This video came out last week. Take note of the credentials of the doctor speaking. He also shares them below if you’d just like to carry on reading here. As another doctor I listen to, Dr Sam Bailley from Christchurch, NZ, said “It’s great to see people with real clout coming out”
I hope you heard the gravity of Dr Hodkinson’s emotion as he laid it bare.
This is a transcript of the video:
“Dr Roger Hodkinson: Ah Mr Chairman this is Dr Hodkinson, I want to let you know I’m standing by.
Chairman: OK. Well. We would love to hear from you. The floor is yours.
Dr Hodkinson: 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’s counter narrative and so you don’t immediately think I’m a quack, I’m going to briefly outline my credentials so that you can understand where I am 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 of Pathology in Ottawa.
But more to the point, I’m currently the Chairman of a Biotechnology Company in North Carolina, selling a Covid-19 test and 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 a very 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 grannie. 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 signalling. 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, watching 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 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.
And a word on testing. I do want to emphasise that I’m in the business of testing for Covid. I do want to emphasise 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 3-5,000 IU’s 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 provinces own statistics, the risk of death under 65 in this province, is one in three hundred thousand. 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, etc, etc, it’s simply outrageous. It’s just another bad flu and you’ve gotta 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 right down the garden path by the Chief Medical Officer of Health of this province.
I’m absolutely outraged that this has reached this level.
It should all stop tomorrow.
Thank you very much.
Chairman: Well, thank you, for that. Again, hopefully all layers of government are listening. We have the least amount of influence but we definitely appreciate everything that you just had to say.”
The clip above is an excerpt from this Edmonton Community Public Services Committee 11/13/2020 at Timestamp 8:25:48 – 8:30:48
To understand what pressures doctors in New Zealand are under to not look under the hood of Covid and to not speak up, I’d recommend this weeks Covid Plan B catch up of some brave doctors who are speaking up, despite the consequences, because they know how serious this issue is.
The only piece I’d bring into question is Dr Alison Goodwin’s comment on Lifestyle Medicine. Usually any education with the words Lifestyle Medicine in it is very focused on the plant based narrative. The plant based folk are ramping up their moves to take meat out of our diets.
When talking about improving your metabolic health to enhance our immune systems it needs to be a real food diet based on meat, fish and eggs, with limited plants depending on your metabolic health, as I talk about in my book Evolving Food Pyramids.