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 and so… so you that you can understand where I am coming from in terms of knowledge. Base in all of this I am a medical specialist in pathology which includes virology. I am the ex-president of the pathology section of the medical association, I was previously an assistant professor in the faculty of the medicine doing a lot of teaching. I was the chairman of the royal college of physicians of Canada Examination Committee in Pathology on Ottawa, but more to point, I am currently the chairman of a biotechnology company in North Carolina selling a COVID 19 test, and I might, you might say, I know a little bit about all this. The button line is simply this, there is hysteria driven by the media and politicians. It is 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 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. There is no action of any kind needed other than what happened last year when we got , I 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.
Masks are utterly useless, there is no evidence base for their effectiveness whatsoever, Paper masks and fabric masks are simply virtue signaling… they are not even worn effectively most of the time, it is utterly ridiculous seeing these unfortunate, uneducated people, and not saying that in purchaser's 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 travel 30 meters or so before landing. Enclosure have had such terrible unintended consequences; they should be open tomorrow 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 am 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 is simply driving public hysteria, and all testing should stop unless 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 three to five thousand international unites 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 1 in 300000, you have got grip on this.
The scale of response that you have undertaking with no evidence for it is utterly ridiculous giving the consequences of acting in a way that you are proposing. All kinds of suicides, business closures, funerals, weddings, Etc.…. Etc.… it is simply outrageous. 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 by down the garden path by the chief medical officer of health for this province (Alberta).
I am absolutely outraged that this has reached this level. It should all stop tomorrow. Thank you very much.
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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.
