A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic - Laura Dodsworth (the first e reader .txt) 📗

255–6

informed consent 132, 134, 135, 136, 238, 246

Infotagian 138

inquiries 69, 153, 202, 213, 253, 256

Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 157

Institute of Government 61

investigative journalism 28

Investigatory Powers Act 2016 46

‘invisible government’ 265

‘invisible killer’ 99

Ioannidis, John 151, 273

Iraq war 47, 203, 223, 241

Ireland 65

Irish News, The 33

Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science (NAS, 2018) 83–4, 90

ISAG (Independent Scientific Advocacy Group) Ireland 65–6

Israel 52, 132, 206

Italy 20, 23, 90, 266, 273

It’s a Sin 99

ITV 26, 124, 135

Jackson, Stephen 225, 226

Jarvis, Sarah 48

Jenrick, Robert 129

Johnson, Boris

23 March 2020 speech 8–9, 10–12, 99, 105, 208, 219, 263

attempts to channel Churchill 40

body language 8, 10–12

‘Clap for Carers’ 124–5

and the environment 79

experience of Covid 25, 68

‘lockdown was too late’ 201

paternal imagery 44

populism 27

on the second lockdown 116

vaccine passports 247

journalism

at anti-lockdown protests 50

and conspiracy theories 202

impartial journalism 22

investigative journalism 28

journalistic ethics 25–6

journalistic language 188

journalistic rigour 21–2, 24, 26, 187–8, 256

journalists’ pay 25, 27

political journalists 28

and science 191–2

Judicial Review 225–6

Jung, Carl 213, 215

Karim, Fariha 220–1

Kawasaki-like disease 64

Kentish variant 116

Kerber, Markus 66

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) 149–50

Khan, Sadiq 111, 153, 154, 173

‘killer bug’ 18

‘killing grannies’ 54, 86–7, 106, 107

killing others, responsibility for 107, 118, 175

Klein, Naomi 213

Landmark Forum 196–215

language

BBC Charter 22–3

biopolitics 52

body language 8, 10–12

brainwashing 198

of cults 198, 202, 213

dehumanising 54, 106

intended to bamboozle 108

journalistic 188

prison terminology 53

slogans 105–8

vaccines and the language of coercive control 245–50

of war 40–1

of world leaders 210

Law or Fiction 225

Le Bon, Gustav 280

le Tissier, Matt 139

left-wing politics 183, 192

legislation see also rules

anti-vaccine information 138

Coronavirus Act (2020) 164, 205, 219, 221

emergency legislation 52, 53, 70, 82, 162, 218–28

guidance versus regulation 219–21, 225

Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 109–10, 219

Investigatory Powers Act 2016 46

lockdown 218, 219

Online Harms Bill 138

Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 205, 218, 219, 226

Terrorism Act 2000 46

Leicester Mercury 35

lethality of Covid 47–8, 157, 268–9

LFT testing programmes (lateral flow tests) 93, 159, 176, 272

liberty

abusive control of 142–4

conditional 142

dehumanisation 267

‘justifiable incursion’ of lockdown 69–70

respect for individual freedoms 260

restrictions on 47, 49, 62

sacrifice of 44–6, 93, 266

tyrannical restrictions on 218–28

Livermore, David 157

living with Covid 85

lockdown see also anti-lockdown protests

alternatives to 271–2, 277

anti-lockdown protests 50–1, 54, 82, 173, 203

based on ‘cases’ 159

behavioural science 62

and Biderman’s Chart of Coercion 142–4

China 21

effect on death rates 274

efficacy of 163, 201, 236, 270–8

evidence for 45, 270–8

excess deaths 167

exit plans 80

fear of riots 127

as framework 26

future uses of 78–9, 110

‘getting away with it’ 266, 273

harms of 141–2, 163, 220

Italy 20, 266, 273

‘justifiable incursion’ 69–70

leading to tunnel thinking 257

left-wing politics 183

legal challenges 225–6

legislation 218, 219

mental health 140, 167, 229

morality 183

and the ‘new normal’ 49

non-Covid excess deaths 163, 230

November 2020 116

pandemic planning 164, 190, 254

popular opinions wanting harder 149, 201, 254, 273–4

and the precautionary principle 9

prison terminology 53

propaganda 115

quarantining the healthy 49, 202, 218, 272

scepticism about 106, 184

and SPI-B 78–80

and suicide 168

Sweden’s lack of 208–9

WHO (World Health Organization) 21, 163, 272, 275

zealots 107

Lockdown Sceptics 157

logic, circumventing 146

London Bridge terror attacks 2017 126

longitudinal research 86, 87

‘look him in the eyes’ 120

Lord of the Flies 122

love-bombing 199, 202

Mail on Sunday 197

Mail Online 17, 18, 35

Main Street One 137

Maitliss, Emily 23

Manchester bombing 126

man-made, virus potentially 206

masks

behavioural psychology 111–14

British Medical Association 153–4

compliance 79

dehumanising 91–2

disregarding as soon as

possible 258

efficacy of 110, 112–14, 188–90

evidence for 29, 92, 112–13, 180, 237

‘foot in the door’ technique

110–11

keeping the fear alive 237

mandating of 110–11, 112, 189–90, 237

media stories about 29

non-mask wearers 107

psychological warfare 205

in schools 91–3

as a signal 112, 180, 205, 237

sub-conscious priming 101

Mason, Paul 191–2

Masons 206, 210

mass delusions 214, 215, 252

mass hysteria 214, 252

mass testing 93, 159

May, Theresa 156

Mayer, Milton 266

McNally, Alan 159

McVey, Esther 152

media see also advertising; journalism

avoiding 257, 281

balanced coverage 22, 25–6, 99, 201, 252–3

cautionary tales and case

studies 108–9

Clap for Carers 123, 127

clickbait 18, 29, 253, 256

fear spread through 17–30, 108–9, 115, 187–8, 191–2

future responsibilities of 255–6

government-media-public relationship 28, 109, 256

headlines 18, 23, 25, 31–6

media owners 27–8

and mental wellbeing 252, 255

news agencies 24

relentnessness of 240

suppression of dissent 204

Media Hive 130, 135

Medical Examiner systems 163–4

Menninger, Karl Augustus 6

mental health

children 91, 167, 170–1, 231, 239–40

collateral damage 239

of dissenters 203–4

and government advertising 120

lasting effects on 230–1, 239–41

lockdown 140, 167, 229

masks 121

and the media 255

and the psychology profession 87, 186

rebuilding our 87, 258

suicide 140, 167–8, 181–2, 184, 194, 229, 231, 239

Merkel, Angela 40

MERS 162

messengers, authoritative 100, 137

metaphors 40–1

metrics 115, 146–60

Metro 31, 33, 35, 41

Metro Online 17, 18

MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) 130, 132

Michie, Susan 86, 88, 90, 174

Middle East Eye 126, 127, 202

military 73–4

mindfulness 234, 281

MINDSPACE: Influencing behaviour through public policy 61, 100–2, 103, 259, 260

miscarriages of justice 220–1

misinformation 19–20, 29–30, 134, 154, 186

modelling 84, 151–2, 271, 272, 273, 276

mood congruence effect 102

Moore, Captain Tom 124

moral authority 47, 241–2

Moralisation of Covid-19 health response: Asymmetry in tolerance for human costs 182–3

morality 182–3

Morewedge, Carey 279

Morgan, Gavin 91–2, 237, 261–2, 265

Morgan, Piers 27–8

mortuary capacities 163–4

motivating, fear can be 235 see also evolutionary purpose of fear

Murphy, Naomi 10, 12–13, 83

National Association of Scholars (NAS) 83

National Institute for Health Protection 48

National Institutes of Health (NIH) 188

National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies 9

neighbours, reporting your 88, 200

neo-liberalism 89–90

NERVTAG (New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group) 74

neutralising an opponent 60

‘new normal’ 49, 78 New Statesman 191

new variants 48, 116–17, 175

New Zealand 65, 78

news agencies 24

News UK 27

NHS see also hospitals

behavioural science/behavioural psychology 59, 61, 246–7

capacity 254, 272

Clap for Carers 68, 94–5, 122–5, 199

fact-checking with 130, 132–3

fear of overwhelm 218

guidelines 52

metrics 150–1, 154–6

pandemic preparedness 163, 193

people’s inability to access 167, 230

and politics 67–8

‘protect the NHS’ 100, 105

psychocracy 262

QALYs (Quality Adjusted Life Years) 150–1, 219, 274

rainbows 94, 127, 180

‘save the NHS’ 127

slogans 105

statistics 115

surge capacity 163

vaccines 245–6

NHS Charities 119

Non-pharmaceutical public health measures for mitigating the risk and impact of epidemic and pandemic influenza (WHO, 2019) 271

non-verbal communication 10–12, 91

no-platforming 181

norms 101, 103, 105, 107, 111–12, 122

nosocomial infections 115, 150, 155, 192–3, 200, 273

Nudge Unit see Behavioural Insight Teams (BIT)

nudging

behavioural science 58–60, 61, 248, 258–62

and democracy 242–4, 267

ethics of 100, 103, 104

long-term damage of 131

Patrick Fagan’s essay 279–81

public opinion polls 249

tactics to fight 279–81

Number 10 press briefings 26, 105

obedience, being trained for 205

obesity 54

O’Brien, Neil 181–2

O’Brien, Richard 59

Ofcom 30, 191, 256

Ogilvy ‘Nudgestock Conference’ 253

Online Harms Bill 138

ONS (Office for National Statistics) 25, 157–8, 175, 222

opinion polls 149, 249

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