{"id":2235,"date":"2021-05-18T20:58:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T20:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2021-05-18T20:58:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T20:58:29","slug":"government-scientific-advisors-admit-they-used-totalitarian-fear-tactics-to-control-people-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/?p=2235","title":{"rendered":"Government Scientific Advisors Admit They Used \u2018Totalitarian\u2019 Fear Tactics To Control People During Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Steve Watson<\/a><\/p>\n

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Scientists in the UK working as advisors for the government have expressed regret for using what they now admit to be \u201cunethical\u201d and \u201ctotalitarian\u201d methods of instilling fear in the population in order to control behaviour during the pandemic, according to a report.<\/p>\n

The London Telegraph reports<\/a> the comments made by Members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour (SPI-B), a sub-committee of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) the government\u2019s chief scientific advisory group.<\/p>\n

The report quotes a briefing from March 2020, as the first lockdown was decreed, that stated the government should drastically increase \u201cthe perceived level of personal threat\u201d that the virus poses because \u201ca substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened\u201d.<\/p>\n

One scientist with the SPI-B admits that \u201cIn March [2020] the Government was very worried about compliance and they thought people wouldn\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

The unnamed scientist adds that \u201cThe way we have used fear is dystopian.\u201d<\/p>\n

The scientist further confessed that \u201cThe use of fear has definitely been ethically questionable. It\u2019s been like a weird experiment. Ultimately, it backfired because people became too scared.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another separate scientist on the subcommittee professed \u201cYou could call psychology \u2018mind control\u2019. That\u2019s what we do\u2026 clearly we try and go about it in a positive way, but it has been used nefariously in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another scientist warned that \u201cWe have to be very careful about the authoritarianism that is creeping in,\u201d adding \u201cpeople use the pandemic to grab power and drive through things that wouldn\u2019t happen otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the report, another researcher with the group acknowledged that \u201cWithout a vaccine, psychology is your main weapon,\u201d adding that \u201cPsychology has had a really good epidemic, actually.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet another scientist on the subcommittee stated that they have been \u201cstunned by the weaponisation of behavioural psychology\u201d over the past year, and warned that \u201cpsychologists didn\u2019t seem to notice when it stopped being altruistic and became manipulative.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have too much power and it intoxicates them\u201d, the scientist further warned.<\/p>\n

The comments were collected by author Laura Dodsworth, for her book A State of Fear, out today, that explores the government\u2019s actions during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cUse of fear to control behaviour in Covid pandemic was \u2018totalitarian\u2019, admit scientists\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2066From \u2018A State of Fear: how the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic\u2019 https:\/\/t.co\/gD6HFUkQqW
\n\u2014 Laura Dodsworth (@BareReality) May 14, 2021<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When the Telegraph asked the subcommittee for comment on the findings, SPI-B psychologist Gavin Morgan replied \u201cClearly, using fear as a means of control is not ethical. Using fear smacks of totalitarianism. It\u2019s not an ethical stance for any modern government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morgan added that \u201cBy nature I am an optimistic person, but all this has given me a more pessimistic view of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Commenting on the revelations, Conservative Steve Baker, a member of a group of anti-lockdown MPs said \u201cIf 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo I fear that Government policy today is playing into the roots of totalitarianism? Yes, of course it is,\u201d Baker urged.<\/p>\n

The government state of fear continues minute by minute as government ministers are now suggesting that so called \u2018freedom day\u2019 in the UK (a situation where the government permits people to have basic rights is not freedom) on June 21st is under threat because a sizeable portion of the population is refusing to take the vaccine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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