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A London city councillor with a track record of questioning scientific evidence suggests it’s time to open non-essential businesses and revert from stay-at-home measures, a move one longtime political observer says is “just wrong.”

Ward 1 Coun. Michael van Holst cited an urgent care doctor in California as saying only “an infinitesimal number of healthy people die from COVID-19″ and we should “get all business back to work.”

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While councillors are free to express their opinions on social media, a former politician who now writes and speaks about local government said van Holst shouldn’t be weighing in on what’s clearly a medical decision.

“It creates a false expectation (for the public). I think the potential consequences from being wrong are very severe,” said Gord Hume, who served several terms on London city council.

“When politicians start interfering in medical stuff – you’ve seen it day after day from (American President Donald) Trump, he has put out some bizarre statement about medical conditions and situations and drugs and so on – it’s just wrong.”