There's nothing "revisionist" in what I've posted. I've attempted to describe what many Kiwis living in New Zealand felt at the time about the Government's handling of the pandemic from 2021. Of course, the perception from overseas may have been different, which might explain why Jacinda Ardern now has more credibility abroad than she does domestically.
Anyway, don't take my word for it, here is an excerpt from an article posted just a couple of days ago:-
Listener writer Danyl Mclauchlan also cites Covid and failure to deliver on promises: "Hipkins was indirectly responsible for much of his party's decline. He was minister for Covid, and the early phase was a triumph that voters rewarded in 2020. But 2021 saw one of the slowest vaccine rollouts in the OECD after the government failed to negotiate purchase agreements with pharmaceutical companies. The lack of vaccine coverage led to the sustained Auckland lockdown of late 2021, a policy failure that the nation's largest city has punished them for by delivering a number of Labour's safest seats to National. Mt Roskill and New Lynn have fallen, Mt Albert and Te Atatū look set to fall. Hipkins was also minister for health, education, police and public service: all areas in which his government's legacy is questionable at best."
The full article can be found here if you're interested, but it only echoes much of what was said in the Bryce Edwards article I referenced earlier in the week. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/election-2023/500390/the-left-s-postmortem-on-labour-s-defeat