WHO official urges world leaders to stop using lockdowns as primary virus control method

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“We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus,” Dr. David Nabarro said to The Spectator’s Andrew Neil. “The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it.”

Nabarro went on to point out several of the negative consequences lockdowns have caused across the world, including devastating tourism industries and increased hunger and poverty.

"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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Gaslighting bastards, they were all for it a few months back. Any idiot could have told them this would be absolutely catastrophic for less wealthy countries.

Actually the WHO advocates a proper track and trace approach, face masks and a decent health service......

Have we any of those? 1/3 isn’t good enough.

The tories decimated the NHS - 4 years ago they did a scenario to test how the health service would cope with a pandemic and they ignored it.

The Tories have given loads of money to private contractors for track and trace and it has failed. Others have done it cheaper and better than us.

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So what do they suggest instead? Because if it's track and trace...well I'm afraid that motherfucking ship has sailed

Any idiot could have told them this would be absolutely catastrophic for less wealthy countries.

Totally agree

Until the world can accept that minimising the numbers of corona deaths at all costs isn't a viable strategy nothing will change. Unfortunately it is almost certainly the case that the best long term strategy would be in accepting that large numbers of elderly people in poor health will die (on average) a few months earlier than would have been the case if there was not a pandemic and having very limited treatment available to such people in order to free up resources to keep the vast majority of those who have many years left to live alive and society largely functioning as normal.

The WHO isn't against minimising COVID deaths or saying we should let it run rampant. They are acknowledging that lockdown is not a long term strategy (it was never meant to be). They advocate other methods, such as robust track and trace, to minimise spread. We just haven't managed it after the first lockdown, so are now needing to put additional lockdown measures in place. Lockdown is an emergency stop, not a long term management method, and it never has been.

Lockdown hasn't felt like an emergency measure for quite some months now.