Alberta Doctors Speak Out

Dr. Roger Hodkinson begins speaking at 16:35 until the end of video:

• 16:37 – my presentation to you today is about the most grave injustice our society has ever experienced
• 17:00 – I am a medical specialist in pathology and graduate of Cambridge University, UK; I’ve had many leadership roles in medicine, both provincially and nationally, including those as a university teacher, Board examiner, and laboratory accreditation inspector; I was previously the Present of the Alberta Society of Laboratory Physicians, otherwise known as pathologists and have been an Assistant Professor in the faculty of Medicine at the U of A
• 17:47 – I’m not an anti-vaxer, conspiracy theorist or great resitter; I’ve spent my entire career in evidence-based medicine
• 17:57 – no one is an expert in all the fields involved here, but what is desperately needed is for the general public to hear common sense from a qualified person, and I’d like to think that’s me
• 18:26 – in my opinion, during the covid pandemic, there has been a gross intrusion of government inter-health matters that could have been perfectly managed by individual adults, as was the case with all recent pandemics
• 18:41 – the degree of this government overreach has resulted in the most profound fear and utterly unwarranted loss of personal freedoms ever witnessed in Alberta in its entire history
• 18:57 – in essence, public health is the practice of medicine at a societal level and it should follow standard medical ethics where every act is performed for good reason
• 19:07 – that is no different from the obligation of an individual physician to his or her patient; society is in fact, the patient of the Chief Medical Officer of Health
• 19:21 – in medicine the primary ethic is the Hippocratic oath – first do no harm; but that concept appears to have been totally ignored as the harmful consequences are, by any measure, grotesquely disproportional to any of the purported benefits – the cure is far worse than the disease
• 19:41 – the mandated interventions should have been supported, at the very least, by a consensus in evidence-based medicine that they would be successful
• 19:54 – however, all the measures being currently undertaken, including masks, these things, I’m sure you are familiar with them, social distancing and closures of all kinds have NO consensus for effectiveness in the medical literature
• 20:10 – in fact, the weight of evidence is against these measures
• 20:14 – masks are, you might say, the very face of this issue – the very visible evidence of compliance
• 20:22 – the various mandates can only be perceived as arbitrary, knee jerk reactions for politicians to convince the general public that they are doing something
• 20:35 – but politics playing medicine is a very dangerous game
• 20:42 – politicians must get their heads around the fact that in 2021 medicine is impotent at controlling the spread of the covid-19 pandemic in the general population
• 20:58 – the genie is out of the bottle, its everywhere and we must accept common sense accommodation as per The Great Barrington Declaration, as the only viable approach
• 21:08 – let me state emphatically again, nothing works to control the spread of this virus
• 21:16 – in my opinion and many more expert than me, the approach to this pandemic in Alberta [all of Canada] was wrong-headed from its very inception
• 21:26 – as The Great Barrington Declaration eloquently argues - there should have been no change in public policy compared to previous pandemics – life should not have changed one iota, except for enhanced protected of the vulnerable 
• 21:42 – The Great Barrington Declaration called that approach “focused protection” and the only public health intervention that was needed
• 21:49 – I firmly support that conclusion
• 21:53 – Dr. Bhattacharya, an internationally esteemed epidemiologist from Stanford, has said that lockdowns are “the biggest mistake ever made in public health”
• 22:06 – trying to protect the working well with very low risk of death by shutting down the economy is obviously, ridiculously naïve
• 22:16 – lets step back for a moment and consider the actual risk of death from covid in Alberta [Canada], for asymptomatic people who feel no different today from yesterday
• 22:26 – using the governments own statistics, for the working well, those under 65, the risk of death over a whole year was 1 in 15,000
• 22:38 – I ask you, does that warrant shutting down an economy that’s already tanking?
• 22:53 – in my view, the fear and the hysteria over covid is being maintained by two principle drivers; the first driver is brutal international silencing of all counter opinions, whether from politicians, journalists or physicians; the second driver is asymptomatic testing, which is not only useless because of countless false-positives, but counter productive because it drives ongoing public hysteria
• 23:21 – public hysteria in turn is being used by politicians to double down on mandates known to be ineffective
• 23:29 – [speaking facetiously of public health mandates] you know, if one mask isn’t working today, we recommend two or maybe ten next week, who knows?
• 23:39 – I attribute the ongoing panic over covid to a litany of failures – first of all and most importantly, failure of due diligence from the very get go on the absurd computer modelling by Dr. Neil Ferguson at Imperial College, London UK
• 23:59 – that was the most singular failure as it became the predicate for similarly exaggerated responses
• 24:07 – failure to inform the public that there was no consensus in the medical literature for any of the draconian restrictions so arbitrarily introduced
• 24:20 – failure to report to the general public the cumulative adverse consequences of the interventions on general healthcare, dying relatives, funerals, weddings, church services, school closures, graduations and thousands of small business bankruptcies 
• 24:49 – failure to halt the testing of asymptomatic people – it should stop IMMEDIATELY; it has no purpose
• 24:55 – failure to produce detailed statistical reporting to inform the working well in lay terms, the actual degree of risk from covid, and that variants, as Dr. Modry indicated, are nothing to fear
• 25:10 – failure to classify deaths appropriately – the vulnerable population with many comorbidities who happened to be covid positive at the time of their death, are being classified as deaths directly due to covid – that is statistical sleight of hand – dying with covid is not the same as dying of covid
• 25:33 – failure to promote the lifesaving potential of Vitamin D which is totally safe, cheap and has overwhelming evidence of protection from covid-19 – what used to be called the season of coughs and colds is now being recognized as the season of Vitamin D deficiency; in a month or so the sun will come up again and we will all start making Vitamin D again in our skin and guess what? The pandemic will disappear again and they’ll say “see, we wrestled it to the ground”, to which I say “no such thing!” 
• 26:10 – it’s the classic fallacy trap; just because B follows A does not mean that A caused B – wake up!
• 26:20 – failure to communicate to the general public the inadequacies of PCR testing – there are no published statistics in Alberta regarding the percentage of false-positive results by PCR based methods
• 26:32 – false-positive have a huge multiplier effect on contact tracing, resulting many times that number of people being taken out of the workforce too
• 26:40 – the internationally renowned epidemiologists who authored The Great Barrington Declaration have stated categorically that contact tracing is both useless and counter productive
• 26:55 – failure to inform the public that the vaccines are all strictly experimental, lacking the customary two to four years adverse event trials, and therefore in my view, by any definition, unsafe
• 27:08 – that is a failure, a spectacular failure, of the second important medical ethic, that of “informed consent” 
• 27:18 – there was no need for a rushed vaccine given the scale of risk and in my opinion, its use is profoundly reckless
• 27:27 – there are concerns right now about its safety for women under 50 and pregnant women, already surfacing which proves the point in spades
• 27:35 – the vaccine situation has the potential of course, of getting infinitely worse, if so-called “vaccine passports” come into play
• 27:44 - [speaking facetiously] yes, they’ll say, you can refuse the vaccine if you want if you think its unsafe, but you know what? You won’t be allowed to travel – how outrageous!
• 27:57 – and finally, a failure to balance loss of freedoms against the scale of threat 
• 28:04 – the art of government is in large part about balance – in my opinion with covid-19, the Alberta government got the balance badly wrong; they prioritized the containment of covid over all else
• 28:16– the governments entre focus has been on one virus, ignoring all other measures of health and wellbeing
• 28:27 – furthermore, the profound loss of personal freedom resulting from the various mandates are an unforgiveable assault on the very essence of our humanity and totally unwarranted, given the scale of threat – this is NOT Ebola, this is NOT Sars
• 28:44 – in fact Sweden and Florida clearly demonstrate that draconian actions have little impact on the final toll from covid
• 28:51 – however, even to debate these questions is not stigmatized by government, the media and professional colleges [Doctors, Nurses, Chiropractors, etc.] as irresponsible and to be resolutely suppressed
• 29:07 – the entire population has been intimidated into compliance with the threat of outrageous fines and actual jail for disobedience
• 29:15 – the governments encouragement of citizens to snitch on each other, is utterly reprehensible
• 29:22 – in summary, these numerous failures of the government of Alberta [including all provinces and territories in Canada] in the covid pandemic have directly caused the most monstrous loss of freedoms, unwarranted fear and horrendous personal consequences ever recorded in our province [including all provinces and territories in Canada] – and all without any justifiable cause – it must end now and never be allowed to happen again
• 29:48 – the general public must never again have their rights so trampled on while we are perfectly capable of managing this type of problem ourselves, independent of any government intervention, as we have done so effectively in years gone by
• 30:05 – I repeat for effect – nothing works to stop the spread of this virus through society – nothing could work – nothing did work – and nothing will work
• 30:17 – this virus must just be allowed to run its course; government must simply accommodate to medicine’s impotence, and allow the public to use its abundant common sense