Covid 19 coronavirus: World Health Organization backs down on virus stance by condemning blockades

The World Health Organization has backtracked on its original COVID-19 stance after calling on world leaders to stop blocking their countries and economies.

WHO’s Dr. David Nabarro appealed to world leaders yesterday, telling them to stop “using lockdowns as the primary method of control” of the coronavirus.

He also claimed that the only thing the blockades achieved was poverty, not to mention the potential lives saved.

“The confinements have only one consequence that should never be underestimated, and that is to make poor people much poorer,” he said.

“We at the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of controlling this virus,” Dr. Nabarro told The Spectator.

“The only time we think a lockdown is justified is to buy time to reorganize, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but overall we prefer not to.”

Dr. Nabarro’s main criticism of the locks involved the global impact, explaining how the poorest economies had been indirectly affected.

“Just look at what happened to the tourism industry in the Caribbean, for example, or in the Pacific because people are not on vacation,” he said.

“Look at what has happened to small farmers around the world … Look at what is happening to poverty levels. It seems that global poverty is very likely to double by next year. We may at least double. child malnutrition “.

The Melbourne blockade has been hailed as one of the strictest and longest in the world. In the closing of Spain in March, people were not allowed to leave the house unless it was to walk their pet. In China, authorities welded doors to prevent people from leaving their homes. WHO believes that these steps were largely unnecessary.

Instead, Dr. Nabarro advocates a new approach to containing the virus.

“So we really appeal to all world leaders: stop using lockdown as your primary control method. Develop better systems to do it. Work together and learn from each other.”

Your message is timely. In a world first, several health experts from around the world came together to call for an end to coronavirus lockdowns earlier this week.

They created a petition, called the Great Barrington Declaration, which said the lockdowns were doing “irreparable damage.”

“As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists, we have serious concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of prevailing COVID-19 policies, and we recommend an approach we call Focused Protection,” the petition reads.

“The current lockdown policies are producing devastating public health effects in the short and long term.”

The petition has had 12,000 signatures so far.

It was written by Sunetra Gupta of Oxford University, Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, and Martin Kulldorff of Harvard University.

When asked about the petition, Dr. Nabarro only said good things. “Really important point from Professor Gupta,” he said.