The despicable Sue Grey

I've written in the past about Sue Grey, the lawyer and past candidate for The Outdoors Party. She's an out and out conspiracy theorist and her Facebook page is a magnet for the most rabid anti-vaxxers.

Yesterday she posted about the tragic death of a young woman at an Auckland secondary school, claiming (without evidence) that the death was a result of the COVID vaccination.

The post has since been taken down after it was inundated with comments critical of Grey, but it's been reported that the parents are extremely distressed by the posting, and have noted that their daughter's death was not connected with vaccination.

The contents of the post have been echoed around the world on various dodgy websites, and will likely continue to exist there.

Grey's position on COVID is that the vaccination isn't safe or effective, and that the government should just be promoting healthy lifestyles and vitamins. This is a pretty privileged position to be able to take from a country that hasn't been ravaged by the virus.

It astounds me that her Facebook account is still intact, and that she's still able to practise as a lawyer. From what I can see, this incident has raised her public profile (not in a good way) and there are plenty of people now complaining to the law society. The society doesn't exactly make it easy to raise a complaint though - this page allows you to do so, but you need to fill out a PDF then email that back to them. I suspect that that will be enough of a hurdle so that most people don't bother.