The Telegraph 20210514 Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists.pdf

being altruistic and became manipulative. They have too much power and it intoxicates them”.
Steve Baker, the deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of Tory MPs, said: “If it is true that
the state took the decision to terrify the public to get compliance with rules, that raises extremely
serious questions about the type of society we want to become.
“If we’re being really honest, do I fear that Government policy today is playing into the roots of
totalitarianism? Yes, of course it is.”

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