Dr. Roger Hodkinson says the virus is no worse than a “bad flu”, that masks are “useless”, and that lockdowns are driving suicides. | Western Standard:
November 17, 2020 - "A top Edmonton doctor in virology says Albertans 'are being led down the garden path” by government health officials in their efforts to stop the COVID-19 virus. Dr. Roger Hodkinson says the virus is no worse than a 'bad flu.'
"Hodkinson is the CEO of Western Medical Assessments, and has been the company’s medical director for over 20 years. He received his general medical degrees from Cambridge University in the U.K., and then became a Royal College certified pathologist in Canada (FRCPC) following a residency in Vancouver. He also taught at the University of Alberta and runs MutantDx, a molecular diagnostics company in North Carolina.
"'What I am going to say is lay language and blunt,' Hodkinson said during an Edmonton City Council Community and Public Services Committee meeting, audio of which is currently making the rounds on YouTube. 'There is utterly unfounded public hysteria driven by the media and politicians. It’s outrageous. This is the greatest hoax every perpetrated on an unsuspecting public.
"'There is absolutely nothing to be done to contain this virus other than protecting your more vulnerable people.... This is not Ebola. It’s not SARS. It’s politics playing medicine. And that’s a very dangerous game. Masks are utterly useless. There is no evidence based on their effectiveness whatsoever. Seeing these people walking around like lemmings obeying without any knowledge…putting the masks on.'
"Hodkinson said social distancing is also 'useless' because the virus can travel up to 30 m before landing. He said positive tests, which do not accurately reflect whether you have the virus, are driving 'public hysteria,' adding testing should stop unless you show up at a hospital with respiratory problems. He called for residents of long term care homes to be given daily doses of Vitamin D which can help battle the virus.
"Hodkinson said the risk of death from COVID-19 to Albertans under 65 is 1 in 300,000. He also blamed businesses closures for a spate of suicides and other social problems.
"'It’s just another bad flu, and you have to get your minds around that. You’re being led down the garden path by the chief medical officer of health (Dr. Deena Hinshaw) in this province.,' he said. 'I am absolutely outraged that it has reached this level.'"
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We need more people like this to call this out
ReplyDeleteI've received two posts of the transcript of Dr. Hodkinson's remarks:
ReplyDeleteThis is (a) transcript of the Edmonton City Council virtual meeting held on Nov. 13, 2020 regarding the City’s proposal to mandate masks until May 2021.
This is the transcript of Dr. Roger Hodkinson’s professional opinion.
00:26 “The floor is yours.” City Councillor, Aaron Paquette, Chair of the Committee.
Dr. Hodkinson:
00:29 “Thank you very much. I do appreciate the opportunity to address you on this very important matter. What I am going to say is lay language and blunt. It is counter narrative.
So you do not immediately think I am a quack, I am going to outline my credentials so you can understand where I’m coming from in terms of a knowledge base in all of this.
-I am a medical specialist in Pathology which includes virology.
-I trained at Cambridge University, UK
-I am the ex-president of the Pathology Section of the Medical Association
-I was previously an Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, doing a lot of teaching
-I was the Chairman of the Board of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Examination Committee in Pathology in Ottawa
-More to the point, I am currently, the Chairman of a Biotechnology Company in North Carolina, selling the Covid-19 test. You might say, I know a little bit about all this.
01:28 The bottom line is simply this, there is utterly unfounded public hysteria driven by the media and politicians. It is outrageous. This is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public.
01:43 There is absolutely nothing that can be done to contain this virus, other than protecting more vulnerable people. It should be thought of nothing more than a bad flu season. This is not Ebola. It is not SARS. It is politics playing medicine, and that is a very dangerous game.
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ReplyDelete02:06 There is no action of any kind needed other than what happened last year when we felt unwell. We stayed home, we took chicken noodle soup, we didn’t visit Granny, and WE decided when WE would return to work. We didn’t have anyone, need anyone, to tell us.
02:23 Masks are utterly useless. There is no evidence base for their effectiveness whatsoever. Paper masks and fabric masks are simply virtue signalling. They are not even worn effectively most of the time. It is utterly ridiculous.
02:40 Seeing these unfortunate, uneducated people (I’m not saying that in a perjurious sense), seeing these people walking around like lemmings obeying without any knowledge base to put the mask on their face.
02:54 Social distancing is also useless because Covid is spread by aerosols which travel 30 metres or so before landing. And closures have had such terrible unintended consequences. Everywhere should be open tomorrow, as was stated in the Great Barrington Declaration that I circulated prior to this meeting.
03:18 And a word on testing, I do want to emphasize, I’m in the business of testing for Covid. I do want to emphasize, that positive test results, DO NOT, underlined in neon, mean a clinical infection. It’s simply driving public hysteria and all testing should STOP unless you are presenting to hospital with some respiratory problem.
03:42 All that should be done, is to protect the vulnerable and to give them all in the nursing homes that are under your control, 3000-5000 international units of Vitamin D everyday, which has shown to radically reduce the likelihood of infection.
03:58 I would remind you all using the Province’s own statistics, the risk of death under 65, in this province, is 1 in 300,000...1 in 300,000. You’ve got to get a grip on this. The scale of the response that you are undertaking with no evidence for it, is utterly ridiculous given the consequences of acting in a way that you are proposing. All kinds of suicides, business closures, funerals, weddings, etcetera, etcetera. It is simply outrageous.
04:38 It is just another bad flu. And you have got to get your minds around that. Let people make their own decisions. You should be totally out of the business of medicine. You are being led down the garden path by the Chief Medical Officer of Health of this province.
04:55 I am absolutely outraged that this has reached this level. It should all stop tomorrow. Thank you very much.”'
Transcript excerpt by Leandra Loewen from a screen recording, Nov. 13, 2020, Edmonton City Council
The transcript is even more in order now, since YouTube has deleted the video.
ReplyDeleteFor the first time, I tried embedding a bitchute video, using YouTube Player, and it worked perfectly. Meaning the video (which is really only the audio) is back. Enjoy!
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