Former Chairman of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons committee on COVID: "This is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public"

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Wed, 18 Nov 2020 00:01 UTC

Dr. Roger Hodkinson, former Chairman of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons committee in Ottawa.

Dr. Roger Hodkinson is the former Chairman of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons committee in Ottawa, he was once CEO of a large private medical laboratory in Edmonton, Alberta, and for the past 20 years has held the position as Chairman of a Medical Biotechnology company based in North Carolina currently tasked with selling a COVID-19 test. He is a medical specialist in pathology, which includes virology, who trained at Cambridge University in the UK — he is perfectly positioned to speak on this topic.

In a recent Edmonton City Council Community and Public Services Committee meeting (the audio from which is currently gaining traction on YouTube), Dr. Hodkinson says: "The bottom line is there is utterly unfounded public hysteria driven by the media and politicians. It's outrageous. This is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public.

"[COVID-19] is nothing more than a bad flu season. This is not Ebola. It's not SARS. It's politics playing medicine, and that's a very dangerous game."

Hodkinson goes on to stress that no action of any kind is needed, other than what happened during last year's flu season: "If we felt ill, we stayed home, we took chicken noodle soup, we didn't visit granny, we decided when we would return to work; we didn't need anyone to tell us."

"Mask are utterly useless"

"There is no evidence base for their effectiveness whatsoever.

"[Masks] are simply virtue signalling.

"Seeing these people walking around like lemmings obeying, without any knowledge base, to put the mask on their face."

"Social Distancing is also useless"

"COVID is spread by aerosols, which travel 30 meters-or-so before landing."

"Closures of schools and businesses have had such terrible consequences"

"Everywhere should be open tomorrow, as was stated in the Great Barrington Declaration.

"Positive test results do not mean a clinical infection"

"All testing should stop, unless you're presenting to hospital with some respiratory problem ... it's driving public hysteria, and all testing should stop.

"All that should be done is to protect the vulnerable.

"And I would remind you all that using the provinces [Alberta's] own statistics, the risk of death under 65 is 1 in 300,000. You've got to get a grip on this. The scale of the response ... with no evidence for it, is utterly ridiculous.

"Suicides, business closures, [cancelled] funerals, weddings, etc., etc. — it's simply outrageous, it's just another bad flu, and [people] have got to get their minds around that."

Hodkison concludes with some advice for policy makers in Alberta: "Let people make their own decisions. You should be totally out of the business of medicine. You're being led down the garden path by the chief medical officer of health in this province. I'm absolutely outraged that this has reached this level. It should all stop tomorrow. Thank you very much."

Comment: The video:

Also here.

Here's the full transcript from Celia Farber:

Thank you very much. I do appreciate the opportunity to address you on this very important matter. What I'm going to say is lay language, and blunt. It is counter-narrative, and so you don't immediately think I'm a quack I'm going to to briefly outline my credentials so that you can understand where I'm coming from in terms of knowledge base in all of this.

I'm a medical specialist in pathology which includes virology. I trained at Cambridge University in the UK. I'm the ex-president of the pathology section of the Medical Association. I was previously an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine doing a lot of teaching. I was The Chairman of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada Examination Committee and Pathology in Ottawa but more to the point I'm currently the chairman of a bio technology company in North Carolina selling the COVID-19 test.

And [inaudible] you might say I know a little bit about all of this. The bottom line is simply this:

There is utterly unfounded public hysteria driven by the media and politicians. It's outrageous. This is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public. There is absolutely nothing that can be done to contain this virus. Other than protecting older, more vulnerable people. It should be thought of as nothing more than a bad flu season.

This is not Ebola. It's not SARS. It's politics playing medicine and that's avery dangerous game. 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 need anyone to tell us.

Masks are utterly useless. There is no evidence base for their effectiveness whatsoever. Paper masks and fabric masks are simply virtue signaling. They're not even worn effectively most of the time. It's utterly ridiculous. Seeing these unfortunate, uneducated people- I'm not saying that in a pejorative sense-seeing these people walking around like lemmings, obeying without any knowledge base, to put the mask on their face.

Social distancing is also useless because Covid is spread by aerosols which travels 30 meters or so before landing. Enclosures have had such terrible unintended consequences. Everywhere should be opened tomorrow as well as was stated in the Great Barrington declaration that I circulated prior to this meeting.

And a word on testing: I do want to emphasize that 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're presenting to hospital with some respiratory problem.

All that should be done is to protect the vulnerable and to give them all in the nursing homes that are under your control, give them all 3000 to 5000 international units of vitamin D every day which has been shown to radically reduce the likelihood of Infection.

And I would remind you all that using the province's own statistics, the risk of death under 65 in this province is one in 300,000. One 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're proposing. All kinds of suicides, business closures, funerals, weddings etc. it's simply outrageous!

It's just another bad flu and you've got to get your minds around that. Let people make their own decisions. You should be totally out of the business of medicine. You're being led down the garden path by the chief medical officer of health for this province. I am absolutely outraged that this is reached this level. It should all stop tomorrow. Thank you very much.