Scientists on committee that encouraged use of fear to control people’s behaviour during the Covid pandemic have admitted its work was “unethical” & “totalitarian”

Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour (SPI-B) expressed regret about tactics

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/1…
Gavin Morgan, a psychologist on the team, said: “Clearly, using fear as a means of control is not ethical. Using fear smacks of totalitarianism. It’s not an ethical stance for any modern government. By nature I am an optimistic person, but all this has given me a more pessimistic
view of people.”

Mr Morgan spoke to author @BareReality who has spent a year investigating the Government’s tactics for her book A State of Fear, published on Monday.
@SteveBakerHW the deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of Tory MPs, said: “If 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.
These are shocking admissions - & more can be found in the just released book by @BareReality "State of Fear" from which these quotes & this story was taken...

How about we simply have the public treated as grown up citizens, where the truth is honestly presented transparently?

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