Completely orchestrated. From the very start...after it was decided to treat infectious disease with political science instead of medical science. Many point to the travel bans as the moment political science Trumped medical science. Travel bans not prescribed under any pandemic influenza mitigation plan prior to 2020, initially opposed as being "xenophobic" and ineffective (true). Epidemiological science knew that once novel influenza virus is introduced into a community there's only about two weeks that any containment measures have any impact, after which it becomes so widespread it can't be avoided...and the virus had been circulating since late-2019.
The moment the pushback on travel bans ended and lockdowns, quarantines, masks started being embraced was the moment the political science completely took over. Another variety of social science took over, behavioral science. The specific non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) of Fear was chosen as the weapon of choice in a political war that was enjoined. That we're still living amidst. Fear. The go-to of totalitarianism ascendant regimes.
Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists
Completely orchestrated. From the very start...after it was decided to treat infectious disease with political science instead of medical science. Many point to the travel bans as the moment political science Trumped medical science. Travel bans not prescribed under any pandemic influenza mitigation plan prior to 2020, initially opposed as being "xenophobic" and ineffective (true). Epidemiological science knew that once novel influenza virus is introduced into a community there's only about two weeks that any containment measures have any impact, after which it becomes so widespread it can't be avoided...and the virus had been circulating since late-2019.
The moment the pushback on travel bans ended and lockdowns, quarantines, masks started being embraced was the moment the political science completely took over. Another variety of social science took over, behavioral science. The specific non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) of Fear was chosen as the weapon of choice in a political war that was enjoined. That we're still living amidst. Fear. The go-to of totalitarianism ascendant regimes.
Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists
UK Telegraph, May 14, 2021
https://web.archive.org/web/20210519003131/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/14/scientists-admit-totalitarian-use-fear-control-behaviour-covid/