NOW they tell us.
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wrote on 12 Oct 2020, 12:51 last edited by
Remember how we should trust the science?
Masks don't work! Wait! Masks work.
Lockdowns work! Wait...
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.”
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wrote on 12 Oct 2020, 13:01 last edited by
Surely masks and social distancing are the ‘primary’ response. With testing and contact tracing secondary?
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Surely masks and social distancing are the ‘primary’ response. With testing and contact tracing secondary?
wrote on 12 Oct 2020, 13:10 last edited by@jon-nyc said in NOW they tell us.:
Surely masks and social distancing are the ‘primary’ response. With testing and contact tracing secondary?
I think @Jolly post this same article and I had the same response as you Jon.
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wrote on 12 Oct 2020, 13:28 last edited by
They can eschew lockdowns all they want, but the genie is out of the bottle. Folks are not going to go out and travel as normal until this is whipped.