Dr. Joel Kettner former Chief Public Health Officer for Manitoba challenges the policies of Coronavirus regime on CBC Radio – March 15, 2020
The segment of interest for this audio file runs from 1h12 to 1h21
Copy of audio: here. Mp3 file available here (https://20253.mc.tritondigital.com/CBC_CROSS_COUNTRY_CHECKUP_FROM_CBC_RADIO_P/media-session/64c7bc89-9b08-4d03-970b-53a9bfe0fee0/checkup-IpW5ilaP-20200315.mp3) and here (https://22083.mc.tritondigital.com/CBC_CROSS_COUNTRY_CHECKUP_FROM_CBC_RADIO_P/media-session/8be8e754-53ca-4780-bcad-6dec2e83ff47/checkup-IpW5ilaP-20200315.mp3). This audio from the program’s archives appears to match the transcript below.
Dr Joel Kettner is professor of Community Health Sciences and Surgery at Manitoba University, former Chief Public Health Officer for Manitoba province and Medical Director of the International Centre for Infectious Diseases.
[I corrected transcript in a couple of places]
CBC Radio – Cross Country Checkup, March 15 2020
Duncan McCue (DM, Host): Dr Joel Kettner is on the line from Manitoba. Hi, Dr Kettner welcome to Checkup. You teach at the University of Manitoba and are former Chief Medical Officer of Manitoba, I understand. So what do you think of how we are coping right now?
Dr Joel Kettner (JK): Well I don’t know what to think, frankly, but I’ll tell you what I do think. First, I wanna say that in 30 years of public health medicine I have never seen anything like this, anything anywhere near like this. I’m not talking about the pandemic, because I’ve seen 30 of them, one every year. It is called influenza. And other respiratory illness viruses, we don’t always know what they are. But I’ve never seen this reaction, and I’m trying to understand why. I have to say that I really feel for my colleagues that are in public health practice. it is easy for me to sit in the armchair of my office and look at this and observe it, and be critical and have ideas. But I really feel for them for three reasons.
One is that the data they are getting is incomplete to really make sense of the size of the threat. We are getting very crude numbers of cases and deaths, very little information about testing rates, contagious analysis, severity rates, who is being hospitalised, who is in intensive care, who is dying, what are the definitions to decide if someone died of the coronavirus or just died with the coronavirus.
There is so much important data that is very hard to get to guide the decisions on how serious a threat this is.
The other part is we actually do not have that much good evidence for the social distancing methods. It was just a couple of review in the CDC emerging infectious disease journal, which showed that although some of them might work, we really don’t know to what degree and the evidence is pretty weak.
The third [problem] is the pressure that is being put on public health doctors and public health leaders. And that pressure is coming from various places. The first place it came from was the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) when he said “This is a grave threat and a public [health] enemy number one”, I have never heard a Director-General of WHO use terms like that.
Then when he announced the pandemic he said he was doing it “because of a grave alarming quick spread of the disease and an alarming amount of inaction around the world”. That puts a huge pressure on public health doctors and leaders and advisors and huge pressure on governments and then you get this what seems like a cascade of decision making that really puts pressure on countries and governments – provincial, state – to sort of…to keep up with this action that Dr Hoffman [an earlier guest on the programme] said that we are trying to avoid, or should avoid, which is an overreaction. I don’t know what is an appropriate reaction, but I do know that I am having trouble [figuring] this out and I…
[INTERRUPTED BY HOST]
[Comment: At this point, a guest pushes “vaccines” as a “solution” – supposedly “vaccines” that don’t exist yet and certainly not ones that have been vetted. Isn’t that amazing how there is already this wonderful “vaccine” that hasn’t been chosen or properly safety-tested! And we are to assume it is going to “work” to prevent this specific virus?]
DM: …So I’m sure that your medical colleagues across the country are probably nodding their heads when you say they don’t have enough data, that they lack data. I suspect health professionals around the world wish they had more data, whether it is testing rates, severity rates, all that kind of thing. So it’s probably a valid concern. But you mentioned that you are not confident with some of the literature with regard to social distancing and its effectiveness […] What is the basis of your concern then? If social distancing is debatable in your mind, what do you worry about then?
JK: I worry about the consequences of social distancing. I worry about people who are losing their jobs. I worry about interruptions with the healthcare system itself. There are many doctors in Manitoba in quarantine right now, because they have returned from other countries. I worry about the message to the public, about the fear of coming into contact with people, being in the same space as people, shaking their hands, having meetings with people. I worry about many, many consequences related to that.
If you look at the data for what we are actually dealing with, I want to give this example. In Hubei, in the province of Hubei, where there has been the most cases and deaths by far, the actual number of cases reported is 1 per 1000 people and the actual rate of deaths reported is 1 per 20,000. So maybe that would help to put things into perspective, as to the actual rate and risks of this condition, because it is a lot lower in any other part of the world, including Italy, and certainly in Canada and the United States…
When the media pretend to be objective truth-tellers but act in service to the State or to the public-private oligarchy that is dominating our world, I think it is just evidence of corruption when the same talking points are repeated–for example, the question about “what if we run out of ventilators?” This is a malevolent eugenics-based, life-boat ethics line of questioning introduced into the Canadian media right from the start. It also gives everyone the idea that there would be a shortage of ventilators.
Corruption goes with tyranny. People are being bought off in order to betray a society that to a large degree was predicated on rights and freedoms. And a lot of people have had their minds poisoned by subversive, anti-reality, tyranny-justifying doctrines they received from a corrupt education system. But mostly people are concerned about finances, comfort and approval from others at a higher level.
The embedded audio can be found at this link too:
https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/24/12-experts-questioning-the-coronavirus-panic/
Thanks to off-guardian.org.
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