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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).
Lockdowns have been more devastating to humankind than COVID-19 would have been unmitigated. Sources are everywhere for this. From mental health to the increase in global poverty, we will be paying for these lockdowns for decades if not generations. All the best to everyone out there who is trying to navigate their way out of this hole dug for us
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.