A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic, Laura Dodsworth [the two towers ebook .txt] 📗

PCR test 52–3, 158–9, 272

Test and Trace 87–8, 93, 148–9

thermal scanning 224

third wave 48, 152

threats

and Biderman’s Chart of

Coercion 143

elevated through advertising 117

existential threats 84

in government material 12, 243

invasive testing feels like a 93

‘killing grannies’ 86

and masks 113

perceptions of 47, 98

personal threat perception 104–5, 146

unequal 90

Thurber, James 214–15

tier restrictions 155

Tiktok 17, 19

Times, The 52, 72

Toronto Star 65

torture 46, 51, 117, 141, 223

totalitarianism 41–56, 70, 94, 198, 261

Townsend, Ellen 107, 184–5, 193

Track and Trace 87–8, 93, 148–9

trade-offs, measuring 148 see also

cost-benefit analysis

transparency 90, 91, 93, 267

tribalism 68, 183–4

trolls 74, 139, 252, 256

Trump, Donald 40

Twitter

77th Brigade 73

campaigns 139, 256

dissenters denounced on 181–2

fake accounts 20

first appearance of Covid on 17

lack of scientific debate on 185

misinformation 154

Online Harms Bill 138

Piers Morgan 27

and shallow thinking 252

vaccine information 134

tyranny 218–28

Ullum, Henrik 188–90

uncertainty 90, 116, 117, 201

unconscious forces 213–15, 244

Unherd 113–14, 191

universities 174, 188

University College London (UCL) 86

Urban Dictionary 106

US 44, 45, 137, 188, 240

U-turns 92–3, 116

vaccine certification 53–4, 111, 206, 210, 247–8, 249–50

vaccine hesitancy 184, 245

vaccines

anti-vaccine information 72–3, 87, 135, 138, 184

behavioural science 87, 88

bodily sovereignty 53

celebrity promotion 137

encouraging take-up in ethnic minorities 128–9

fact-checking 133–4

informed consent 132

and the language of coercive control 245–50

mandating of 53–4, 248–9

propaganda 128–32

and the ‘return to normality’ 48, 132

safety studies 87, 132

scepticism about 184, 245

side effects 133, 135

Yellow Card data 133

Vallance, Patrick 3, 25, 99, 147, 156, 212

variants 48, 116–17, 175

VE Day 172

verification 18, 21, 24, 255–6

video calling 83

videos 17–19, 72, 128–9, 130–7

Vine, Jeremy 48

viral fear 21

virtuous self-image 102

voter support 67–8

Wagner, Adam 223, 226

Wales 112

Wales Online 35

war analogies 40–1, 104

‘war on terror’ 39–40, 47, 55, 128

Ward, Sean 203–4

wartime language 12

Watson, John 206

Weibo 19

‘wellbeing’ frameworks 265

Wellcome Trust 212

Wenhong Xhang 154

Weregild/blood money 109, 222

Weston, Bruce 73

When Prophecy Fails 200–1

whistleblowers 125, 131, 202

Whitty, Chris 25, 112, 147, 156, 173, 239, 274

WHO (World Health Organization) fatality rates 269 lockdown 21, 163, 272, 275 on masks 112 official guidance 72 testing programmes 158 vaccines 247

Winter Willow 162

Wittkowski, Knut 186–8

Wojcicki, Susan 186

Wood, Simon 274, 276

Woolhouse, Mark 173

Wootton, Dan 25

World Economic Forum (WEF) 211–12, 247

worship 49, 173–4

wrongful conviction 220–1

Wuhan 21, 206

Xi Jinping 20

yellow and black signage 105, 108, 118, 264

Yonder 120

Yorkshire Evening Post 34

YouGov 79–80, 249

YouTube 72, 181, 186–7, 191

Zahawi, Nadhim 111

zero Covid 48

Zinc Network 138, 139

zombie references 18

zoos 193