Thu Jul 6, 2023 – 6:20 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The head of the “nudge unit” employed by the U.K. government said lockdowns would be accepted by the population in future pandemics because people already “know what the drill is.”
In an interview with the British Telegraph, Professor David Halpern said that the British public “practiced the drill” of working from home and wearing masks and “could redo it” in the future.
During the Covid crisis, the British government hired Halpern’s Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) – often referred to as the “nudge unit” – to provide the administration with “frictionless access to behavioural expertise,” the Telegraph reported, quoting a contract between the BIT and the government.
Halpern admitted that BIT and the British government used psychological manipulation to prime the population and he defended the use of fear-based messaging “in extreme circumstances.”
“There are times when you do need to cut through … particularly if you think people are wrongly calibrated,” he stated.
The behavioral scientist explained that posters designed by his group functioned as “visual prompts,” meaning that “when you go into a shop or somewhere else, it re-reminds you, it cues, it acts as
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