"Is there anything the government does that is based on evidence?”

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— talkRADIO (@talkRADIO) November 27, 2020

DR. ROGER HODKINSON ON COVID: “THIS IS THE BIGGEST HOAX EVER PERPETRATED ON AN UNSUSPECTING PUBLIC”

The video from the original site has been taken down from YouTube.  But you have two options: one, you can watch/listen to it on Facebook here, or, two, you can listen to the audio version at SummitNews.  

Who is Dr. Roger Hodkinson? 

Dr. Roger Hodkinson is the former Chairman of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons committee in Ottawa, he was once CEO of a large private medical laboratory in Edmonton, Alberta, and for the past 20 years has held the position as Chairman of a Medical Biotechnology company based in North Carolina currently tasked with selling a COVID-19 test. He is a medical specialist in pathology, which includes virology, who trained at Cambridge University in the UK — he is perfectly positioned to speak on this topic. 

By Paul Joseph Watson

Top pathologist Dr. Roger Hodkinson told government officials in Alberta during a zoom conference call that the current coronavirus crisis is “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public.”  

Hodkinson’s comments were made during a discussion involving the Community and Public Services Committee and the clip was subsequently uploaded to YouTube.

Noting that he was also an expert in virology, Hodkinson pointed out that his role as CEO of a biotech company that manufactures COVID tests means, “I might know a little bit about all 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,” said Hodkinson.

The doctor said that nothing could be done to stop the spread of the virus besides protecting older more vulnerable people and that the whole situation represented “politics playing medicine, and that’s a very dangerous game.”

Hodkinson remarked that “social distancing is useless because COVID is spread by aerosols which travel 30 meters or so before landing,” as he called for society to be re-opened immediately to prevent the debilitating damage being caused by lockdowns.

Hodkinson also slammed mandatory mask mandates as completely pointless.

“Masks are utterly useless. There is no evidence base for their effectiveness whatsoever,” he said.

“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.”

The doctor also slammed the unreliability of PCR tests, noting that “positive test results do not, underlined in neon, mean a clinical infection,” and that all testing should stop because the false numbers are “driving public hysteria.”

Hodkinson said that the risk of death in the province of Alberta for people under the age of 65 was “one in three hundred thousand,” and that it was simply “outrageous” to shut down society for what the doctor said “was just another bad flu.”

“I’m absolutely outraged that this has reached this level, it should all stop tomorrow,” concluded Dr. Hodkinson.

Hodkinson’s credentials are beyond question, with the MedMalDoctors website affirming his credibility.

“He received his general medical degrees from Cambridge University in the UK (M.A., M.B., B. Chir.) where he was a scholar at Corpus Christi College. Following a residency at the University of British Columbia, he became a Royal College certified general pathologist (FRCPC) and also a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists (FCAP).”

“He is in good standing with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta, and has been recognized by the Court of Queen’s Bench in Alberta as an expert in pathology.”

"Lockdown Science: we have no idea what we're doing, but if something brings people pleasure, we should probably discontinue that."

"Don’t ever be intimidated by public health officials.  These were the kids who by and large weren’t bright enough to get into medical school.”

A must-listen presentation by Dr. Thomas Woods.  One of Tom's best; perhaps his very best.  Here are his show notes. 

130 million people are at risk of dying of starvation from the lockdown alone.  How many babies born this year or last year have never seen a human face?  

Driving people to despair--is that saving lives?  

Lockdowns science: we have no idea what we're doing, but if something brings people pleasure, we should probably discontinue that.  and if something causes great inconvenience or even pain, we should probably do that.   

Don’t ever be intimidated by public health officials.  These were the kids who by and large weren’t bright enough to get into medical school.”

from Lord Sumption, former Supreme Court Judge:

Money is not just for plutocrats.  You and I and the editor of the Guardian and the driver of the Number 9 bus and the archbishop of Canterbury and the cashier at the supermarket all value and depend on money.  Not just in the sense that it pays our wages and pensions, hundreds of thousands of businesses are going under.  Millions are moving from jobs to universal credit.  A thriving economy that we are now throwing away, is the source of our security and the foundation of our children’s future.  We would do well not to sneer at it.  Poverty kills too.  And when it does not kill, it maims physically and mentally and socially.  Do we really want to be, he continues, “the kind of society where basic freedoms are conditional on the decisions of politicians enthralled to scientists and statisticians, where human beings are just tools of public policy?  A society in which government can confine most of the population without controversy is not one in which civilized people would want to live.  Regardless of their answers to these questions, is it worth it?  My own answer is no.  Guidance is fine.  Voluntary self-isolation is fine and strongly advisable for the more vulnerable; most of them will do it by choice.  But coercion is not fine.  There is no moral or principled justification for it.  What sort of life do we think we are protecting?  There is more life than the avoidance of death.  Life is a drink with friends.  Life is a crowded football match or a live concert.  Life is a family celebration with children and grandchildren.  Life is companionship, an arm around one’s back.  Laughter or tears shared in less than 2 meters.  These things are not just optional extras; they’re life itself.  They’re fundamental to our humanity, to our existence as social beings. 

from Tom Woods:

People living in an irrational field already have their representatives—the entire entertainment world, the media, all the political class.  The rest of us have almost no one.  People whose family members died because their procedures were indefinitely postponed or who lost a loved one to suicide or who’ve had everything they’ve poured their hearts into, crushed and destroyed, they have no one.  Elderly people dying of social isolation, who are told: “they can see their grandkids through a window” or over Zoom.  But who think they themselves can best judge what life they want to live likewise have no one to speak for them.  You may have heard the case in Colorado at FairAcres Manor [in Greely, Colorado].  People in wheelchairs holding signs saying, “Would rather die of COVID than of loneliness.  We’re prisoners in our own home.  Or give us freedom.” One of the administrators at that nursing home said they want to be able to hug their grandchildren, they want to be able to hold the hands of their loved ones. And one of the residents said we did this because one of the things we look forward to is a simple hug.  It gives us meaning.  The physical and mental health toll is staggering, and no one is allowed to mention for fear they’re being told they want grandmothers to die.  No one will speak for them except you.  People will hate you for this.  Automatons who can do nothing but repeat CBS news talking points will think you’re terrible.  The rest of us will consider you a hero.  With every speech you give, every article you write, every social media post, every attempt to resist, you’ll be a hero.  There’s nobody is coming to the rescue.  You must be the voice of the voiceless because if it isn’t you, it will be no one.   

Here are the resources Tom provides via email:  

Resources for COVID Rationality

Here is the list of resources I gave a room of 100 state legislators from around the country to help them get the full picture of the virus and the government response.

Twitter accounts to follow:

@ThomasEWoods (naturally!)

@AlexBerenson

@PhilMagness.

@jhaskinscabrera

@kerpen

@MartinKulldorff

@yinonw

@Hold2LLC

@OBusybody

@AJKayWriter

@boriquagato

@covid_clarity

@covidtweets

There are many, many more. I have found these to be excellent aggregators of information, however.

RESOURCES:

RationalGround.com

ThePriceOfPanic.com

Pandata19.com

CollateralGlobal.org (on collateral damage from lockdowns)

gbdeclaration.org (The Great Barrington Declaration)

LockdownSceptics.org (UK, but still helpful for a US audience)

MASK CHARTS:

https://rationalground.com/mask-charts/

https://rationalground.com/more-mask-charts/

https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/29/these-12-graphs-show-mask-mandates-do-nothing-to-stop-covid/

Follow @ianmSC [or Ian Miller] on Twitter for ongoing charts

My podcast, the Tom Woods Show, has featured a lot of important guests on the topic:

TomsPodcast.com

Bring the letter with you and have the quote within the letter. 

Cite HIPPA.  Cite ADA.  Here is the letter to CostCo that Peggy cites: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ec33703d876e52434d8b91c/t/5ed3364ee080e33f63a33bda/1590900424028/costco+no+mask+letter.png.

8:30.  When somebody breaks a contract, you don’t want to walk away.  You have a cause of action.  So use it.  Make them perform under the contract.  I’ll show you how to do that.  There’s a couple of things you do.  Yeah, you can sue them and obtain an injunction; that’s entirely likely.  An injunction is an order from a court to do or to stop doing something.  so what happens then is the store has a policy, for whatever reason, is violating the law, and then you go to the court and say, “Judge, they’re violating the law and it's affecting me in this way, and it may affect the public, therefore, I want an injunction restraining this organization from engaging in this conduct.” 

Now if they continue doing it, now they’re under a court order, and they could be in violation, in contempt, whereas if you don’t do that, you could be charged with trespass.  We all know that’s bogus.  But if you do this first, now you have the power because now you have a court order.  They don’t.  That’s the civil aspect of it. 

There’s the criminal aspect of it, and if you guys like this idea—what we’re talking about before about, you know, make him sign something, you know, or hand him a notice, right?  Imagine writing a citation.  Imagine writing a traffic ticket: A Notice to Appear.  So the way you do it is—this is what I recommend.  You’ve got the civil aspect, we’ll get into that, but on the criminal side when you have someone wearing a mask—and I believe you can see this in every state—when someone’s wearing a mask, and harassing you when he’s concealing his identity and threatening you or harassing or intimidating you, or even assaulting you [where the threat of harm is iminent], whatever you know in something that creates a cause of action that you can make against that individual or his employer, like a civil cause of action.  If you have a civil cause of action, because of his conduct, that’s also a crime by the fact that you can sue for a civil violation.  It also is a crime in that individual was a suspect in the crime.  Normally wearing a mask and intimidating people or harassing them is a second-degree misdemeanor.  It’s going to vary like that by state.  Some states are really specific.  I mean California I did these for California and Florida, so you guys can start there. 

Alright, so the way you do this is now . . .  11:00.

Peggy interrupts.  12:25.  A civil violation is someone stepping over your civil rights.  They didn't let you in the store

13:27.  John Jay Singleton.  This morning I went to Costco, doing the things I like, shopping for my friend, and I was assaulted.  I walked in there and the guy at the door had a box of masks, my wife and I went in there together, and he walked over to me and touched my shoulder, and I said "Don't touch me!"  That's assault right there, but I didn't want to do anything because there are other issues there, and if I'm going to say that this guy assaulted me, you know, what am I?  It's not worth it, but that technically was assault.  He touched me.  You've got to use some judgment there.  I'm not trying to wreck everybody's day.  And we have a good time over there, so we like that place.  You have to have a cause of action—you have to have a right [or justification] to sue somebody.  So we have the civil aspect, but here’s the criminal aspect.  The criminal law, with few exceptions, okay, there are criminal statutes, like RICO.  RICO was used against the mafia or organized crime.  There is a private right of action in a RICO claim.  

I’m not talking about that we should do this.  The other private right of action, something you identified earlier, a couple of months ago, Peggy, was Title XVIII of the Criminal Code.  Title XVIII to the United States Code, there’s a section, Number 1038, and in that there’s a private right of action dealing with public funds.  You actually can sue where normally the police or the Dept. of Justice or the U.S. Attorney’s Office or the Attorney General ONLY have the right to prosecute somebody.  In that particular statute, you’re allowed to some somebody for a crime.  When it comes to things like with the mask-wearing, you don’t have a private right of action.  It’s only public, so good luck getting the AG’s Office to prosecute against a guard or security officer, a store employee, they’re not going to do it.  You have to do it.  YOU HAVE A CLAIM TO MAKE—you would seek an injunction.  The injunction is because someone committed a crime, you don’t have the private right of action to prosecute the crime, but you do have a personal interest in the violation because it affected you.  And you can’t state a cause of action.  You have the right to sue, but you also have to allege certain facts.  I’m not going to get into all of those details; it’s in my document.  You have to say certain things in the complaint.  If you don’t, the judge will throw it out. 

They had a police officer there, and he was unarmed, he was a sheriff’s deputy at the door.  And he literally stood in front of my wife to block her with his body.  Now that’s a crime, and he was wearing a mask, you know, covering his whole face, and went off to give her whatever . . . . she doesn’t stop.  She’s only 5’1” and she just said, “You know, I’m gonna go shopping.  You do your thing,” and she walked around him, so, but in that case what you can do is file a lawsuit against the sheriff’s office.  So now there’s a lawsuit, and the court issues a case number.  This is civil case 

 

"Sleep the night before the test didn’t matter, the week & month before did"

Why sleep is so important for students (and everyone else), as found in this study of an MIT chemistry class:
🛌The quality of sleep accounted for 25% of the variance in grades!
💤 Sleep the night before the test didn’t matter, the week & month before did https://t.co/Qitv0zon2Q pic.twitter.com/96054PNFLl

— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) November 12, 2020

Not only does melatonin improve the quality of sleep as well as duration, it's also been recognized as the only agent to normalize blood pressure if that's a concern for you.  

Bill Sardi writes, "Melatonin is the only agent that Dr. Houston has found to work to normalize blood pressure among patients whose blood pressure does not dip at night."