"Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer."
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"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."https://twitter.com/JamesTodaroMD/status/1315259081523974145 …
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"Look what’s happened to smallholder farmers all over the world. … 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."
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Very curious about how this will land with the various media elites and trust fund kiddos who took time between bouts of simping for the WHO to chastise anyone who dared utter the word "economy" in the context of COVID
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lockdowns also aren't a thing anyone is seriously proposing at this point, so idk why this "debate" persists. The businesses that are suffering now are suffering because consumers aren't willing to risk their lives for something dumb, not because of govt restrictions.
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That’s great news I didn’t realize bars were back open and capacity wasn’t restricted in most all businesses. Thanks for the update
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was this a colossal failure at the federal level to use the time wisely and assist each class economically? this broad stroke around lockdowns seems like an excuse for this total failure, even if applicable now.
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Couple that with the article about how most spread happens through superspreading and we’ve been way off we politicized the issue and politics is a 2bit in a 32bit world
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We were never supposed to just stay locked down for 18 months. We were supposed to set up the infastructure to reopen safely, but that never happened.
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Is WHO still to be trusted on this matter? They have given terrible advice at the beginning of the pandemics (think: air travel). The economy is in trouble because of the virus, not because of lockdowns. People changed their habits (food, travel, leisure, etc) because of virus.
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And more: is this an official WHO statement, or one of their members giving his personal opinion? Unclear to me, typical of an unorganised organisation.
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