{"id":58038,"date":"2021-05-25T12:44:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T17:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58038"},"modified":"2021-05-25T12:44:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T17:44:26","slug":"covid-and-the-noble-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58038","title":{"rendered":"COVID and the Noble Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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COVID and the Noble Lie<\/a><\/h3>\n

\u201cUnethical\u201d\u2026 \u201cdystopian\u201d\u2026 \u201ctotalitarian\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

These are the words of the British government\u2019s primary scientific advisory bunch \u2014 the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour, by title.<\/p>\n

These scientific advisors presently droop their heads in shame. For these are the very words they employ to describe their own conduct.<\/p>\n

They concede: Last March their wicked counsel encouraged government officials to wildly inflate the true viral threat.<\/p>\n

Only a pitiless torturing of facts \u2014 argued these men and women of science \u2014 could terrify the public into locking themselves in, locking themselves up, locking themselves down.<\/p>\n

The London\u00a0Telegraph<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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In March [2020] the Government was very worried about compliance and they thought people wouldn\u2019t want to be locked down. There were discussions about fear being needed to encourage compliance, and decisions were made about how to ramp up the fear.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fear came ladling out by the ton.<\/p>\n

Millions and millions would perish in agonies scarcely describable, they howled. The hospitals would overflow into the streets, they screeched.<\/p>\n

Only the near-cessation of all public life could cage the menace.<\/p>\n

The halfway men, the men counseling a measured response\u2026 were drummed out of court.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsing Fear Smacks of Totalitarianism\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Group psychologist Gavin Morgan, confessing his atrocities:<\/p>\n

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Clearly, using fear as a means of control is not ethical. Using fear smacks of totalitarianism. It\u2019s 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.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A pity, it is, that this fellow is not a\u00a0Daily Reckoning<\/i>\u00a0reader.<\/p>\n

We would have squeezed the optimism from him long ago\u2026 and pumped in an implacable pessimism.<\/p>\n

It would have spared him an awful letting-down, a massacre of his innocent delusions.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COVID and the Noble Lie \u201cUnethical\u201d\u2026 \u201cdystopian\u201d\u2026 \u201ctotalitarian\u201d\u2026 These are the words of the British government\u2019s primary scientific advisory bunch \u2014 the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour, by title. These scientific advisors presently droop their heads in shame. For these are the very words they employ to describe their own conduct. They concede: Last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15378,29341,11023,7094,302,1426,655,658,31272],"class_list":["post-58038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-brian-maher","tag-covid","tag-daily-reckoning","tag-ethics","tag-fear","tag-misinformation","tag-propaganda","tag-psychology","tag-totalitarian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58039,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58038\/revisions\/58039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}