CEO & Medical Director, Dr. Roger Hodkinson, MA, MB, FRCPC, FCAP speaks out at a Zoom Presentation to Edmonton City Council Community and Public Services Committee on November 13, 2020:
“What I am going to say is lay language and blunt: 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 Granny and we decided when we would return to work. We didn’t have anyone, needn’t 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, 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 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 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 three to five thousand International Units of vitamin D every day which is been shown to radically reduce the likelihood of infection. And I would remind you all that, using the province’s own statistics (Alberta), 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’re 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 etcetera, etcetera, 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.”
— Dr Roger Hodkinson, MA, MB, FRCPC, FCAP
Dr Hodkinson is the CEO of Western Medical Assessments, and has been the Company’s Medical Director for over 20 years. He received his general medical degrees from Cambridge University in the UK, and then became a Royal College certified pathologist in Canada (FRCPC) following a residency in Vancouver, BC.
Before his association with Western Medical, Dr Hodkinson had a long and varied career giving him valuable insight into many fields of medicine that now benefits the company’s clients:
- General practitioner in the UK and Canada
- Staff pathologist at the Misericordia Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta
- Pathologist with the Medical Examiner’s Office in Edmonton determining the cause of death
- Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Alberta
- President of the Alberta Society of Laboratory Physicians
- Chairman of a Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons committee in Ottawa
- CEO of a large private medical laboratory in Edmonton, Alberta
