Why do world leaders need to stop using lockdowns?
WHO official urges world leaders to stop using lockdowns as primary virus control method. The World Health Organization’s special envoy on COVID-19 urged world leaders this week to stop “using lockdowns as your primary control method.”. “We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control …
Can you believe the data on the lockdown?
In a (now deleted) talkRADIO interview on 6 October with Julia Hartley Brewer, who shared his original video, he said: “Since April the data is pretty clear… This is real world empirical data analysed to check the effect of lockdown, and almost without exception, there is no correlation.
Is it possible to believe the lockdown sceptics?
They curtail people’s freedom and can harm almost every aspect of their lives. If the public are going to support a lockdown, they are entitled to ask for evidence, at least, that the alternatives are worse. In the broadest sense, however, this is very difficult to know for sure.
When do we believe a lockdown is justified?
“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.”
Where are lockdowns don’t work in the world?
Meanwhile, countries that implemented draconian lockdown measures such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy did far worse. Some countries like Norway and Finland also implemented lockdown measures and did relatively well. The Diplomat highlighted this inconsistency regarding lockdown policies when it wrote
How are global lockdowns related to covid-19?
COVID-19 may affect millions of people but a lockdown affects everybody indiscriminately. When comparing global lockdown responses with COVID-19 cases and deaths the results show little correlation between any of these factors.
When did people start believing in the lockdown?
Blind faith in lockdown rapidly took hold in March 2020 like a fire in a haystack. The spark that ignited it was terror, lit by the media’s sensationalist reporting of the “disaster” in Northern Italy, shortly followed by the doomsday predictions from fancy-sounding (“Imperial College! London!”) modelers.
How are lockdowns may have changed your personality?
But while many of the experts I contacted agreed that the pandemic, and the accompanying lockdowns, likely have already changed our personalities, at least a little, they also noted that it’s very difficult to say exactly how much people will have been changed and in what ways.