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Dems and Media Remain Silent About WHO's Change on Lockdowns
Townhall.com ^ | October 10, 2020 | Brad Slager

Posted on 10/12/2020 5:07:58 AM PDT by Kaslin

You would expect that after months of insistence that we, as a COVID-afflicted nation, adhere to the words of medical experts in general and specifically the guidance from the World Health Organization, there would be more than scant coverage of the latest announcement from WHO. Their spokesman, Dr. David Nabarro, has come forward to make a stern announcement to the leaders of the nations across the globe to back away from the practice of locking down our societies.

Nabarro was rather direct in telling the politicians to stop using the lockdown method as a means to control the pandemic within their nations. “Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer. We in the World Health Organisation do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus.’’

The closing of our society in numerous areas has become a point of contention in many states, becoming a political factor in a time when many politicians have been seen using the pandemic as means of flexing some of their unelected political muscle. Just in Michigan we are seeing a state Supreme Court striking down the numerous executive orders Governor Gretchen Whitmer has imposed on her citizens. The very fact that she has instituted over 160 of these orders is a telling statistic.

The glaring aspect of this recent announcement is that the WHO has been regarded as the gold standard in medical advice dispensed to address the global outbreak. WHO has been used as cudgel with President Trump, who has correctly noted how that organization has been showing a high level of fealty towards the communist Chinese leadership – a glaring issue considering ground-zero for the outbreak was in Wuhan – and that they have also been contradictory at times in its advice. Case in point is WHO now turning 180 degree with their lockdown advice. 

It has to be regarded as rather revealing how the politicians and the press members who had relied so heavily on the words of WHO doctors are now completely silent as they contradict the desire of these same players to keep us in a state of social and economic paralysis. Just look at the ever-shifting standards that were forwarded in order for us to reopen the country. First we needed a two-week down time to halt the spread, then that became a need to stay quarantined until the infection curve was flattened. Next was the call to blunt the second wave of infections.

Each one of these professed thresholds was met with scientific data, and each time the pandemic goalposts were moved. Next the call came for the need to have a vaccine, and when it was announced that a few could be soon arriving the "experts’’ have called for those to be submitted to lengthy testing and trials before we can open our doors once again. What is apparent is the desire by many leaders and news delivery agents to keep us under control.

The unintended reality that gets revealed is that those shrill voices calling for us to adhere to the sacrosanct words of the medical experts are now in a position of opposition to those same physicians. Look at the reaction to President Trump’s positive test and how he quickly returned to work. The media scorched his personal care physicians, they began calling doctors who cleared him as "liars" who cannot be trusted, and have even gone to the lengths of saying a major medical facility should be defunded, all over political hackery on their part. 

After months of insistence that doctors be listened to, suddenly in October, medical experts are now viewed suspiciously and should be ignored. Little surprise then in this feverishly reactive time that the WHO recommendation to suspend lockdowns is also roundly ignored.

It became deeply ironic that the people who were barking the most about the administration and conservatives politicizing the pandemic are those same who now reveal themselves to be driven more by politics than the advice of medical experts. If only there was a vaccine for their TDS affliction.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; who
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1 posted on 10/12/2020 5:07:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

WHO is now expert again?


2 posted on 10/12/2020 5:13:22 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Kaslin

The less wealthy and self-hating countries of the world are discovering that the prevention is far worse than the disease.


3 posted on 10/12/2020 5:16:29 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: Kaslin
But, but, but I thought we were to listen to the science.........🤪
4 posted on 10/12/2020 5:19:17 AM PDT by Lockbox
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To: Kaslin

Well, the WHO is late to this party, but it can’t please the D’s.


5 posted on 10/12/2020 5:21:17 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: cuban leaf

I keep asking myself: How many times can the “experts” be wrong and why are they still considered experts?


6 posted on 10/12/2020 5:26:25 AM PDT by systemjim (Lifetime Lover of Music)
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To: Kaslin

A through 14-day lockdown probably should have been done throughout the Western World in early April.

The prolonged partial shutdowns have created prolonged misery.


7 posted on 10/12/2020 5:27:36 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: systemjim

Our experts are experts at venearal disease tracking and control.


8 posted on 10/12/2020 5:28:57 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: cuban leaf

The Dem Marxists are about power and control. “Science” is just another tool for their drive to rule no matter what, even if it is to rule over the burning ruins of Western society.


9 posted on 10/12/2020 5:29:58 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Kaslin

Does it help the Communist Party?


10 posted on 10/12/2020 5:33:17 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Kaslin

>>Their spokesman, Dr. David Nabarro, has come forward to make a stern announcement to the leaders of the nations across the globe to back away from the practice of locking down our societies.
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>>Nabarro was rather direct in telling the politicians to stop using the lockdown method as a means to control the pandemic within their nations. “Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer. We in the World Health Organisation do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus.’’

Prior to GatesVirus this was ALWAYS WHO’s position, that once a pandemic had widely spread, lockdowns wouldn’t do much and the lockdowns presented their own negatives with regards to travel, economy, and health.


11 posted on 10/12/2020 5:38:35 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: Brian Griffin

A true lockdown would have meant dealing with sick elderly where they were already being diagnosed rather than using them as super spreaders stuffing them into elderly care centers.


12 posted on 10/12/2020 5:40:05 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: Truth29

Marxists will tell you that Marxism explains science. Really.

Karl Marx is their god.


13 posted on 10/12/2020 5:40:57 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: systemjim

Do they still teach “the boy who cried wolf” in grade school? They need to.


14 posted on 10/12/2020 5:55:52 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Kaslin
This is so obvious! It’s not even freaking funny anymore! They honestly believe Biden is going to win so that they can open up the economy for him! Trump should’ve gone with his instincts and outside expertise advice! I kept saying over and over this with the biggest hair on fire hoax perpetrated on this country and this president. It was a coordinated effort and now he might end up paying for it on election day! I pray not though... I pray not!🙏🏻
15 posted on 10/12/2020 6:00:55 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Kaslin

Does this mean that Twitter and Facebook will start censoring all pro-lockdown posts?


16 posted on 10/12/2020 6:09:08 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Kaslin

........Pelosi, Schumer, Hillary & Obama forgot to send Nabarro his 5 million dollar pre election check (er...bribe) to shut up!


17 posted on 10/12/2020 6:10:48 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: systemjim

“How many times can the “experts” be wrong and why are they still considered experts?”

Experience is based on lots of poor decisions?

Not that I totally agree with that statement, but it gets a lot of play during those process improvement du jour rollouts.


18 posted on 10/12/2020 6:44:57 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Kaslin

They finally found the blunt instrument they have been looking for to destroy the free market economy - they won’t easily give it up.


19 posted on 10/12/2020 6:59:14 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Kaslin

i just figured out why W.H.O. reversed themselves on lockdowns: they expect Joe Biden to win the U.S. election, and their reversal gives Biden and the Dem governors the cover they’ll need to suddenly reverse themselves on opening the economy after having tried to destroy our country with useless and destructive lockdowns just to get rid of Trump ...


20 posted on 10/12/2020 8:38:00 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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