Intervista rilasciata da David Nabarro (OMS) allo Spectator l'8 Ottobre 2020:
Andrew Neil, Specator:
24:15 […] we
24:19 we sometimes bulk at the lockdown
24:21 because it's yet another lockdown we
24:23 thought
24:23 we'd all be over there by this by
24:25 September uh October
24:27 it also as i said it gets very
24:28 complicated and so on but these are
24:30 quite
24:30 narrow personal inconveniences and and
24:35 of course they can have economic impacts
24:37 uh overall too but we had professor
24:39 Sunetra
24:40 uh Gupta from oxford university on and
24:43 she was implying and i mentioned you
24:45 because you have a global mandate a
24:47 global view
24:48 but the a problem we don't think about
24:50 in lockdowns is that they're very
24:51 nationalistic
24:53 that if we lock down our economy then it
24:56 hits our economy
24:57 but it also means we are not buying
24:59 stuff we're not trading with weaker
25:01 economies we are
25:02 not just destroying our own jobs we're
25:04 destroying the jobs of all those that
25:06 in the poorer parts of the world that
25:08 export to us that
25:09 seemed to me to be a reasonable point
David Nabarro,WHO:
25:11 really important point by professor
25:13 Gupta i want to say it again
25:16 we in the world health organization do
25:18 not
25:19 advocate lockdowns as a primary means of
25:22 control of this virus
25:24 the only time we believe a lockdown is
25:26 justified
25:27 is to buy you time to reorganize regroup
25:30 rebalance your resources protect your
25:32 health workers who are exhausted
25:34 but by and large we'd rather not do it
25:37 just look what's happened to the tourism
25:38 industry for example in the caribbean
25:41 or in the pacific because people aren't
25:43 taking the holidays
25:45 looks what's happened to smallholder
25:47 farmers all over the world
25:48 because their markets have got dented
25:51 look what's happening to poverty levels
25:53 it seems that we may well have a
25:54 doubling of world poverty
25:56 by next year we may well have at least a
25:59 doubling of child malnutrition because
26:01 children are not getting
26:02 meals at school and their parents in
26:04 poor families
26:05 are not able to afford it this is a
26:07 terrible ghastly global
26:09 catastrophe actually and so we really do
26:12 appeal to all world leaders
26:15 stop using lockdown as your primary
26:17 control method
26:18 develop better systems for doing it work
26:21 together
26:22 and learn from each other but remember
26:25 lockdowns just have
26:26 one consequence that you must never ever
26:29 uh belittle
26:30 and that is making poor people an awful
26:32 lot poorer