Pandemic and Terror
The Telegraph published the internal messaging of the health team that led Britain’s pandemic response.
English translation of the original Italian article by the nom de plume “Piccole Note” on the Antidiplomatico website.
The Telegraph has published the internal messaging of the health team leading Britain’s pandemic response. And what emerges is disturbing. Indeed, the primary concern of both the team and Health Minister Matt Hancock, rather than fighting the disease, was to find a way to force citizens to comply with government directives. And the solution was rather simple: terrorize them.
Google automatically translates “scare them to death,” but literally it’s more like “drop your pants,” an idiom reminiscent of some of our own expressions that are as common as they are vulgar…
Scared to death
But beyond the linguistic nuances, there remains the unacceptable manner in which the British health team operated in the pandemic storm. Thus Hancock, at the hottest moment of the pandemic wrote, via WhatsApp, to his media adviser, “Let’s scare everyone to death.”
But “the then health minister was not the only one who thought it was necessary to scare people into compliance.
Telegraph:
“The daily diet of statistics on deaths, hospitalisations and Covid cases has been so effective that compliance with lockdown has gone far beyond what ministers expected.
But the problem with fear, as one behavioural scientist said on Friday, is that “you can’t turn it on and off like a tap”.
WhatsApp messages viewed by The Telegraph show how many members of Hancock’s team engaged in a kind of “Project Fear,” sharing ideas on how to “use ‘fear and guilt’ to force people to obey lockdowns.”
Thus we discover that data from an Imperial College report, in line with another study by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), that suggested an improvement in the health situation, for the team in question, instead of being comforting, posed a problem.
“But when the media later focused on another study, made public by Public Health England and the University of Cambridge, which showed high rates of [virus] transmission in some regions of the country — suggesting that this might allow local lockdowns to be imposed — Hancock commented, ‘This is not a bad thing.’”
In the same vein was Damon Poole, Hancock’s media adviser, who in a conversation with an official stated “that not releasing the data [on the pandemic ed.] could be turned to their advantage because that ‘helps the narrative that the situation is really bad.’”
Variants and masks
The “management” of the 2020 Christmas festivities was also left to fear. Thus in the Telegraph, “Boris Johnson, then prime minister, had promised that families would come together at Christmas, the first since the pandemic struck since early 2020. But then he went back on his promise, ordering new blockades.
“But behind the scenes, his ministers and officials were well aware that so many people would be deeply disappointed and would blame the Johnson government for their frustration.”
Hence Hancock’s WhatsApp conversation with one of his aides. “Rather than doing so much reporting […] we can raise the tone with the new strain,” the collaborator suggests. “Let’s scare them all with the new strain,” Hancock replies. Thus the devastating scope of the new Alpha variant was emphasized.
In other, less stormy phases of the pandemic, during which it was more arduous to introduce new coercive measures, the indiscriminate and unnecessary use of the mask was resorted to, no longer designed as a preventive measure but to keep citizens under the cloak of fear.
This is evidenced by the exchange between Hancock and Simon Case, “the cabinet secretary, that is, the most powerful public official in the country,” on Jan. 10, 2021. The two, after discarding the idea of introducing minimal restrictive measures that might have coated the government with ridicule (e.g., a ban on “angling”), agreed that “fear” and/or “guilt” were essential tools to ensure that the population complied with the directives. So they decided to make the wearing of masks mandatory in “all environments” because this would have a “very visible impact.”
The Pandemic and the Terror
The full publication of these messages appears to be just beginning and may hold more surprises. But the material that has emerged is more than enough for some comments.
First, there is the question of whether British Health’s approach to the pandemic is unique or whether it was prevailing practice. The waves of terror that bedeviled the world in that temperament make one legitimately lean toward the latter hypothesis.
And it is perhaps necessary to remember that Terror is a typical tool of the subversive Agencies that use it to destabilize the masses. And great was the destabilization during the pandemic, during which mental problems increased, especially in the most fragile people, such as children. Of course, part of these pathologies is related to the pandemic, but it is clear that the Fear disseminated with full hands by authorities and mass media contributed in no small measure.
But beyond that, it can be said that the Telegraph’s documentation does justice to the many who have raised doubts about the management of the crisis, particularly the method of fear chosen to deal with it. Fear is said to be a typical tool of authoritarian countries. As can be seen, it is a normal tool of power, also used widely in the West when interests that the power of the moment deems essential are at stake.
The laboratory-produced virus?
One could go on, but let us close here, awaiting developments, because, having addressed the issue of the pandemic, the comrades’ counter-argument regarding the birth of the virus must be recorded. If over the course of these years those who suggested that the virus was created in the laboratory have been branded as conspiracists, extremists and whatnot, complete with censorship, prior and subsequent of their opinions, now to say that perhaps that is indeed the case is none other than the FBI, through the mouth of its director.
Not only that, even Anthony Fauci, who led the U.S. task force in the pandemic response, and indeed the global one (in agreement with Big Pharma) is no longer unassailable. It turns out, or rather is confirmed, that he has knowingly worked in secrecy to get the scientific community to reject the thesis of the virus’ artificial origin in favor of its natural development.
As Dagospia reports he allegedly used as a means of pressure on his colleagues the possibility of conferring or not conferring public funds on research and researchers, since he was the one who decided on the destination of these. And he allegedly used such “leverage” to “divert attention away from the Chinese laboratory [in Wuhan], where research on the coronavirus that he himself had personally authorized was taking place.”
Again, these things are well known. If they can be said now, contrary to then, it is only for a geopolitical reason. The U.S. has decided to break the buck and start a hybrid war against China, so now it makes game to pin the responsibility for the pandemic on Beijing.
The Chinese virus?
Admittedly, there is the small problem posed by Fauci’s authorization and the fact that he gave a U.S. company funds to develop a modified coronavirus, through a gain of function, in Wuhan. But in the propaganda game such details will be downgraded to secondary, asserting Beijing’s culpability as the main narrative argument.
It is precisely for this latter reason that all attention is focused on Wuhan, as if it were the only bio-laboratory in existence in the world and the only one in which such studies have taken place. This is while the research carried out in Ukrainian biolabs operated by Kiev under US tutelage remains shrouded in the thickest shadows.
As do those conducted in biolabs located in the United States, the most important of which, Fort Detrick, was shut down for months due to an unspecified lab leak shortly before the pandemic (see New York Times, Aug. 5, 2019 “Deadly virus research gets shut down in Army lab over security concerns”).
But reality matters little, indeed in many cases, such as this one, nothing. What matters is the narrative that can be constructed about an affair. And in these things Americans are true artists. They have already coined the “Chinese virus” formula, which may soon be back in vogue….
