic fringe anti-vaxxers" but "people often making their own rational decision", Schofield, who is fully vaccinated, said.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 12, 2021 19:04 UTC