Taken at face-value, what appears to have inspired the latest protest on Parliament grounds is the word “mandate”. They picked up the barriers they’d knocked over, they asked the journalists for their tennis balls back. But this was not the week to wave a Samoan flag in solidarity with anti-vaccination. Ross Giblin/Stuff James Nokise: “... this was not the week to wave a Samoan flag in solidarity with anti-vaccination.”As a result, over 20 per cent of Samoa’s population died. Many of those who survived the 1918 pandemic became the forebears of the Samoan diaspora in New Zealand and Australia.

Source: Stuff November 11, 2021 22:00 UTC