WATCH: Dr David Nabarro, the WHO's Special Envoy on Covid-19, tells Andrew Neil: 'We really do appeal to all world leaders: stop using lockdown as your primary control method'. Watch the full interview here: youtu.be/x8oH7cBxgwE?t= #SpectatorTV |
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Because you DO need to recognise when containment has failed and to use the last resort option. The UK government acted late.
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Wouldn’t expect that from WHO. shame the Gov have failed track and trace.
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I agree with this. Lockdown is an emergency measure for when things are rapidly escalating out of control (I.e. when the government are at risk of losing control). A proper system to test-track-trace-isolate is essential and the UK government have dropped the ball on this one.
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An interesting and really poorly understood point, very cogently explained. Almost no coverage of this particular point so far. Thanks
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Exactly. Politicians and public sector workers don't understand because their ivory tower hasn't crumbled yet. But the poor will be suffering like never before
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