UK using COVID programming to create climate hysteria, says expert

The British government is applying methods used to engineer mass hysteria during the pandemic to do the same with “climate change”, an expert shared from government sources.

Author and journalist Laura Dodsworth Saturday discussed a part of her new book “Free Your Mind” where she interviewed operatives from the Independent Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours (SPI-B). 

According to the UK government’s website, “SPI-B provides independent, expert, social and behavioural science advice to the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) when activated.”

A government fact sheet reveals that SPI-B provided authorities with “[s]trategies for behaviour change, to support control of and recovery from the epidemic and associated government policy.” It was also tasked with advising on “[b]ehavioural and sociological drivers of the covid-19 epidemic”, public responses to government policies, and “monitoring social and behavioural interventions”.

On The Spiked Podcast Saturday, Dodsworth said that one of her interviews with SPI-B members “chilled her blood” when she asked about the government’s plan to “go back to normal” after the pandemic.

“I asked what the plan was for getting the British public back to normal. . .if you elevate people's fear, if you're going to scare them, what's your plan for bringing it back down?” Dodsworth asked the SPI-B operative.

“He said, ‘What do you mean get people back to normal?. . .We're going from COVID into a climate crisis. People have to reduce their carbon.’”

Dodsworth said none of the SPI-B advisors she spoke to had any plans to “de-escalate fear” from the pandemic.

She also shared how the government is using news networks for climate fear programming. A car on fire, for example, might be headlined: “Car bursts into flames on LA freeway in blistering heat wave”, despite the two events being unrelated.

Dodsworth specified Sky News as one network particularly committed to climate programming. In 2021, the network published a report titled, “The Power of TV: Nudging Viewers to Decarbonise their Lifestyles” which claimed that not only are most people willing to change their lifestyles for the climate, but 80% of Europeans encourage media propaganda on the topic.

“The study also found 80% of people across Europe support the idea of broadcasters using content and advertising to encourage people to adopt more environmentally positive behaviours,” said the report. “Of those asked, 3 in 4 survey participants support TV broadcasters ‘nudging’ viewers to think about the environment, whether that’s through documentaries, advertising or increasing the coverage of environmental issues in the news.”

The network concluded that “broadcasters and content creators should put climate-friendly actions by real people centre stage in all areas of TV content” and that “content creators should encourage positive environmental behaviours amongst children”. [Emphasis original]

According to the network’s study of 3,500 people across Europe, 1 in 3 have changed their lifestyles to “fight climate change” because of TV content.

Dodsworth also mentioned another strategy by media operatives, which is to report fictional climate death figures to stir fear.

“We've seen heat-related deaths being modeled, i.e. made up, because you can't gather the death registrations from all around Europe right now in real time and say those people died of of heat. But it's all about salience. They're trying to put the number into your head,” she stated.

Indeed, the same strategy is used by pandemic architects, as told by the creator of Belgium’s flu pandemic.

In 2007, Dr. Marc Van Ranst was tapped by the Belgian government to prepare the country for an influenza pandemic, which meant selling fear of influenza to the Belgian public. 

Van Ranst explained in a 2019 talk that a critical part of the media strategy is to stoke fear by predicting mortality rates, even if they’re within the norm. For the flu pandemic, Van Ranst warned that seven influenza deaths per day were expected. 

“That is true in every year,” Van Ranst said to laughter from the audience. “Even pandemically, that is very, very conservative. However, talking about fatalities is important because when you say that people say, ‘Wow, what do you mean, people die because of influenza?’ And then of course days later you had the first H1N1 death in the country and the scene was set.”