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They criticized lockdowns as the primary means to control the virus. They didn't argue against the usefulness of lockdowns in themselves. However, lockdowns hav
by verst 6y ago
They criticized lockdowns as the primary means to control the virus. They didn't argue against the usefulness of lockdowns in themselves. However, lockdowns have significant impact on poor people getting poorer.
WHO envoy Dr. David Nabarro:
> "We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus"
> "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."
> "Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never, ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer"
> "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"
> "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."
- tathougies 6y agoWell kudos to them for finally seeing reason, but I'm not willing to give them much of a break. They pushed for lockdowns full well knowing all these consequences before hand. Everyone (including myself) who mentioned a few months ago that lockdowns will make the poor poorer and will push large portions of the population into destitution were accused of being anti-science shills who cared more about property than human life. Now the chickens have come home to roost and the WHO has once again demonstrated its lack of understanding of topics beyond the realm of health. In and of itself of course, the WHO not being competent in running a society is not a bad thing -- doctors are not politicians after all -- but what is scary is how much influence they have had making societal decisions extending well beyond medicine.
- rrss 6y ago> Everyone (including myself) who mentioned a few months ago that lockdowns will make the poor poorer Everyone, including the WHO, too. Read the WHO's "COVID-19 Strategy Update" from mid-April. It's pretty clear about the cost of lockdown-esque restrictions. https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/covid-strategy-update-14april2020.pdf https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/covid-s..., especially page 9.