Winston Peters had no time for a question from a Covid-19 denier at a New Zealand First campaign event in Tauranga today.
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The party leader was taking questions from the crowd after giving a speech when a man with an American accent rose to ask for proof that Covid-19 exists.
"Where's your evidence that there is a virus that causes the disease?" the man asked, referencing a scientific method which he believed had not yet been satisfied for Covid-19.
Peters - who had already been short with the man for attempting to ask three questions rather than one - didn't hold back in his answer.
“Sit down, sit down," he said. "We’ve got someone who obviously got an education in America - 220,000 people have died in the US, where there are eight million cases to date. We’ve got 79,000 cases just today, probably in India, and here is someone who gets up and says ‘the Earth is flat’.
“Sorry sunshine, wrong place,” Peters said to applause.
dashauskat on October 13rd, 2020 at 09:06 UTC »
Man he would have been so pumped to ask his stupid question and the deputy PM just made him feel like an idiot; and this is probably the biggest thing he will ever be known for.
SimonTheCaveman on October 13rd, 2020 at 08:14 UTC »
"Sorry Sunshine" brilliant
Jehoke on October 13rd, 2020 at 08:13 UTC »
Nicely done. What a dick! Everyone in the room is looking at him like..... what the fuck are you talking about? I wonder if these people lived in the 14th century they’d ask for proof of the plague?