From ONE News

Green MP Efeso Collins, 49, has died after collapsing at a charity event this morning.

Emergency services rushed to treat the first-term MP after he collapsed.

He was participating in a charity event for ChildFund in Auckland’s Britomart when the incident occurred.

Staff at the scene were visibly emotional and crying as medical work appeared to stop on Collins.

An organiser told 1News he had died.

The event, featuring high-profile Kiwis including Hilary Barry and MC Matty McLean, aimed to raise awareness and money “to bring safe, clean drinking water to children in the Pacific.”

Not having followed the fortunes of Collins whilst being busy with other issues. I’ve only just read that he was Samoan but did know he had gravitated from Labour to the Greens.

The immediate question though is, why another younger man has just dropped dead? It’s becoming all too common these days and although it isn’t men alone it appears to be more males than females.

The question will be asked: Was he vaccinated?

The issue is more hotly debated across the Tasman than in New Zealand. That is obviously because Australia doesn’t have the same relationship with New Zealand that Pfizer does.

This has been visible again this week in social media and this sudden death is undoubtedly not the blunt instrument the campaign was hoping for but it was a deliberate campaign that appeared to be competing against the Australian narrative if not other media.

In that respect I think it’s a relevant, fair and reasonable question to ask: one our politicians need to address now (whether they wanted to or not) as the issue has surfaced within parliament and with one of their own which has been the basis of much of the pandemic decision making.

ACT and NZ First went as far this week as a voice for a new pandemic inquiry in the face of the Court of Appeal mandate decision last Friday.

That hasn’t been in the news very much and I watched with intetest as it was actively censored out of at least one Facebook group.

Perhaps this is another reality within our New Normal we need to accept.