“The bottom line is this,” he addressed the group. “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 to be done to contain this virus other than protecting your 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.” Continuing, Dr. Hodkinson added, “Masks are utterly useless. There is no evidence based on their effectiveness whatsoever. Paper masks and fabric masks are simply virtue signaling. Seeing these uneducated people walking around like lemmings, obeying without any knowledge base to put the mask on their face.” 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
Electing Trump to build a wall along the entire southern border, have Mexico pay for it, and balance the federal budget eliminating the national debt while he's at it wasn't the biggest hoax?
I don't entirely disagree with this guy with regard to the media's role, however the opinion expressed above is wrong. There are simple things to be done as any epidemiologist can explain. Washing your hands is one of those things. This guy is a pathologist ; not an epidemiologist. The pathologist is definitely wrong about the efficacy of masks for protecting oneself and others when in public places. They are not totally ineffective, and they are something we can all do that is simple and cheap. The reason simple paper and fabric masks are effective is because expelled virus are not naked but are enclosed in aqueous droplets 1K-100K larger. These larger particles are intercepted and adsorbed by ordinary masks. There are studies that have demonstrated the effectiveness of masks compared with no protection at all. Some of these have been reference in posts on ET.
He's not the "Top" guy in anything other then his own company. This is what these idiot posters do pronounce people top experts when they are not.
You are anti science and data. The only real study we have shows that masks are ineffective at preventing the spread of Covid. We also have medical studies showing masks are ineffective at preventing the spread of other viruses and that dirty masks are dangerous. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817