HOT TIP: a good idea is to name it after a country with a struggling health system where you can easily get footage of swamped hospitals...
...India is a great example...
...though the country was well down the list of countries worst affected by Covid-19, its overstretched health system provided the perfect images for international TV.
🔥 STEP 4
Call yourself an expert.
HOT TIP: it helps if you have the title ‘professor...’
It means you don’t need any actual qualifications in medicine, virology or epidemiology to be given an uncritical platform by broadcasters...
Job done. Congratulations! With your brand new scariant, you’ve:
✅ Scared the population witless
✅ Prolonged the crisis in the NHS
✅ Devastated more businesses
✅ Worsened the growing mental health crisis...
✅ Stopped international travel
✅ Harmed the development of millions of children
✅ Kept broadcast restrictions and curbs on freedom of speech in place
✅ And guaranteed normal life will not resume..!
Alternatively, you could join Recovery...
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2. Just as we’re looking forward to the lifting of restrictions to our way of life on June 21st - 15 months on from '3 weeks to flatten the curve' remember...
...it is now under threat from the Campaign of Fear surrounding the latest in a long line of variants...
3. The Government, supported by most of the media, is pumping up fear again and drawing on harrowing news from India...
- a developing country, with very limited health system, and few vaccinated -
SAGE committee SPI-B notoriously recommended in March last year that ministers needed to increase "the perceived level of personal threat" from Covid-19 because "a substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened"...
Now, Gavin Morgan, a psychologist on the SAGE team, admitted to Laura Dodsworth @BareReality for her new book A State of Fear: "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..."
"I've gone from being a successful entrepreneur employing 120+ staff to practically bankrupt, and likely to lose my home.
There was little or no support for the company - furlough + bounce back loans nowhere near sufficient, + zero support for me individually...
"I was a major shareholder and director of a large Event Production company...
We had turned it from a loss-making £2 million turn over business in 2009 to a £45million turn over profitable business employing 120 permanent and many more part time staff...
"Inevitably the business hit a brick wall in March 2020.
We spent all last summer trying to save the company but when it was clear that there was going to be no recovery last Autumn, we were forced to close down making everyone redundant...
👇NEW RESEARCH: 8 MILLION people in the UK suffered depression, anxiety, or fear as a *direct result* of Govt’s fear-heavy pandemic advertising, data suggests...
...as criticism of SAGE’s ‘unethical’ psychological-operations techniques mount... [Thread]