Government and Mainstream Media Messaging
The best source for this section is covered in “A State of Fear” by Laura Dodsworth. This is for the UK but the same tactics and coercion techniques were applied in similar fashion on all Western nations. In fact, the U.K. was the central hub for these units, outsourced to most Western nations. Hence the seemingly coordinated effect.
In ‘State of Fear’ Dodsworth outlines specific government departments made up of sociologists and psychologists, whose main function was to ‘elevate the public sense of fear beyond the actual risk of C19’. You could argue this is a necessary or ‘noble’ lie to ensure the public behaves at first, the precautionary principle would apply. Assess the impact then adjust. By April 2020 the age risk profile and vulnerable were already known, as well as the initial IFR and CFR. For a new disease with a fatality rate ten times below the last true ‘plague’ (1918 - see IFR appendix), there was no need for full lockdowns of healthy people. Even after knowing the risk was lower, governments all abandoned their existing pandemic plans and went with lockdowns and isolating the healthy and even allowed the vulnerable to be exposed (care home in NY and the UK were ordered to take in people with COVID19).
The UK government was revealed to have used, and admitted to using, groups such as SPIB, ‘nudge units’, and other psychological groups to ensure fear was continuously messaged to the people. This comes down to politician speeches, signage and markings on floors/roads to stay safe, the colors of media to ensure ‘danger’ is always on display, and constant media messaging guidance to the main media outlets (BBC, CBC, ABC, all Western government media arms). In the UK they have a group of media guidance rules run by a group called “OFCOM”, to be specific.
Death – tickers. All governments through the media ensured all news outlets constantly drummed out ‘death tickers’ 24 hours a day. For any other major health issue or emergency, governments always ensure the public is kept calm and treated with respect (this is one of the main parts of most nations’ pandemic plans). We don’t turn on the news in BC and start with “one hundred and ten people died today!” (which is the approximate daily death rate in BC even without Covid), but now suddenly we do start every news day with “8 more people died from C19 this weekend!” For all other issues in our daily lives, the government decides which ones to suppress (like daily car deaths, higher than C19 deaths), or highlight, knowing that fear of death works. For almost 2 years, we have had nothing but fear, fear, death 24-7 in the news. This should make one suspicious that something else is being done rather than just fighting a new disease. Governments in Canada, New Zealand and Australia even told their citizens to ‘not go out and mingle – if you see a friend or neighbor, do not stop to talk to them’, and ‘do not listen to any other sources of information – we the government are the only experts you should listen to’. (Jacinda Ardern of NZ). If a statement like that doesn’t strike a nerve then there’s not much hope for your faculties.
Governments and big tech ramped up their censorship and online cancelling. Many health experts and others who questioned the official narrative and/or data were suspended from Twitter, youtube, Facebook, etc. ‘Fact checkers’ were inserted to any post questioning or not fitting the official government position. Even official Parliamentary discussions (or congress hearings in the US) were deleted off social media if they didn’t match the government position, even though these are public hearings that all citizens are entitled to view/hear. “Fact check” organizations, if you dig a few layers into their foundations, ultimately end up being owned/controlled by the same entities that own/control all social media platforms in the first place. E.g. multiple ‘fact check’ companies are owned/supported by ‘The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’ and/or the George Soros ‘Open Society’ foundation, in addition to Google and Facebook.
Government control of the traditional media (“MSM” or mainstream media) expanded dramatically prior to and during the pandemic. Via the “Trusted News Initiative” (TNI, or Trusted News Charter), millions of dollars have been funneled in to multiple state media source around the world to ‘combat disinformation’. COVID-19 & the Shadowy “Trusted News Initiative” | The Liberty Beacon The CBC, for example, signed on to the TNI just before the pandemic, Sept. 2019. Digging deeper into the source of funding for the TNI, it is revealed the same players behind the pharmaceutical and financial companies are involved. It was already under some control given the amount of pro-‘woke’ narratives that were pushed, and the amount of so-called conservative viewpoints being suppressed. The bias towards woke issues only helped accelerate and ease in to the narrative needed for the pandemic. Any and all widespread protests against government mandates were minimally-covered, and if anything, were always described as being bunches of right-wing, racist, anti-vax, conspiracy flat-earthers, and their numbers, even if they were truly in the tens of thousands, were always described as ‘just a few’. In many instances, protests were simply never reported. The MSM in most Western nations all had funding and guidance as to what was ‘allowed’ to be covered and how, in specific, bodies such as OFCOM in the UK (and other equivalents in the West), all provided funding to and guidance for ‘proper’ coverage. There was essentially zero air time given to any sceptical views or debate. In the U.K. for example, Omnicom funds Omnigov and Ofcom, the government became the biggest funder of media.
The SAGE group used fear beyond actual risk. Leaders were directed to have a ‘single point of info’, usually a Public Health Officer. All countries same delivery. If C19 was so deadly, there would be bodies everywhere and no need to incite fear, but they did anyway. In parallel governments enacted legislation by decree granting abnormal powers under guise of ‘safety’ acts.
Again, this is an idea that most Westerners cannot entertain, that their media is completely state controlled and funded. Those in the West always assume state propaganda only happens in other countries, not here. With the amount of money and influence being pushed from the top layers (WEF and the UN), it is obvious we do not have a free and independent press. If there were, hard questions would be allowed and encouraged at all political briefings, but they never are.
World leaders increased their divisive language in interviews – signaling to the public that the unvaccinated are not worthy people:
French leader Macron similarly indicated that the unvaccinated should not be treated as true citizens.
Most can’t see it, but if you have studied what propaganda is and does, the markers will stand out.
Name-calling, fearmongering, belittling opponents, repeating simple slogans (stay safe), dividing the public, suppressing or controlling any questions, avoiding debate and discourse (see the Propaganda section). When you clearly see these, as used after 9-11 to scare up support to invade Iraq, then you should immediately be wary. They know what they are doing, and they know these techniques work on most people most of the time.
And when media (legacy and social) repeat these without any serious questioning, then you know you do not have a free press. And a free press is directly responsible for a true free democracy.
If CBC joined the Trusted News Charter in 2019 to fight ‘dis and misinformation’, and the government funds them, and the Charter partners with and supports Google, FB, Twitter, BBC, Reuters, and others, who also fund the fact-checkers that back their stories up, then what kind of media do you have? Fox guarding the hen house?
