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Covid Propaganda: Understanding the Communication of Fear

by Michael Curzon
4 September 2021 8:46 AM

It is interesting to consider just how different the past 18 months would have been without dozens of Government briefings and constant Covid ad campaigns. The propaganda pushed by the Government as part of its Covid response is the subject of an upcoming public lecture by Dr. Colin Alexander, Senior Lecturer in Political Communications at Nottingham Trent University, on September 13th at 7.30pm. He will argue that the Government has “more or less copied the British wartime propaganda strategy from World War II when dealing with Covid”.

In a previous blog post, which gives a taste of lecture’s content, Dr. Alexander writes that: “The best propaganda is the propaganda that the audience doesn’t realise is propaganda.”

The public information briefings that occurred at about 5pm each day from Downing Street during the first lockdown in spring and summer of 2020 were episodes in propaganda straight out of the wartime playbook. Rather than being ‘public information’ events as they were so described, they were in fact filled with ‘strategic communications’ intent on manipulating the public to the ends of the powerful. They were carefully staged, choreographed and scripted by spin doctors and other political communications professionals working for a Government that is addicted to propaganda and cannot fathom engagement in public communications through any other prism.

Furthermore, the U.K. Government’s approach to Covid briefings in the first half of 2020 may harm the long-term trust of the public in governance and the various organs of state that are entwined with the crisis. Public Health England, for example. Indeed, Chris Witty [Whitty], Patrick Valance [Vallance], Jenny Harries, et al – by standing next to the cabinet minister of the day – may end up tainted as manipulators-in-chief themselves through their (and the organisations that they represent) implicit endorsement of the Government’s approach to public communications.

Tickets for the event, which is free and which anyone can attend, are available here.

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
3 years ago

Can I start by saying how very sorry I am to hear of the death of Toby’s sister through a bloodclot. I’m guessing as the ‘V’ word wasn’t mentioned she had taken the vaxxine.

My condolences to all your family Toby.

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TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
3 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

Deepest sympathies also from the far north. Huge respect for the work you put in on this site especially at what must be a very difficult time.

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RTSC
RTSC
3 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

Yes, apparently back in March.

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Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
3 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

That shit is never getting anywhere near my arm

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BJs Brain is Missing
BJs Brain is Missing
3 years ago

What this government has done, in fact a better description would be ‘globalist regime’, has pursued a state endorsed terror campaign on the good people of these islands. It has been horrific and truly evil. Some people will never recover mentally, spiritually or psychologically following the events of the past 18 months. If I were a politician or held a senior medical position I would have resigned a long time ago, as my conscience would not have allowed me to continue pursuing the big lie.

Those behind this plan to introduce medical martial law, a bio-security state, must be held to account and face up to the consequences of their actions.

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
3 years ago
Reply to  BJs Brain is Missing

Their treachery must result in the death penalty. This was not accidental but an intentional attack on humanity.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago
Reply to  BJs Brain is Missing

We must fight the lies. fight the propaganda.

Untold Truth About the WHO, Is the Fox Guarding the Henhouse? 
Why the WHO Is a Corrupt, Unhealthy Organization
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/09/04/why-the-who-is-a-corrupt-unhealthy-organization.aspx?ui=1fb065e0c4152b58bd4ed94cf29c7cbfad40307fb723460ddabacd55f3c58b0c&sd=20210518&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20210904&mid=DM972122&rid=1254388816

Next Peaceful & Friendly events: Woking, Bracknell, Henley-on-Thames & Wokingham 
– let’s join in with Worldwide backlash before it’s too late

12pm Woking Saturday 4th September – Town Centre – Jubilee Square. . .

5pm Monday 6th September   
Roundabout (County Lane/Jigs Lane N) 
Outside Tesco Superstore 
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Warfield, 
Bracknell Berks RG42 3JP

4pm Tuesday 7th September 
Henley Bridge/White Hill,  
Henley-on-Thames RG9 2LP  
– Probably best to park in Town Centre Car Park

5pm Friday 10th September  
Loddon Bridge, (Winnersh Garden Centre/Showcase Cinema) 
Reading Rd, Winnersh, 
Wokingham Berks RG41 5HG

Stand in South Hill Park Bracknell – 
Sundays from 10am & Wednesdays from 2pm
Make friends – keep sane
http://t.me/astandintheparkbracknell

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
3 years ago
Reply to  Lockdown Sceptic

Been doing what you’re doing, in our neck of the woods…it’s scary, it’s exhilarating, and it’s making a difference!

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Matt Mounsey
Matt Mounsey
3 years ago

Look them all in the eyes and tell them why you didn’t offer them any treatment, told them only to come to hospital when they couldn’t breathe, pumped them full of midazolam and stuffed them on a ventilator til their lungs blew out.

And because witholding medical treatment in a crisis causing suffering and death is a form of genocide, you can either tell them now or wait for your day in court, God willing.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago

In a self-respecting country, this behaviour in peacetime would be regarded as unacceptable, and criminal.

It’s profoundly anti-democratic, and we’ve seen just how massively costly its consequences can be.

Time to make appropriate cultural and constitutional changes to protect our basic right not to be professionally propagandised and manipulated with our own tax monies.

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TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
3 years ago

I never had much respect for the error ridden NHS, but now I know it is a force for evil. Ineffective, over-manned, actively blocks the small proportion of decent knowledgable employees who might make a difference for patients. Schools, largely staffed by droids in slave to state nonsense, incapable of independent thought.

There has been an attack on the population, by outside vested interests, and we have been betrayed by the state enacted by the people. So the people are entitled to pull the whole edifice down, and create a new state that primarily respects us, the people, who it is supposed to represent.

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gone_loopy
gone_loopy
3 years ago
Reply to  TheTartanEagle

When you say the NHS is evil, surely you mean the government and not the doctors and nurses?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  gone_loopy

Some hospital doctors and nursing staff I have come across since March have been resoundingly nasty pieces of work. It would be fair to say that I suspect with a copy of one of their textbooks I could probably pass myself off as competent.

I still get a twinge of glee when I recall a cardiologist trying to lecture me on “asymptomatic” transmission until I interrupted him and gave him Dr Mike Yeadon’s explanation.

His jaw dropped, he stared at me, frowned, sternly announced:

“I am not prepared to enter into any further discussions with you.”

And promptly marched off with his student cohort following.

One of his team came back to apologise later. He was a decent chap.

The satisfaction was all mine.

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gone_loopy
gone_loopy
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

You do realise that nhs staff are normal people like us? There will be the same percentage of sceptics but they have to be more descreet professionally about it. Its not us against them. You find nasty pieces of work in all walks of life.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  gone_loopy

Manchester Royal Infirmary is such a factory of rude, ignorant, badly informed and trained mini Mengele’s that the very thought of the place makes my blood boil.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  gone_loopy

There are very good, bad and simply self serving amongst NHS staff. They are not angels. Those controlling the NHS appear currently to be manifestly evil. As this goes on, the good amongst the staff will have to walk.

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RTSC
RTSC
3 years ago

It has more in common with Nazi propaganda than British in WW2.

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Noumenon
Noumenon
3 years ago
Reply to  RTSC

Britain had the most all pervasive propaganda machine in WW2 by far. It was run by the BBC afterall…

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago

First of all my deepest sympathies to Toby and family at what must be a truly horrendous time. For all that he has done here and at the FSU he has my greatest and sincerest respects.

Covid 1984 – the only plandemic in history to need its own marketing campaign.

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Smelly Melly
Smelly Melly
3 years ago

Imprisonment Lockdown in October anybody?

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Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
3 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

Nope not doing it again

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
3 years ago
Reply to  Jaguarpig

Me neither. I’m through. Even if they shut everything again, I’m seeing my tribe, and NOT having access to things, has made us find other ways of enjoying ourselves!

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A Heretic
A Heretic
3 years ago

Public Health England, for example. Indeed, Chris Witty, Patrick Valance, Jenny Harries et al – by standing next to the cabinet minister of the day – may end up tainted as manipulators-in-chief themselves through their (and the organisations that they represent) implicit endorsement of the Government’s approach to public communications.

May. MAY? I’d string all the traitors up without a second thought.

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webtrekker
webtrekker
3 years ago

This poster needed an edit …

NHS_VAX_KILL.jpg
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Lowe
Lowe
3 years ago
Reply to  webtrekker

Yes indeed! And maybe other posters could show funerals with “Look her in the eyes and tell her the vaccine killed her son to keep us all safe” or “Look him in the eyes and tell him his wife’s brain haemorrhage was a very rare vaccine event”!

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Aleajactaest
Aleajactaest
3 years ago

“may end up….”

Will end up hanging from lampposts.

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  Aleajactaest

Oh, if only!

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago

It was the obvious propagandized nature of those ‘briefings’ that alerted me to the smell of rat back in April 2020.

A forensic analysis could be interesting.

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Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

It won’t happen

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Monro
Monro
3 years ago

The man who caught covid

Went to a family event in London on Tuesday evening, all ages, handshakes, ‘les bises’, talking in close proximity due to loud music.

All had tested negative before the event.

Today, three positives including some I had talked to

I have had cold like symptoms since yesterday.

Chronology:

Wednesday: a sense that not all was right but nothing to put a finger on

Thursday: minor lassitude (quite usual) accompanied by a minor aching of the bones (not normal). Some sneezing but building work may explain that.

Friday: a developing minor cough and minor headache. Freshly made coleslaw apparently therapeutic. Some cantankerousness at Lembit Opik on a panel on GB News, but that would be plumb normal. Temperature, so 2 x paracetamol in the evening, woke once, otherwise a good night’s sleep.

Saturday: cough deeper but very infrequent, minor temperature. Large breakfast. Walk dog. No further medication after the paracetamol previously mentioned.

I have not been vaccinated, have had BCG vaccination many years ago.

I have believed that covid 19 is a (now endemic) common cold coronavirus since an acknowledged coronavirus expert in China at the time of the outbreak said this on 06 Feb 2020:

‘….my thinking is this is actually not as severe a disease as is being suggested…….There’s a vast underreporting of cases in China. Compared to Sars and Mers we are talking about a coronavirus that has a mortality rate of 8 to 10 times less deadly to Sars to Mers. So a correct comparison is not Sars or Mers but a severe cold. Basically this is a severe form of the cold.’

Professor John Nicholls University of Hong Kong

I am only too well aware of how dangerous the common cold can be; known about for years:

‘Unexpectedly Higher Morbidity and Mortality of Hospitalized Elderly Patients Associated with Rhinovirus Compared with Influenza Virus Respiratory Tract Infection’
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5343795/

So far so good, ‘look him in the eyes and tell him to stop whingeing about manflu.’

I will update

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  Monro

Good luck. I’m just coming out of what was either the worst bout of flu I can remember, or the dreaded covid, and it wasn’t fun. Nor was it the end of the world, either.

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Dobba
Dobba
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

People forget what a bad cold or flu feels like. They aren’t nice but almost everyone use losing their shit these days about a bad cold – that kills tens of thousands each year anyway pre-scamdemic.

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Monro
Monro
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Thank you. My daughter had ‘the covid’, as they call it up here, some time ago, ‘confirmed’ by PCR, but shrugged it off in two days. She has also been BCG vaccinated.

I also think we had a different coronavirus through the North a few years back, very similar deep and persistent cough……anyway so far so good, particularly the chicken soup!

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Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
3 years ago
Reply to  Monro

It’s a cold

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Monro
Monro
3 years ago
Reply to  Jaguarpig

Yes

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gone_loopy
gone_loopy
3 years ago
Reply to  Monro

yeah but people talk about having covid like they recovered from the black death! Most of the time it was like a mild cold not even worth mentioning.

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
3 years ago
Reply to  gone_loopy

Or mostly they talk about it like it’s a badge of bloody honour! I’m talking about the ones who test “positive” and then bray about “having” it!

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Monro
Monro
3 years ago
Reply to  HelenaHancart

Yes.

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Monro
Monro
3 years ago
Reply to  gone_loopy

So right.

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chris c
chris c
3 years ago
Reply to  gone_loopy

Lots of people here had “it” the same time as me, late 2019. Symptoms varied wildly but the one characteristic was the prolonged cough. The other characteristic was that I caught it after 16 years without flu or more than two colds which suggests it was something my immune system didn’t recognise.

It was bad but not that bad.

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SweetBabyCheeses
SweetBabyCheeses
3 years ago
Reply to  Monro

A “family event” like a family-friendly event or like a family gathering? Either way, why is everyone testing themselves beforehand? And if this included you then why are you going along with it?

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  SweetBabyCheeses

Someone at it was old and very vulnerable, I’d guess. If so, not unreasonable.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  Monro

Age? Fitness?

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RichardTechnik
RichardTechnik
3 years ago

I too am sorry to hear of Toby’s sister. A remarkable number (6) of acquaintances have suffered heart attacks and strokes in the last few months.

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chris c
chris c
3 years ago
Reply to  RichardTechnik

Pure coincidence. Mind you there do seem to be a LOT of coincidences.

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RichardTechnik
RichardTechnik
3 years ago

Re covid experiences, son 30 came home from a music event, developed a bad cold and was in bed for a day or so 2 weeks ago. Tested LFT positive twice. His mum, 69 caught it; 3 days later was in bed for a couple of days. Took a few days longer to recover and is about 90%. Living with them and helping them out, I didn’t bother with the symbolic precautions, felt slightly off for an evening but nothing developed. Just like colds and flu always have been.

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SweetBabyCheeses
SweetBabyCheeses
3 years ago
Reply to  RichardTechnik

Well sort of but with tests.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  RichardTechnik

Congratulations to them both. You sound already immune.
There’s so much of it going round, surely there is massive natural immunity in the UK now.
All improvements will be attributed to The Great Sting though.

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1984imminent
1984imminent
3 years ago

Too right that this will “reduce public trust in governance”. I’ve disbelieved 90% of what the government (and the media) says since a little bird tried to frighten us with “weapons of mass destruction”. Saint Boris and his merry men have now ensured that I will never, ever, believe anything government says, ever again; ditto election candidates, when they promise the earth and moon on a stick. The more the government has pushed something, the more false it is likely to be, in my book.

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PatrickF
PatrickF
3 years ago

Understand how Psy-ops work, then reject.

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imp66
imp66
3 years ago

Project Fear is alive and kicking. Watch out for the ‘Mu’ variant next. Be afraid, very afraid…

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Zoomer@14
Zoomer@14
3 years ago

These adverts were truly disgusting and flies in the face of anything humanitarian.

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