Not here in lockdown-loving Canada where 5 deaths a day is enough for us to prep our teachers and parents for a school shutdown and stay at home order.
Depends what the purpose of the lockdown is surely?
Is it to protect the health services? What do the hospital admissions look like at the moment?
Nowhere on earth without significantly higher than normal nitric oxide pollution has had overrun hospitals.
I'm willing to bet money that Twitter will start censoring posts from the WHO on this subject (at least until November 3rd).
This is... a not particularly helpful framing. The context was a proposed return to an extremely strict lockdown in Ireland, from current partial lockdown conditions, and the envoy isn't alone in viewing it as premature under the circumstances. What he actually said was that hard lockdown should not be the primary means of control unless it's required to protect the health system, which I think is a fairly uncontroversial standpoint.
I would have used an alternate source if one was available but this is the first hit that came up when searching for the verbatim quote from The Spectator's video interview which it also links to here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8oH7cBxgwE&feature=youtu.be...