Tax cuts or more/better government services

[Wainuiguy]

That death count is total conjecture and you know it.

That was an early projection that I hadn't bothered revisiting. It appears the lives saved in NZ over the course of the pandemic was nearer a quarter of that number, still to a large part thanks to the effectiveness of the lock-down, social distancing, masking and vaccinations measures implemented by the government which were widely panned by the opposition parties on (now discounted) economic grounds.

From this: https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/fellows-...-covid-19/

"In New Zealand, at least 2,300 FEWER people have died than expected “under normal circumstances” over the course of the pandemic! .....

......That is in addition to 10,000+ deaths averted because we went hard, and few cases of “long COVID”, in which people suffer long term ill-health."

Total bullshit.  National had they been in power would have likely followed the same pandemic plan Labour did.