From the Horse’s Mouth: STOP USING LOCKDOWNS
Channel: Daily Insight
Date: 2020-10-11

From the Horse’s Mouth: STOP USING LOCKDOWNS. I want to say it again. We in the World Health Organisation do NOT advocate lockdowns as a primary means of control of this virus. The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganise, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted. But by and large, we’d rather not do it. Just look at what's happened to the tourism industry, for example in the Caribbean, or in the Pacific, because people aren't taking their holidays. Look what's happened to smallholder farmers all over the world, because their markets have got dented. 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, because children are not getting meals at school and their parents in poor families are not able to afford it. This is a terrible, ghastly, global catastrophe actually, 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, lock downs just have one consequence that you must never, ever belittle — and that is, making poor people an awful lot poorer.
~ Professor David Nabarro, Special Envoy on COVID-19, World Health Organisation, October 8, 2020.

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