WHO Flip-Flops Again, Now Says COVID-19 Lockdowns Are Bad

After instigating a global panic about the corona-virus pandemic, the World Health Organization now insists that governments should not use lock-downs in combating the virus

In a flip-flop of monumental proportions, the World Health Organization’s special envoy on COVID-19 is urging world leaders not to use lockdowns as the chief weapon against the virus.

David Nabarro, the special envoy named by the embattled organization, told reporters that lockdowns should be used sparingly and for only specific situations, temporary in nature.

“We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus,” Nabarro said in an interview October 8, 2020. “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 specifically pointed to the devastation lockdowns have caused the economies of the world, and to the severe societal damage they cause to communities and the those below the poverty line.

“This is a terrible, ghastly global catastrophe, actually,” he said. “And so we really do appeal to all world leaders: Stop using lockdown as your primary control method, develop better systems for doing it, work together and learn from each other, but remember – lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer.”

Nabarro joins a growing community of medical and public health scientists and medical practitioners who are advocating for the abandonment of generalized lockdowns and mass quarantines.

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