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That document does recommend "school measures and closures" and "workplace measures and closures" for severe epidemics, and it also does in fact recommend "inte
by geofft 5y ago
That document does recommend "school measures and closures" and "workplace measures and closures" for severe epidemics, and it also does in fact recommend "internal travel restrictions" once it becomes a pandemic.
Hence my question about what you mean by "lockdown." This document actually argues in favor of the sorts of things called "lockdowns" in the media, and against quarantines - which was not my personal position, but I think it definitely does not back up the claim that lockdowns (in the media sense) do not work, either.
I would also note that right beside all of the things you quote is a column "Quality of evidence," and the recommendations saying that you should avoid home quarantines and border closures are based on evidence of "very low" quality. So I don't think that you or the WHO actually have evidence saying that these things don't work. The WHO just went with their gut feelings that they were bad ideas. Now we have facts, which supersede feelings. That is an appropriate, science-based reason to change your opinions.
(Also, SARS-COV-2 is not an influenza pandemic, it's a SARS pandemic, and this document is about influenza.)