Dr. Roger Hodkinson, the expert medical witness who I relied upon and cited in my presentation, “Getting Down to the Facts on COVID-19”, to Cochrane’s Town Council on Monday, June 14th, has explained that are two principal drivers for the fear and hysteria that has been generated related to Covid-19. One such driver is asymptomatic testing with the flawed PCR test, which is not only useless because of false positives, but counter-productive because it drives ongoing public hysteria, which, in turn, is used by politicians to double down on mandates known to be ineffective. The second driver according to Dr. Hodkinson is brutal international silencing of all counter opinions to the official narrative from politicians, journalists or physicians, particularly physicians who are seen as the most reliable source of information for the general public.
Even to debate these questions is now stigmatized by government, the mainstream media, professional colleges and especially Big Tech (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc.) as irresponsible, and to be resolutely suppressed.
Therefore, it should come as no surprise, that even here in a Cochrane our local media has chosen to remain silent about my presentation to Cochrane’s Town Council.
While Noel Edey with Cochrane Now chose to report on a motion related to Truth and Reconciliation brought forward by Councillor Flowers at the Council meeting on June 14th, it was crickets with respect to my presentation to Council. Time will tell if there will be any report next week by the Cochrane Times and the Cochrane Eagle.
Noteworthy, however, while the Editor of the Cochrane Eagle, Chelsea Kemp did not include a report on my presentation in this week’s issue, she penned an Editorial, “Patience, kindness and respect needed as Alberta opens”, which I see as a back-handed swipe at me and my presentation. My drawing attention to the flaws in the lockdowns, presumably in her view, shows a lack of patience, kindness and respect on my part and feeds “into the divisiveness that has been growing over the past 14 months”. Instead, “Going forward one of our chief goals should be working together to unite.” In that light, my presentation to Council addressing the Town Administration’s directive to “Know the facts” is deemed to be sowing division.
And Mayor Jeff Genung fed into her narrative with his quote, “This is not a time to continue to divide our community. It’s time to unite and come together, link arms and rise up – Whether you agree with what happened, whether it was true or false or whatever. It’s upon each of us now to look forward and build a future for our community.” In other words, we should forget what happened in the past, link arms together, sing Kumbaya and march into Kenney’s promised best summer ever. There is no context fir when mayor Genung said what he said. Therefore, it comes across as if the Cochrane Eagle and the Town Administration and Mayor actually collaborated in creating this narrative in order to dismiss my presentation and anyone critical of the government restrictions.
Such a response by the Cochrane Eagle and the Town’s Mayor brings to mind a quote from Winston Churchill from a 1948 speech he supposedly made to the British House of Commons which paraphrased what George Santayana had said in 1905 (“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”):
“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
Appears that the Cochrane Eagle and the Town’s Mayor, Jeff Genung, the latter apparently not concerned “whether it was true or false”, are not willing to learn anything from history.