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The World Health Organization’s special envoy on COVID-19 urged world leaders this week to stop “using lockdowns as your primary control method.”
“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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Earlier this week, thousands of medical health experts signed their names to a petition calling for the end of coronavirus lockdowns, citing the “irreparable damage” they’ve caused.
"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, known as the Great Barrington Declaration. "Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health."
The Kung Flu has proved a godsend for petty dictators around the world and that especially includes our own Democrats. Readers whose memory extends all the way back to March will recall that the justification for “brief” shutdown was exactly what the WHO still recommends today: “to buy you time to reorganize, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted….”
That was accomplished long ago, yet Democrat-controlled states simply shifted goals, and their allies in the media went with them; Republican governors who reopened their states are accused of murdering their citizens for political purposes. No they aren’t, they’re just following and trusting the science. Look for the Democrats to follow suit, beginning November 4th.
