The following is an excerpt from Dr. Roger Hodkinson M.D. speaking to City Hall in Edmonton on November 13th 2020.

“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’m coming from in terms of knowledge base in all this.

I’m a medical specialist in pathology which includes virology. I trained at Cambridge university in the U.K.. 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 in pathology, in Ottawa. But more to the point, I’m currently the chairman of a bio-technology in North Carolina selling a covid-19 test, and you might say I know a little bit about all this.

The bottom line is simply this; there is utterly unfounded hysteria driven by the media and politicians. It’s outrageous. This is the greatest hoax ever perpetuated on an unsuspecting public.

There is absolutely nothing that can be done to contain this virus, other than protecting 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 got ourselves 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, (in a community setting). 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), 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 aerosol which travels 30 metres or so before landing.

Closures have had such terrible, unintended consequences. Everywhere should be open tomorrow as was stated in the Great Barrington Declaration (gbdeclaration.org) that I circulated prior to this meeting.

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’re presenting to hospital with a 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, 3 – 5000 IU 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 300,000. 1 in 300,000! You’ve got to get a grip on this. The scale of 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., 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’m absolutely outraged that this has reached this level. It should all stop tomorrow.”

— Dr. Roger Hodkinson M.D.