Members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza group, (SPI-B), expressed regret about their role in the use of psychology in the governments COVID response. They state, in a new book, 'A State of Fear' by Laura Dodsworth, that; "in March 2020, the government were 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". Members of the SPI-B group warned ministers that they needed to increase the perceived level of personal threat from COVID because a substantial number of people still did not feel sufficiently personally threatened. They admit using covert psychological manipulation techniques to coerce the public into total obedience and compliance. The group, who deliberately amplified the fear, now admit that it was unethical and totalitarian... And still the government use psychological manipulation to amplify the fear...
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It is one mind game in order to be able to carry on with the same mind game.