Tag: Fear

It is usually assumed that in March 2020 people were panicked over getting the virus. But Jeffrey Tucker says that the primary fear he saw at that time was of some extreme response by Government.

Fear is ramping up again. Articles are appearing talking up the threat from Omicron. Leading U.S. scientist Dr Eric Topol, Director of Scripps Research in California, has produced a classic of the genre.

During the last two years, the Government and SAGE subjected us to a deliberate attempt to generate massive levels of societal anxiety, and this will turn out to be a major health problem in the years ahead.

Laura Dodsworth has written a good piece in which she argues that the threat of lockdown "hangs like a Sword of Damocles", 'nudging' us into courses of action we wouldn't otherwise take.

The Government has shifted the public's behaviour by copying the wartime propaganda strategy from WWII when dealing with Covid, argues Dr. Colin Alexander in an upcoming talk that will look at the communication of fear.

The Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor says the widely trailed tsunami of hospitalisations has not only not yet arrived after 'Freedom Day', but that we seem to be on the downslope of the ‘third wave’.

We're publishing an original article today by Dr Sinéad Murphy, a Research Associate in Philosophy at Newcastle University, on the parallels between witch-hunts and discrimination against the unvaccinated.

If you don’t get vaccinated against Covid, you won’t be able to enjoy your life, young people are told in the latest Government ad campaign which nods to the introduction of vaccine passports later this year.

A new Government ad campaign ignores the passing of "Freedom Day" and instructs Brits to carry on wearing face masks and to use the NHS Covid app so as to "keep life moving".

BBC News has published an article highlighting "calls" - just one call, actually – for the introduction of wearable symbols showing that the wearer has a weakened immune system and would like to keep a distance.