Coronavirus: WHO backflips on virus stance by condemning lockdowns Lockdowns have been used to control the coronavirus around the world. Now a WHO official has questioned the success of them. (VIDEO AFTER THE LINK JUMP - CANNOT POST HERE) The World Health Organisation has backflipped on its original COVID-19 stance after calling for world leaders to stop locking down their countries and economies. Dr. David Nabarro from the WHO appealed to world leaders yesterday, telling them to stop “using lockdowns as your primary control method” of the coronavirus. He also claimed that the only thing lockdowns achieved was poverty – with no mention of the potential lives saved. “Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer,” he said. “We in the World Health Organisation do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus,” Dr Nabarro told The Spectator. “The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganise, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it.” Dr Nabarro’s main criticism of lockdowns involved the global impact, explaining how poorer economies that had been indirectly affected. “Just look at what’s happened to the tourism industry in the Caribbean, for example, or in the Pacific because people aren’t taking their holidays,” he said. “Look what’s happened to smallholder farmers all over the world. … Look what’s happening to poverty levels. It seems that we may well have a doubling of world poverty by next year. We may well have at least a doubling of child malnutrition.” Melbourne’s lockdown has been hailed as one of the strictest and longest in the world. In Spain’s lockdown in March, people weren’t allowed to leave the house unless it was to walk their pet. In China, authorities welded doors shut to stop people from leaving their homes. The WHO thinks these steps were largely unnecessary. Instead, Dr Nabarro is advocating for a new approach to containing the virus. “And so, we really do appeal to all world leaders: stop using lockdown as your primary control method. Develop better systems for doing it. Work together and learn from each other.” His message is timely. In a world first, a number of health experts from all over the world came together calling for an end to coronavirus lockdowns earlier this week. They created a petition, called the Great Barrington Declaration, which said that lockdowns were doing “irreparable damage.” “As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists, we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection,” read the petition. “Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.” The petition has had 12,000 signatures so far. It was authored by Sunetra Gupta of the University of Oxford, Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, and Martin Kulldorff of Harvard University. When asked about the petition, Dr Nabarro had only good things to say. “Really important point by Professor Gupta,” he said.
Remember this is just one representative of the WHO who does not speak for the WHO. We should have a pool to see how many hours it takes the WHO to officially come out and refute this statement from David Nabarro.
A lockdown when Covid first came on the scene was reasonable because we didn’t know what we were dealing with and there was a serious PPE shortage. Further, there were concerns the healthcare system could be overwhelned. Remember “Flatten the curve”? Although Covid’s severity is still debated, at least it is not a doomsday virus and we are pobably getting closer to a partially effective vaccine. Further, PPE and other supplies are plentiful, making any further lockdowns counterproductive. The next step in controlling outbreaks, if necessary, is PPE training and enforcement.
Just remember the people opposed to following the best public health practices of implementing new lockdowns when facing a novel pandemic are the same ones opposed to wearing masks.
Flatten the curve - I remember that. Was like a 3 week event we were told. We're on week 25 of the 3 week event.
The lockdowns aren't about health. It's crisis management. Keeping a buffer for hospitals so they can manage. The alternative is that when you need a hospital for a non-Covid medical emergency, say a burst appendix, they will tell you to come back next month.
Jesus H. Christo--------8 months in---sorry we destroyed the world---now stop, we were wrong, turn around.
Most of the world is out of lockdown and in later stages of opening.. only thing hurting is inernational travel which is somewhat dead. U.S. never did a coordinated lockdown starting end of March which would have been done by June and we would all be in Phase 3 or 4 by now. Some U.S. states are fully in school and fully open, other states have limited commerce and virtual schools. A real shit show because we have 50 countries deciding on how to deal with this and all looking for centralized guidance from WH, CDC, HHS, WHO etc.... IN speaking with business associates in Japan, Malaysia, Italy, Panama and Indonesia, they are half the time home and half the time in the office but the cities are almost back to normal for shopping and eating with certain exceptions with limited cases. How can that be when they have just as densely populated areas as the U.S.? Cause Americans can never get their shit together no matter who is in office.
No---it wouldn't be done. You don't get it-----this lockdown thingy is a power grab by Leftists. They don't let go of stuff like that that quickly.