Statement
Lockdowns have never been tried before – prior to 2020 they had never featured in any WHO pandemic-preparedness scenarios. They were first tried by the Chinese authorities in Wuhan; a model that Neil Ferguson of Imperial College then advocated without any evidence of their effectiveness. Dr Michael Ryan, World Health Organisation (WHO) Executive Director, later issued a press briefing saying that WHO did NOT advocate lockdowns to control disease outbreak. In fact, the scientific data coupled with the devastating impact on the economy and the well-being of the public shows that this is likely a terrible decision that should be confined to history and never repeated.