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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-446/
- Published: 2021-10-14T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-15T09:47:38.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: COVID-19, Featured, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:31

![Thames-Coromandel District Mayor Sandra Goudie says getting the vaccine or not is a personal choice, and people should respect each other's opinions. Photo / Alison Smith](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/resizer/ODwuJZvPHDIRdKuCnmG2DQAh44c=/1440x1920/smart/filters:quality(70)/cloudfront-ap-southeast-2.images.arcpublishing.com/nzme/smobp36het3bhqoegcpx4cixey.jpg)

Thames-Coromandel District Mayor Sandra Goudie says getting the vaccine or not is a personal choice, and people should respect each other’s opinions. Photo / Alison Smith

> Mayor **Sandra Goudie** said her vaccine decisions were a matter of personal choice, and people should respect each other’s opinions.  
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> Goudie told a local newspaper she favoured Novavax, a vaccine which is yet to be approved for use in New Zealand.  
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> \[…\] “I’m not about to start to debate my choices with anybody. I don’t have to,” she told the Herald   
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> “\[…\] She said Covid-19 legislation should be consistent with the Bill of Rights.  
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> “What happened with people having the freedom to make their own choices and not be prejudiced against, as a result? Where is it that people have lost respect for each other?” she added.  
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> “What’s happened to the integrity of people, and respect for others?”  
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> \[…\] I certainly don’t believe in mandating. And I don’t believe in people losing their jobs, which is what’s happening right now because of their personal choices,” she said.  
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> NZ Herald

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> Thames-Coromandel Mayor Sandra Goudie has doubled down on her anti-Pfizer jab stance – adding she believes it is “absolutely wrong” that some people should be mandated to have the vaccine.  
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> \[…\]Goudie told Tim Beveridge on Newstalk ZB this morning she wouldn’t be taking part in Saturday’s vaxathon and that she had made her stance clear.  
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> “I’m not taking the Pfizer vaccine, that I will wait for the Novavax because I have that personal choice and everybody has that personal choice.”  
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> She said it shouldn’t be mandated and people shouldn’t have to lose their jobs.  
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> “I think that’s absolutely wrong.”

![Thames-Coromandel District Mayor Sandra Goudie says she won't get the Pfizer vaccine.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/resizer/gPCC3CVR6lP0FyvEP3hurTgldeQ=/1440x1080/smart/filters:quality(70)/cloudfront-ap-southeast-2.images.arcpublishing.com/nzme/5emdnz6sbu6iccprix646ure7e.jpg)

Thames-Coromandel District Mayor Sandra Goudie says she won’t get the Pfizer vaccine.

> \[…\] … **I’m not going to vilify people for their choices.”**  
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> “It’s getting to the point when you wonder whether you’re going to start having to wear a star on the front of your clothing,” she added,   
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> NZ Herald

Read the articles in full [here](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-delta-outbreak-thames-coromandel-mayor-sandra-goudie-on-why-she-refuses-the-pfizer-vaccine/5DOSACAEAU4IA4V6HQFCBDE7QI/?ref=goodoil.news) and[ here.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-delta-outbreak-thames-coromandel-mayors-vaccine-remarks-appalling-stuff-councillor-says/IMOGJJ3QGPMTX6KPHG4TXLKWHU/?ref=goodoil.news) Comment on it on *The BFD.*