30. COVID FEAR AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE
Government Scientists Admit Using ‘Totalitarian’ Fear Tactics During Pandemic To Control People
If you’re told the lie enough times, it becomes part of your reality – 1 min video illustration
GOVERNMENTS WAGED PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE ON THEIR OWN CITIZENS:
Robert F Kennedy Jnr: All they have to do to make people comply is give them something to fear – 1 min video
https://www.bitchute.com/video/wBuK69ECaS39/
Government Scientists Admit Using ‘Totalitarian’ Fear Tactics During Pandemic To Control People
Members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour (SPI-B) expressed regret about the tactics in a new book (A State of Fear, Laura Dodworth) about the role of psychology in the Government’s Covid-19 response. Quotes from various members of the team:
“...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”. “Using fear smacks of totalitarianism. It’s not an ethical stance for any modern government.” “In March [2020]... There were discussions about fear being needed to encourage compliance... The way we have used fear is dystopian.” “You could call psychology ‘mind control’. That’s what we do...”“...people use the pandemic to grab power and drive through things that wouldn’t happen otherwise”,
Another said: “Without a vaccine psychology is your main weapon…”
...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”.
SAGE models were 'too scary' says the architect of them:
Draft of letter to British Psychological Society subsequently signed by 47 psychologists and referred to above (see other links on site)
SPI-B (SAGE) recommendations: 2. Perceived threat: A substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened... The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent, using hard-hitting
Matt Hancock’s use of fear and proposed ‘deployment of new variant’ (Matt Hancock’s Whatsapp Messages can be seen on The Telegraph website behind a paywall)
Hancock wanted to ‘frighten the pants’ off public leaked WhatsApp messages reveal | Evening Standard
28th April 2023 Open Letter from Dr Christian Buckland, Chairman of the Board of the UK Council for Psychotherapy to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak condemning the ‘use of unethical psychological techniques and behavioural science on the unknowing and non-consenting UK public. Among numerous harms are that the use of techniques to increase fear, shame and guilt ‘materially undermined, if not removed, the UK population’s ability to give valid informed consent to taking a Covid-19 vaccine’. It is also important to highlight that there have been serious injuries and death directly linked to the COVID-19 vaccine. Many of those injured or who have died would not have taken a vaccine if they had not been psychologically pressured, feared being ostracised socially and were given accurate information.
It has become quite clear, especially during the last two years of the Covid-19 phenomenon, that the public—in Britain and the rest of the world—has been subjected to an onslaught of behaviour modification techniques, applied psychological terror, and menticide, otherwise known as brainwashing. This has been done with the use of unethical applied psychology. ...the tactics that have been deliberately deployed against us by our governments... have been used to confuse us, terrorise us, manipulate us, and change our minds and behaviour against our will and consent. ...One only has to read history to encounter the use of totalitarian methods of control, using science and medicine as a way to forcibly control people. ...we have been subjected to a psychological attack. ...the politicians put on their serious faces or even cry (as Matt Hancock contrived to do) to tell us how much they love us and are working so hard to save lives, keeping us safe from harm, while at the same time, the psychological operators are deliberately making people fearful and angry at “anti-vaxxers” and “Covid deniers”.
Dr Bruce Scott BSc Hons,PhD
Menticide 101 and the Brainwashing of a World: Part 1 – The Biosecurity State
Official evidence that governments use fear to manipulate the public – excellent resource with videos.
https://stopworldcontrol.com/fear/
Sir Christopher Chope MP:
...has accused the UK Government of using a “disinformation campaign” to encourage Covid-19 injection take-up while being in denial about the treatment’s safety... also accused the mainstream media of “seeing themselves as the spokespersons for the Government propaganda machine” and claimed editorial decisions were being made to keep Covid injection harm issues “under wraps”. ...he had been contacted by hundreds of people across the UK about serious harm, including death, caused by the injections. He said: “There is a propaganda war to say they are safe and nothing to worry about. There has been pressure on staff to take them and for going to venues and going abroad. "My biggest concern is this was a propaganda war where truth was the victim and people were discouraged from using their own judgement." Sir Christopher said there were cases where people reporting vaccine injuries to the NHS were “ridiculed as having mental health issues”.
https://expose-news.com/2022/04/02/mp-condemns-uk-govs-covid-vaccine-disinformation-campaign/
Britain drilled to accept lockdown in future pandemics, says 'nudge unit' chief
Exclusive: Professor David Halpern predicts the population would comply with another lockdown because they 'know what the drill is'
ByInvestigations team6 July 2023 • 6:00am
Britain has been drilled to comply with lockdown under a future pandemic, the chief executive of the ‘nudge unit’ has said.
Professor David Halpern told The Telegraph that the country had “practised the drill” of wearing face masks and working from home and “could redo it” in a future crisis. Last Tuesday, Matt Hancock told the public inquiry that Britain must be ready to combat future disease outbreaks with wider, earlier and more stringent lockdowns. Speaking on the Lockdown Files podcast, the government adviser Prof Halpern predicted that the country would comply with another ‘stay at home’ order because they “kind of know what the drill is”. In an interview given before Mr Hancock’s testimony, the leading behavioural scientist even suggested that the nation’s prior experience made it “much easier to now imagine” the population would accept future local restrictions.
Prof Halpern said that while fear-based messaging in general is not effective, he defended its use in extreme circumstances. “There are times when you do need to cut through… particularly if you think people are wrongly calibrated,” he said.
The suggestion that Britain might be primed to accept further social-distancing restrictions is likely to alarm lockdown-sceptics concerned by the collateral damage such measures cause.
When the pandemic hit, Mr Hancock’s department enlisted the professor’s Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) - better known as the ‘nudge unit’ - to provide them with “frictionless access to behavioural expertise”, according to a £1 million contract. BIT used earworm slogans such as ‘hands, face, space’ to maximise compliance with Covid rules. In his most wide-ranging interview since March 2020, Prof Halpern explained that his unit’s campaigns were devised to help reinforce new behaviours. He said their posters acted as visual prompts so that “when you go into a shop or somewhere else, it re-reminds you, it cues, it acts as a trigger for the behaviour”. The professor said that this messaging encouraged mask-wearing, meaning people felt “naked” when they forgot to put one on.
“Put it this way,” he said. “You would feel like, ‘Oh my God, I haven’t got my mask’. You feel naked, right?” Once the public has learnt a new behaviour, Prof Halpern said: “In principle, you can switch it back on.” “You’ve got the beginning, particularly, of what is called a habit loop: if this has happened, then you should do that,” he said. Major disasters “leav[e] this enduring trace on society”, he explained. As well as knowing the drill, this “quasi-evolutionary” impact is a strong indicator of future behaviour, he claimed. Faced with another contagious disease, the professor predicted that the British public would start wearing masks again “relatively rapidly if they were persuaded”. “They might protest, ‘do we really have to do it?’ [Showing] good healthy scepticism. But once you’ve exercised those muscles, they’re more likely to be reused again,” he said. As a result, the British public - having learnt to work from home - would be more likely, he believed, to accept stay-at-home measures being used to clamp down on local outbreaks. “We figured out a lot more than we did before, so we’ve practised the drill and we could redo it,” he said. “Imagine if it happens, not across the whole population, but it happened in an area, a city, and you said, ‘it is really important to do the following thing’. “It is much easier to now imagine that that city would then say, ‘OK, we better do this, stay at home and wear masks when we’re out or whatever.” The nudge unit chief acknowledged that not everyone complied with Covid restrictions. In early 2021 his team identified that 8 per cent of the population were “super spreaders”. “They’re the ones you really worry about,” he said. While BIT was not behind the government’s controversial ‘can you look them in the eyes?’ posters, Prof Halpern said: “I can perfectly understand why they were put together in the way they were.” These frightening images could have been aimed at non-compliant individuals for whom the message was “not emotionally cutting through”, he suggested. The Covid behavioural science advice that ministers received from multiple sources has drawn scrutiny. Last year the pandemic response and recovery APPG called for an inquiry into its use.
Co-chair Esther McVey MP said: “We must ask the question: was it ethical to deploy covert psychological strategies on the British people?”
Responding to criticism that some nudge unit adverts were “unnecessarily scary”, Prof Halpern said there is precedent for tougher messaging. The frightening 1986 AIDS tombstone campaign is “thought genuinely to have saved a lot of lives”, he pointed out.
He added that behavioural interventions should be debated openly, saying: “It’s entirely appropriate for a democratic engagement to be had.”
Britain drilled to accept lockdown in future pandemics, says 'nudge unit' chief (telegraph.co.uk)
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-professor-nudge-holds-us-all-in-contempt/