When protestors returned to parliament in August 2022, Hannah said in a media interview that it had moved beyond COVID-19 and was more about getting unification around the idea of what New Zealand is and what it should be like. Protestors, she claimed, were being influenced by rhetoric from the protest leaders making false claims that "politicians, officials, journalists, academics and members of the healthcare system are responsible for what they describe as mass genocide or democide, which means the killing of a population by its government".
