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Let's see what they said... and I quote:
"That’s why it’s vital that countries are able to quickly identify and prevent clusters, to prevent community transmission and the possibility of new restrictions.
No country can just ride this out until we have a vaccine."
Followed by:
"We must all learn to control and manage this virus using the tools we have now, and to make the adjustments to our daily lives that are needed to keep ourselves and each other safe.
So-called lockdowns enabled many countries to suppress transmission and take the pressure off their health systems.
But lockdowns are not a long-term solution for any country.
We do not need to choose between lives and livelihoods, or between health and the economy. That’s a false choice."
And then:
"WHO is committed to working with all countries to move into a new stage of opening their economies, societies, schools and businesses safely.
To do that, every single person must be involved. Every single person can make a difference. Every person, family, community and nation must make their own decisions, based on the level of risk where they live.
That means every person and family has a responsibility to know the level of transmission locally, and to understand what they can do to protect themselves and others.
At the same time, we will not – we cannot – go back to the way things were."
That was on the 21.08. 2020
So have they changed their position since then?
No.
See:
"We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus,” Dr. Nabarro said earlier this month to the British magazine The Spectator. “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.”
“We really do appeal to all world leaders, stop using lockdown as your primary method of control,” Dr. Nabarro said." Taken from here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/technology/trump-coronavirus-who-lockdown.html
The crucial word you might have overlooked is primary.
The good doctor has added:
"Dr. Nabarro has also noted that lockdowns may be necessary under some circumstances. In addition, he has advocated for a multifaceted approach to curbing the spread of the coronavirus — a strategy he recently outlined in a written reflection that highlighted the importance of physical distancing, mask-wearing, accessible testing and contact tracing, among other measures, to pinpoint and suppress outbreaks."
This was supported by:
Hedinn Halldorsson, a spokesman for the W.H.O., reaffirmed that the pandemic needed to be addressed with such a “package” of protective tactics.
“W.H.O. has never advocated for national lockdowns as a primary means for controlling the virus,” he said. “Dr. Nabarro was repeating our advice to governments to ‘do it all.’”
So, whatever Trump said. The WHO has not said that he was right. Nor are they saying that lock-down do not work or are wrong.
Besides: although germans use the word lockdown, the country itself has not gone into lockdown. Nor have large parts of the US. You know what helped germany to flatten the curve? Following WHO and RKI advise and use several measures, while constantly re-evaluating them.
You might find this helpful:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/19/germany-covid-second-wave-virus?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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