“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 Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus.” “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.”
That is a quote from WHO envoy Dr. David Nabarro. In a video interview in the British magazine the Spectator, he stated lockdowns should only be treated as a last resort. “Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never, ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer,” he said.
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Many people cannot figure out what’s going on. I feel it’s mission creep. We started with an understandable short-term, maybe a month or two, of lockdown. Over the past seven months, the goal morphed into a much broader crusade to fortify every part of society against any level of this new disease.
Elimination of COVID-19 may not be possible. It may never happen. A recent paper, published in Nature, suggests that even in Hong Kong, where compliance with mask-wearing has been over 98% since February, they still can’t stop COVID-19. If they can’t prevent this disease with the tactic many in the USA think is the cure, it may not be possible anywhere.
Fear and distrust dominate when the impulse of catastrophism overrides our commitment to negotiate the risks we face calmly. We should be trusting local communities to devise public health measures and strategies that work for them, not a nebulous national plan. Covid-19 represents a severe threat, but it is one that society is more than capable of dealing without shutting down indefinitely.
Is the cure worse than the disease? To determine this, we will have to…
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Clayton Craddock is an independent thinker, father of two beautiful children in New York City. He is the drummer of the hit broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Howard University’s School of Business and is a 28 year veteran of the fast-paced New York City music scene. He has played drums in several hit broadway and off-broadway musicals, including “Tick, tick…BOOM!, Altar Boyz, Memphis The Musical, and Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar and Grill. Also, Clayton has worked on: Footloose, Motown, The Color Purple, Rent, Little Shop of Horrors, Evita, Cats, and Avenue Q.
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