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Samizdata quote of the day Members of the Behavioural Insights Team and other such ‘nudge’ units around the world need to pay a social cost for the last two years. It’s not like we don’t know who they are. They need to be motivated to hide what they do and who they work for, because people should spit on the street in front of them when they are recognised. They want a ‘new normal’? Ok then, lets give them the new normal they deserve.
– A Chatham House Rule remark by a certain journalist in the last week at a rather bad tempered event. The room was filled with a mixture of nodding heads and a few looks of establishment horror. People are starting to realise they really do have have to pick a side.
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A certain journalist needs to grow up.
Go back to licking boots, pete.
Need is relative, Pete. If that journo wants a society in the model which you seem to favor, then, yeah, he needs to grow up.
Many are tired of conservative “maturity”, and are opting for a new paradigm. I doubt you’re going to like it.
The right wing of the political spectrum is undergoing a rebirth. Out with the Mitt Romneys, John McCains, and Boris Johnsons. In with the Viktor Orbans, Rand Pauls, and Ted Cruzs.
Pete we are done being polite.
The reason this is true is because the Left Made It So.
It is difficult to find any correlation between the effects that covid has had and the measures taken to suppress it. It would be interesting to see if there is any correlation between the severity of covid and the government attempts to scare the bejesus out of the population.
@Samizdata Illuminatus – I can’t find any other reporting on this. Was it a private affair or something else?
So much effort put in to ramping up the fear, and no clue or plan to wind it down afterwards. Nudging is dishonest and immoral, governments should persuade properly, using honest methods.
Agreed, but why just the BIT? Everyone involved in inflicting this unmitigated social disaster deserves to be treated like a pariah, from the local authority enforcers all the way up to the top.
Indidentally, I don’t understand why everyone is using the government’s euphemism, “nudge”. BIT is a propaganda unit, pure and simple.
Yes, it was a private event hosted by a kind-of sort-of think tank 😀
Afterwards! afterwards?
There is no afterwards. This is not ‘over’, the British government is simply using Australia and Canada, to see how far they can push things.
And then, when there is clear pushback, they go ahead and declare a state of emergency. In reponse to the situation the government precipitated.
That little creep Trudeau is, it is rumoured, Castro’s son. Well, if true, the rotten apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Some of us pray for a second Nuremberg Trial, focused on the Nuremberg Code of Medical Experimentation. In which case, there should be full employment for scaffold builders for a year or two.
Nobody, absolutely nobody in the establishment, is going for that.
In fact the Nuremberg convention has pretty much been written out of history.
APL – yes it is an outrage.
The mandates are obscene – they are a clear violation of the Nuremberg Convention.
These are medications that can cause great harm – and they are now being given to healthy young children who are not at risk from Covid (even if the injections were of any use against current variants).
As for the creation of Covid 19 in the first place – no one has been punished for that. Not Tony Fauci, not Peter Daszak, no one.
Nor has anyone been punished for the lockdowns – which did NOT “save lives” – and did such terrible harm, (indeed they have made economic collapse inevitable – I know it was very likely anyway, but the costs of the lockdowns have snuffed out any hope that collapse could be avoided).
Nor has anyone been punished for smearing the Early Treatments that could have saved most of the people who died.
It is very difficult to go on in the face of all this evil – but we must keep putting one foot in front of the other.
By the way – I am sick and tired of Ministers of the Crown hiding behind the “advice” of “experts” and committees.
YOU, the minister, are responsible for the decision. Whether it is injecting healthy children with medications that can do them terrible harm (and give them no benefit) – or any other decision. That is DEMOCRACY – not you just doing what you are told by officials and “experts”.
More generally if ministers (or people at the local level) just follow officials – and official “experts”, and do not seek independent (external) opinions – then democracy is dead.
And it is increasingly the case – and not “just” on health policy, on just about everything.
There is a terror of going against official advice – indeed it is increasingly being built into THE LAW.
Yes THE LAW – it is increasingly assumed, in the statutes and regulations, that elected politicians will follow the “advice” of officials and official bodies.
This would make democracy a charade – a Klaus Schwab style GAME (deception), with elections still taking place – but having no real meaning.
The transformation of the West into a disguised version of the People’s Republic of China dictatorship. Dr Schwab (in his arrogance) may think he controls the PRC – but in reality the PRC controls Dr Schwab and his WEF. They are not really the puppet masters – they (Schwab and the WEF – and the U.N.) are the puppets.
We are NOT yet at that point *democracy still has some meaning in the West) – but, horribly, we are moving in that direction.