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    Default Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists

    Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists


    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainm...ts/ar-BB1gKceh


    "Follow the science"?
    Follow the FEAR! is what it really is.



    Scientists on a committee that encouraged the use of fear to control people’s behaviour during the Covid pandemic have admitted its work was “unethical” and “totalitarian”.
    Members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour (SPI-B) expressed regret about the tactics in a new book about the role of psychology in the Government’s Covid-19 response.
    SPI-B warned in March last year that ministers needed to increase “the perceived level of personal threat” from Covid-19 because “a substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened”.
    Gavin Morgan, a psychologist on the team, said: “Clearly, using fear as a means of control is not ethical. Using fear smacks of totalitarianism. It’s not an ethical stance for any modern government. By nature I am an optimistic person, but all this has given me a more pessimistic view of people.”
    Mr Morgan spoke to author Laura Dodsworth, who has spent a year investigating the Government’s tactics for her book A State of Fear, published on Monday.
    Ministers have faced repeated accusations that they ramped up the threat from the pandemic to justify lockdowns and coerce the public into abiding by them – a claim that will be examined by the forthcoming public inquiry into the pandemic response.
    SPI-B is one of the sub-committees that advises the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), led by Sir Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific adviser.
    One SPI-B scientist told Ms Dodsworth: “In March [2020] the Government was very worried about compliance and they thought people wouldn’t want to be locked down. There were discussions about fear being needed to encourage compliance, and decisions were made about how to ramp up the fear. The way we have used fear is dystopian.
    “The use of fear has definitely been ethically questionable. It’s been like a weird experiment. Ultimately, it backfired because people became too scared.”
    Another SPI-B member said: “You could call psychology ‘mind control’. That’s what we do… clearly we try and go about it in a positive way, but it has been used nefariously in the past.”
    One warned that “people use the pandemic to grab power and drive through things that wouldn’t happen otherwise… We have to be very careful about the authoritarianism that is creeping in”.
    Another said: “Without a vaccine, psychology is your main weapon… Psychology has had a really good epidemic, actually.”
    As well as overt warnings about the danger of the virus, the Government has been accused of feeding the public a non-stop diet of bad news, such as deaths and hospitalisations, without ever putting the figures in context with news of how many people have recovered, or whether daily death tolls are above or below seasonal averages.
    Another member of SPI-B said they were "stunned by the weaponisation of behavioural psychology" during the pandemic, and that “psychologists didn’t seem to notice when it stopped being altruistic and became manipulative. They have too much power and it intoxicates them”.
    Steve Baker, the deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of Tory MPs, said: “If it is true that the state took the decision to terrify the public to get compliance with rules, that raises extremely serious questions about the type of society we want to become.
    “If we’re being really honest, do I fear that Government policy today is playing into the roots of totalitarianism? Yes, of course it is.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by revelarts View Post
    Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists


    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainm...ts/ar-BB1gKceh


    "Follow the science"?
    Follow the FEAR! is what it really is.



    Scientists on a committee that encouraged the use of fear to control people’s behaviour during the Covid pandemic have admitted its work was “unethical” and “totalitarian”.
    Members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour (SPI-B) expressed regret about the tactics in a new book about the role of psychology in the Government’s Covid-19 response.
    SPI-B warned in March last year that ministers needed to increase “the perceived level of personal threat” from Covid-19 because “a substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened”.
    Gavin Morgan, a psychologist on the team, said: “Clearly, using fear as a means of control is not ethical. Using fear smacks of totalitarianism. It’s not an ethical stance for any modern government. By nature I am an optimistic person, but all this has given me a more pessimistic view of people.”
    Mr Morgan spoke to author Laura Dodsworth, who has spent a year investigating the Government’s tactics for her book A State of Fear, published on Monday.
    Ministers have faced repeated accusations that they ramped up the threat from the pandemic to justify lockdowns and coerce the public into abiding by them – a claim that will be examined by the forthcoming public inquiry into the pandemic response.
    SPI-B is one of the sub-committees that advises the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), led by Sir Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific adviser.
    One SPI-B scientist told Ms Dodsworth: “In March [2020] the Government was very worried about compliance and they thought people wouldn’t want to be locked down. There were discussions about fear being needed to encourage compliance, and decisions were made about how to ramp up the fear. The way we have used fear is dystopian.
    “The use of fear has definitely been ethically questionable. It’s been like a weird experiment. Ultimately, it backfired because people became too scared.”
    Another SPI-B member said: “You could call psychology ‘mind control’. That’s what we do… clearly we try and go about it in a positive way, but it has been used nefariously in the past.”
    One warned that “people use the pandemic to grab power and drive through things that wouldn’t happen otherwise… We have to be very careful about the authoritarianism that is creeping in”.
    Another said: “Without a vaccine, psychology is your main weapon… Psychology has had a really good epidemic, actually.”
    As well as overt warnings about the danger of the virus, the Government has been accused of feeding the public a non-stop diet of bad news, such as deaths and hospitalisations, without ever putting the figures in context with news of how many people have recovered, or whether daily death tolls are above or below seasonal averages.
    Another member of SPI-B said they were "stunned by the weaponisation of behavioural psychology" during the pandemic, and that “psychologists didn’t seem to notice when it stopped being altruistic and became manipulative. They have too much power and it intoxicates them”.
    Steve Baker, the deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of Tory MPs, said: “If it is true that the state took the decision to terrify the public to get compliance with rules, that raises extremely serious questions about the type of society we want to become.
    “If we’re being really honest, do I fear that Government policy today is playing into the roots of totalitarianism? Yes, of course it is.”
    Which is exactly what Isaid and raged on about almost two years ago!
    And we must note which party(the ffing dems) went full bore on with it!
    Threby exposing their true nature, true goals and evil agenda.. A fact...
    I'll stand gladly face to face with any damn man alive that says that is not the truth and then spit on the worthless, lying buzzard..

    Any that do not recognize the ffing dems for what they truly are -deserves what they are going to dish out on them, imho.

    FFing leftist, dictatorial vermin...,.--Tyr
    18 U.S. Code § 2381-Treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

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    100% with you .

    But it is not just Democrats . They are simply just one compromised puppet organisation that belongs to the New World Order ( Deep State etc ) --- hearts and souls .

    99.9 % of people have never heard of the School for Dictators fronted by Klaus Schwab in the seventies which has built todays elite army that run a far more sinister Conspiracy

    than ordinary people can even imagine .They have heard of Davros but have no inkling of its full ramifications , depth and depravity .

    This might be hinted at in the Maxwell trial but with at least 190 Governments signed up to the Reset we need something like The Watchers on our side .

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    Fear to control behavior is standard fare for corporate executives. Being prepared for the unexpected is the best remedy to fear. Being around someone who is psychologically toxic is as bad as someone who is medically toxic.
    Experienced Social Distancer ... waaaay before COVID.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tailfins View Post
    Fear to control behavior is standard fare for corporate executives. Being prepared for the unexpected is the best remedy to fear. Being around someone who is psychologically toxic is as bad as someone who is medically toxic.

    But unless you teach children about breadth and depth , flexibility and change etc they simply are unable to cope with the 'unexpected ' .Ever .

    That is why Mind and hence Behaviour Control places so much emphasis on sticking exactly to the agreed narrative and harshly and immediately censoring and punishing those

    who try to deviate .

    Increasingly people respond emotionally to matters and automatically reject anything that suggests new ideas and hypotheses . It is almost physically painful for conditioned

    and compliant subjects to think independently .

    A simple Matrix type of model .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Juicer66 View Post
    But unless you teach children about breadth and depth , flexibility and change etc they simply are unable to cope with the 'unexpected ' .Ever .

    That is why Mind and hence Behaviour Control places so much emphasis on sticking exactly to the agreed narrative and harshly and immediately censoring and punishing those

    who try to deviate .

    Increasingly people respond emotionally to matters and automatically reject anything that suggests new ideas and hypotheses . It is almost physically painful for conditioned

    and compliant subjects to think independently .

    A simple Matrix type of model .

    So what you're saying is that you're "red pilled". Nonetheless, some of your posts read like the leaflets that the LaRouchites used to hand out at the airport in the 1980s.
    Experienced Social Distancer ... waaaay before COVID.

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