Hipkins Agreed with Hatchard on Excess Deaths—But Misled Us on the Cause.

Rewind to 2022/23: Guy Hatchard was raising the alarm, tying the spike in excess deaths to the rollout of the Pfizer shot. Meanwhile, figures like Ashley Bloomfield and David Seymour brushed it off, claiming not only that New Zealand HADN'T EVEN SEEN any excess deaths, but that deaths were actually BELOW NORMAL.

Well today, I was listening to a recording of Chris Hipkins speaking with Ryan Bridge in April 2022, fumbling through an explanation of how ‘Covid deaths’ are classified. In that conversation, Hipkins admitted excess deaths were DEFINITELY HAPPENING, though he tried to pin them on Covid.

A month later, Guy Hatchard crunched the numbers, showing not just the scale of those excess deaths, but also making a compelling case that the Covid shot—not Covid—was the likely culprit.

Then a year later, in May 2023, Seymour claimed excess deaths were “still in negative territory,” despite them being well above average by that point.