A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic
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30.www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1261340/coronavirus-uk-hospitalbeds-covid19-uk-number-latest-nhs-response
31.www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9157627/One-six-hospitalpatients-caught-Covid-19-treated-illnesses-figures-show.html
32.www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1388277/coronavirus-latestscientists-government-deadly-strain
33.www.parliament.uk/business/news/2020/february/statement-on-wuhan-coronavirus/
34.www.asa.org.uk/type/non_broadcast/code_section/04.html
35.twitter.com/CllrEjiofor/status/1338903582855278593
36.www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/21/government-discontinuecovid-ad-accusing-joggers-exercising
37.Government Communication Survey 19th-21st March 2021 conducted by Yonder for the Recovery Campaign
CHAPTER 8: CONTROLLED SPONTANEITY AND PROPAGANDA
1.www.middleeasteye.net/news/mind-control-secret-britishgovernment-blueprints-shaping-post-terror-planning
2.www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/24/emergency-planner-manchester-heal-terror-hurts
3.twitter.com/adilray/status/1353677950550495243
4.assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/952716/s0979-factors-influencingvaccine-uptake-minority-ethnic-groups.pdf
5.ibid
6.inews.co.uk/news/faith-leaders-vaccine-mistrust-blackminority-ethnic-hesitancy-safe-842317
7.assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/933231/S0830_SPI-B_-_Community_Champions_evidence_and_best_practice.pdf
8.www.gov.uk/government/news/community-champions-to-givecovid-19-vaccine-advice-and-boost-take-up
9.Optimizing vaccination roll out: dos and don’ts for all messaging, documents and ‘communications’ in the widest sense, published by the NHS in December 2020. Since removed from the internet.
10.www.timesofisrael.com/israel-sees-60-drop-in-hospitalizationsfor-over-60s-in-weeks-after-vaccination/
11.www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-ofyellow-card-reporting
12.fullfact.org/online/foetal-cells-covid-vaccine/
13.blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2020/11/23/the-covid-19-vaccineinformed-consent-and-the-recruitment-of-volunteers/
CHAPTER 10: THE METRICS OF FEAR
1.www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/05/britons-scaredcoronavirus-infection-rest-world/
2.www.kekstcnc.com/media/2793/kekstcnc_research_covid-19_opinion_tracker_wave-4.pdf
3.www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.15.20191957v1.full.pdf
4.www.spectator.co.uk/article/treasury-reveals-it-didn-t-forecasteconomic-impact-of-second-lockdown
5.coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare
6.www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9157627/One-six-hospitalpatients-caught-Covid-19-treated-illnesses-figures-show.html
7.civitas.org.uk/publications/what-price-lockdown/
8.www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/05/16/neil-fergusonsimperial-model-could-devastating-software-mistake/
9.www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-thecoronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisionswithout-reliable-data/
10.www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3563
11.www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)73948-9/fulltext
12.lockdownsceptics.org/the-real-fault-with-epidemiologicalmodels/
13.www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/14288330/Use_and_abuse_of_mathematical_models_an_illustration_from_the_2001_foot_and_mouth_disease_epidemic_in_the_United_Kingdom.pdf
14.www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1388099/lockdown-end-date-uklockdown-rules-covid-news-2021-rules-when-will-lockdownend
15.www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/06/government-modelswarning-third-wave-based-flawed-figures-telegraph/
16.twitter.com/SadiqKhan/status/1284035605203226625
17.cdn.doctorsonly.co.il/2020/03/COVID-19-Webcast-agenda-March28IL.pdf
18.apnews.com/article/8795470456
19.www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-management-ofexposed-healthcare-workers-and-patients-in-hospital-settings/covid-19-management-of-exposed-healthcare-workers-andpatients-in-hospital-settings
20.www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55470496
21.www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/21/coronavirusbritain-vallance-whitty-fear-data-alarm
22.www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/13/uk-records-highest-reported-coronavirus-deaths-figure-of1564/
23.www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/18/analysis-second-wavenothing-like-first/
24.www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9363137/Official-charts-laybare-impact-Covid-crisis.html
25.www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/covid-caused-more-deathsyear-23722724
26.ibid
27.lockdownsceptics.org/2021/03/16/is-covid-the-worst-infectiousdisease-in-a-century/
28.www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-directorgeneral-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---16-march-2020
29.www.who.int/news/item/19-01-2021-who-information-noticefor-ivd-users-2021-01
30.www.theportugalnews.com/news/2020-11-27/covid-pcr-testreliability-doubtful-portugal-judges/56962
31.www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-vaccinelatest-cases-covid-19-patrick-vallance-b1159462.html
CHAPTER 11: COUNTING THE DEAD
1.www.themdu.com/guidance-and-advice/latest-updates-andadvice/certifying-deaths-during-covid-19-outbreak
2.www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/weeklyprovisionalfiguresondeathsregisteredinenglandandwales
3.tinyurl.com/463ueh37
4.Summary of report in The Daily Mail: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9203279/Government-estimates-220-000-true-death-tollpandemic.html
5.https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/static-reports/mortality-surveillance/excess-mortality-in-england-week-ending-01-Jan-2021.html
6.www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/causesofdeath/articles/leadingcausesofdeathuk/2001to2018
7.documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=51861
8.www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/dtac/srb_sept2015.pdf
CHAPTER 12: THE ILLUSION OF CONTROL
1.www.itv.com/news/2021-02-17/no-covid-19-outbreaks-havebeen-linked-to-crowded-beaches-mps-told
2.coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths
3.www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55382861
4.www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandwellbeing/bulletins/coronavirusandthesocialimpactsongreatbritain/8january2021
5.www.bbc.co.uk/news/55669736
6.news.sky.com/story/covid-19-in-tier-4-everybody-needs-tobehave-as-if-they-already-have-coronavirus-matt-hancocksays-12168124
CHAPTER 13: THE CLIMATE OF FEAR
1.Scapegoat Rituals in Ancient Greece, by Jan Bremmer
2.www.conservativehome.com/podcast/the-moggcast-episodefifty-three-tuesday-26th-january-2021
3.documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=51861
4.twitter.com/ClareCraigPath/status/1352516332995162112
5.www.covidfaq.co
6.www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103120304248
7.www.bi.team/blogs/policy-tribes-how-allegiances-can-harmpolicy-making/
8.www.cnbc.com/2020/09/02/study-refusal-to-wear-face-maskassociated-with-psychopathy-traits.html
9.www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-youtube-so-afraid-of-freespeech-
10.www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/m20-6817
11.gbdeclaration.org
12.www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/01/false-hopepandemic-dangerous-disinformation
13.www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/29/rival-scientists-lockdowns-scientific-covid-19
14.assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/961210/S1056_Contribution_of_nosocomial_infections_to_the_first_wave.pdf
15.www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9157627/One-six-hospitalpatients-caught-Covid-19-treated-illnesses-f
igures-show.html
16.www.thesun.co.uk/news/uknews/13636531/labour-leader-sirkeir-starmer-demands-full-national-lockdown/
17.‘Exclusive: Reviews of hospital-acquired covid deaths as ‘basic’ breaches found’, HSJ, 24th February 2021
CHAPTER 14: CULTS, CONSPIRACY AND PSYCHIC EPIDEMICS
1.hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2020/07/peter-hitchens-weveall-turned-from-normal-humans-into-muzzled-masochists.html
2.www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/14/one-year-coronaviruslockdown-did-boris-johnson-take-long-tell/
3.www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-origin-wuhan-whoinvestigation-china-b1802081.html
4.inequality.org/great-divide/updates-billionaire-pandemic/
5.www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/the-rich-got-richer-duringthe-pandemic-and-that-s-a-daunting-sign-for-our-recovery/
6.www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_755875/lang--en/index.htm
7.www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/10/07/covid-19-to-add-as-many-as-150-million-extreme-poor-by-2021
8.www.reuters.com/article/sweden-economy/swedish-govtsees-milder-downturn-in-2020-slower-growth-next-yearidINKBN28Q1VZ
9.www.civitas.org.uk/publications/what-price-lockdown/
10.www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.11.20062133v1
11.www.weforum.org/great-reset/
12.www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-greatreset/
13.www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/ shopping-i-cant-really-remember-what-that-is-or-howdifferently-well-live-in-2030/
14.www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4716
15.www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n556
16.www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n511
17.www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.20101253v3
CHAPTER 15: TYRANNY
1.assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/944823/Analysis_of_the_health_economic_and_social_effects_of_COVID-19_and_the_approach_to_tiering_FINAL_-_accessible_v2.pdf
2.metro.co.uk/2021/02/25/every-single-prosecution-under-thecoronavirus-act-has-been-unlawful-14143868/
3.www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-55034697
4.www.crowdjustice.com/case/lockdownlegalchallenge/
5.ukhumanrightsblog.com/2020/04/21/a-disproportionateinterference-the-coronavirus-regulations-and-the-echr-francishoar/
CHAPTER 16: TERRIFYING IMPACTS
1.assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/957265/s0980-direct-indirectimpacts-covid-19-excess-deaths-morbidity-sage-decemberupdate-final.pdf
2.www.alzheimers.org.uk/news/2020-06-05/ons-report-shows-52-increase-excess-deaths-people-dying-dementia-alzheimerssociety
3.www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-the-cost-of-another-lockdowntoo-high-
4.www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/
articles/coronavirusanddepressioninadultsgreatbritain/june2020
5.Government Communication Survey 19th–21st March 2021 conducted by Yonder for the Recovery Campaign
6.www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/articles/coronavirusanddepressioninadultsgreatbritain/june2020
7.www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/news/coronavirus-report
8.ibid
9.www.standard.co.uk/news/health/covid-pandemic-devastatingtoll-young-people-mental-wellbeing-b900229.html
10.www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/27/covid-posesgreatest-threat-to-mental-health-since-second-world-war
11.bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/11/e044276
12.www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n317
13.civitas.org.uk/content/files/The-cost-of-the-cure-30-November. pdf
14.www.itv.com/news/2021-01-28/increase-in-suicide-related-callsat-half-of-englands-ambulance-services-over-lockdown
15.jeatdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40337-020-00319-y
16.www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30530-7/fulltext
17.www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/news/10-million-peopleengland-may-need-support-their-mental-health-resultpandemic-says-centre-mental-health
18.www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-institute/assets/How-the-UK-is-sleepingunder-lockdown.pdf
19.www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199108293250903
20.www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8846695/Nearly-27MILLIONGP-appointments-England-lost-Covid-19-pandemic.html
21.ibid
22.www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53300784
23.www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/08/tens-thousandshomeless-despite-uk-ban-evictions-covid-pandemic
24.centrepoint.org.uk/about-us/blog/locked-out-youthhomelessness-during-and-beyond-the-covid-19-pandemic/
25.pesquisa.bvsalud.org/global-literature-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/resource/en/covidwho-728827
26.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5801/cmselect/cmhaff/321/32102.htm
27.www.nelsonslaw.co.uk/panorama-domestic-abuse-lockdown/
28.www.stepchange.org/policy-and-research/debt-research/coviddebt-2020.aspx
29.www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/02/12/economy-shrinks-99pc-record-annual-contraction/
CHAPTER 17: WHY FEAR SHOULD NOT BE WEAPONISED
1.www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361287/
2.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/2d0e5df7-cb15-434c-89a5-579c051aa8ec
3.www.bps.org.uk/sites/bps.org.uk/files/Policy%20-%20Files/BPS%20Code%20of%20Ethics%20and%20Conduct%20%28Updated%20July%202018%29.pdf
4.www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9395215/Chris-Whittyadmits-Government-knew-lockdown-severe-effects-health.html
5.www.thedatapsychologist.com/post/crude-and-unethicalwhy-boris-johnson-was-wrong-to-try-and-terrify-us-intosubmission
6.www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-56417014
7.www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/news/10-million-peopleengland-may-need-support-their-mental-health-resultpandemic-says-centre-mental-health
8.journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023120969339
9.emergency.cdc.gov/coping/selfcare.asp
10.www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9231773/Ex-MP-NORMANBAKER-reveals-day-anthrax-released-tunnel-Northern-Line.html
CHAPTER 18: HAPPY ENDINGS ARE NOT WRITTEN IN THE LANGUAGE OF COERCIVE CONTROL
1.Optimizing vaccination roll out: dos and don’ts for all messaging, documents and ‘communications’ in the widest sense, published by the NHS in December 2020. Since removed from the internet.
2.news.sky.com/story/there-will-be-a-role-for-vaccinecertificates-says-pm-but-it-might-not-be-until-august-12256251
3.www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56517486
4.www.spiked-online.com/2021/03/25/what-is-the-point-ofvaccine-passports/
5.www.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/29/government-seriously-considering-compulsory-vaccinations-matt-hancock
6.www.independent.co.uk/news/business/covid-vaccine-carehome-workers-unions-b1821303.html
7.hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2017/05/my-first-epistle-tothe-corbynites-dont-get-me-wrong-about-the-polls.html
8.www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/1970-01/sri-ipsosmori-acceptable-behaviour-january-2012.pdf
9.ec.europa.eu/health/sites/health/files/vaccination/docs/2019-2022_roadmap_en.pdf
10.https://twitter.com/BigBrotherWatch/status/1369272255897812992
CHAPTER 19: MAKING SURE IT NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN
1.www.spiked-online.com/2007/04/04/the-only-thing-we-have-tofear-is-the-culture-of-fear-itself/
2.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/risa.13117
3.youtu.be/_Tc4bl1yZLw
4.www.researchgate.net/publication/340378068_Fear_of_the_coronavirus_COVID-19_Predictors_in_an_online_study_conducted_in_March_2020
5.www.parallelparliament.co.uk/mp/steve-baker/dept/DHSC
6.www.apa.org/news/apa/2020/10/fear-motivator-elections
7.www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3189350
8.link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11077-018-9325-5
9.www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/MIND
SPACE.pdf
10.thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-24/edition-6/interviewdavid-halpern-insight-nudge
11.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201012/ldselect/ldsctech/179/179.pdf
12.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/2d0e5df7-cb15-434c-89a5-579c051aa8ec
CHAPTER 20: THE END, OR IS IT A PREQUEL?
1.www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/25/covid-checks-atpubs-could-nudge-young-people-to-get-vaccine
2.news.sky.com/story/covid-19-vaccinated-people-should-beable-to-meet-up-and-go-on-holidays-says-scientist-12257033
3.www.thesun.co.uk/news/14484775/roadmap-brits-lockdownrules-friends-family-hugging/
4.www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-24/when-willcovid-end-we-must-start-planning-for-a-permanent-pandemic
5.www.thetimes.co.uk/article/people-don-t-agree-with-lockdownand-try-to-undermine-the-scientists-gnms7mp98
6.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23390971/
APPENDIX 1: DATA
1.www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html
2.www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis/covid-19/report-34-ifr/
3.www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/99/1/20-265892/en/
APPENDIX 2: LOCKDOWNS DON’T WORK
1.www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ec-lockdowntracker-24-hscp5q3zzxht
2.apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/329438/9789241516839-eng.pdf
3.www.thetimes.co.uk/article/people-don-t-agree-withlockdownand-try-toundermine-the-scientists-gnms7mp98
4.www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/05/16/neil-fergusonsimperial-model-could-devastating-software-mistake/
5.www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-thecoronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisionswithout-reliable-data/
6.news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-40-of-recent-covid-19-deathsin-englandand-wales-occurred-in-care-homesons-11986899
7.lockdownsceptics.org/2021/03/10/up-to-two-thirds-of-seriouscovid-infections-are-caught-in-hospital-study/
8.www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/03/14/exclusive-borisjohnson-accepts-made-mistake-delaying-first/
9.www.civitas.org.uk/content/files/The-cost-of-the-cure-30-November.pdf
10.www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chris-whitty-blames-poorplanningfor-lockdown-in-bad-tempered-health-committeed5kb3fmw2
11.www.spectator.co.uk/article/covid-and-the-lockdown-effect-alook-at-the-evidence
12.www.aier.org/article/lockdowns-do-not-control-thecoronavirusthe-evidence/
13.www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/herd-immunity-lockdownsand-covid-19