The United Kingdom and other governments around the world used covert psychological methods during the COVID-19 pandemic to manipulate and control the public, says filmmaker and author Laura Dodsworth. In the course of the investigation for her book, “A State of Fear: How the UK Government Weaponized Fear During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Dodsworth said she found that the UK government’s “nudge” unit purposefully deployed fear to make the public comply with things such as extended lockdowns and vaccinations. “What’s worried me is that people can be persuaded to follow such draconian rules and can be frightened to such a degree that they will do almost anything,” Dodsworth said in a March 19 interview for EpochTV’s American Thought Leaders program. “Fear of an infection in a pandemic is natural. … But it was put on steroids by the government’s handling of it,” she said. After researching the virus and understanding the various risk levels based on age …
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