And now another edition of the cry, American goodies, by the people, over people.

To, uh, S. Peterson.

S. Peterson.

Mr. Chairman, this is Dr. Hartkinson. I just wanted to let you have a standing mic.

Oh, okay. Well, we would love to hear from you. The floor is yours.

Thank you very much. I do appreciate the opportunity to address you on this very important matter.

What I'm going to say is lay language and blunt. It's counter-narrative, and so, so you don't

immediately think I'm a quack. I'm going to briefly outline my credentials so that you can

understand where I'm coming from in terms of knowledge base and all of this. I'm a medical specialist

in pathology, which includes virology. I trained at Cambridge University in the UK.

I'm the ex-president of the pathology section of the Medical Association. I was previously

an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine doing a lot of teaching. I was the chairman

of the Volatology of Physicians of Canada Examination Committee in Pathology in Ottawa.

But most of the points are currently the chairman of a biotechnology company in North Carolina

selling a COVID-19 test. And I might, you might say, I know a little bit about all of this.

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 hope 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 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 time needed other than what happened last year when we got

until done well. We stayed home, we took chicken noodle soup, we didn't visit scrawny,

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