“UNFOUNDED PUBLIC HYSTERIA”

On 13 November, Dr. Roger Hodkinson, who was certified in medicine by the Royal College of Physicians of Canada in 1976, was a prominent speaker at the Edmonton City Council meeting regarding the city’s extension of its face-mask orders. 
Dr. Hodkinson began his speech by stating his credentials:
“I’m a medical specialist in pathology which includes virology. I trained at Cambridge University in the UK. I was previously an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine doing a lot of teaching. But more to the point I’m currently the chairman of a biotechnology company in North Carolina selling the COVID-19 test.”
His opening remarks regarding the ongoing lockdown strategies included:
“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.”
Among the key points made by Dr. Hodkinson:

• “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 mean a clinical infection. It’s simply driving public hysteria and all testing should stop. Unless you’re presenting to the hospital with some respiratory problem.”

• “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 travel 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.”

• “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 3,000 to 5,000 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.”

Dr. Hodkinson concluded by telling the public officials at the meeting: 
“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… It’s simply outrageous.”
TRENDPOST: Again, and again, over and over, just as we have detailed in the Trends Journal over the decades how the mainstream media only presents “guests” that support the establishment lies and propaganda, i.e., “Saddam Hussain has weapons of mass destruction,” when they are selling wars, so, too, with the COVID War. 
Those providing counter-evidence are ignored, banned, and/or belittled by the Presstitutes who get paid to put out what their corporate pimps and government whoremasters tell them to.
Despite the vast array of data that does not support the draconian lockdown mandates that have, and continue to, destroy millions of businesses, lives, and livelihoods, the media and the vast majority of politicians continue to promote the “patriotism” of fighting the COVID War, as Joe Biden has. (See our article in this issue, “BIDEN SAYS IT’S “PATRIOTIC” TO WEAR MASK & PLAYS COVID WAR CARD.”)