On 22 April, the head of the WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, made the strong recommendation that countries with increasing cases of the coronavirus continue lockdowns to contain the spread.
As the BBC reported at that time, Dr. Ghebreyesus said, “Lifting lockdowns could cause infections to reignite.” He added, “There is no question that stay-at-home orders and other physical distancing measures have successfully suppressed transmission in many countries.”
The WHO’s recommendations were part of the “expert” advise used by political leaders to defend the curbing of personal freedoms and what has become the devastating consequences of the unprecedented shutdown of the global economy.
Yet, recently, two leading WHO officials made it clear that it’s time to end the harsh lockdowns, which are doing more harm than good.
On 8 October, Dr. David Nabarro, the WHO’s Special Envoy on COVID-19, said in an interview that political leaders have been too extreme in using lockdowns to try to slow the spread:
“We really do have to learn how to coexist with this virus in a way that doesn’t require constant closing down of economies but at the same time in a way that is not associated with high levels of suffering and death it’s what we’re calling the middle path and the middle path is about being able to hold the virus at bay whilst keeping economic and social life going and we think it’s doable.”
Responding to a question about how governments around the world have been responding to the coronavirus, Dr. Nabarro said, “The reality is it’s been a remarkably uncoordinated and disjointed response.”
As for politicians using lockdowns as the primary way of dealing with the virus, Dr. Nabarro made these points:
- “We in the World Health Organization 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 reorganize regroup rebalance your resources protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it.”
- Just look what’s happened to the tourism industry for example in the Caribbean or in the Pacific because people aren’t taking the 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 – lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer.”
WHO Doubles Down Against Lockdown
Last Friday, Dr. Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergency Program, appearing at a briefing in Geneva regarding the organization’s report of a record one-day increase in coronavirus cases worldwide, told attendees, “What we want to try and avoid is these massive lockdowns that are so punishing to communities, to society and to everything else.”
Dr. Ryan added, “We don’t want to flip from no cases, everything’s open; a few cases, everything shuts down again because that’s exactly the sort of scenario we want to try and avoid. What we really need to focus on is ensuring that as cases come back – and they will and do come back… we need to make sure that we’re also focusing not just on restrictive measures.”
He concluded by stating, “We shouldn’t accept that in every country the return of cases should be seen as an immediate return of the need for lock-down restrictions at a national level. There are many things that can be done between those two points and we should make every effort to do so in order to keep our social and economic lives open and particularly schools and other vital services.”
TREND FORECAST: As we noted at the onset of the COVID War, the lockdown strategies and numerous rule books of regulations being imposed on the public had been done without the support of hard scientific data.
And, just as with all the other wars of destruction politicians launch that cost trillions and kill millions, we warned there was no discussion of the implications of their launching the COVID War and that they had no exit strategy.
The results are now becoming evident to even those blindsided by their actions: millions will be killed and trillions will be lost fighting a war that should have never been started.