Posted on 03/05/2023 3:37:56 AM PST by RandFan
Matt Hancock suggested to an aide that they "frighten the pants off everyone", messages published by the Sunday Telegraph show.
It appears the former health secretary discussed when to reveal the existence of the Kent variant of Covid, to ensure people comply with lockdown rules.
In another exchange, the head of the Civil Service, Simon Case, suggested the "fear/guilt factor" was vital to the government's messaging.
The BBC has not verified the messages.
More than 100,000 WhatsApp messages were leaked to the Telegraph by the journalist Isabel Oakeshott, who has been a vocal critic of lockdowns.
The former health secretary has repeatedly criticised the leaks, referring to the published messages as a "partial, biased account to suit an anti-lockdown agenda."
In an exchange between Mr Hancock and an aide from 13th December 2020 - five days before the government scrapped plans to relax rules for many over Christmas - the former health secretary discusses when to "deploy" the announcement of the new variant.
They are talking about the possibility of the London Mayor Sadiq Khan resisting a possible lockdown for London.
The Department of Health adviser suggests: "Rather than doing too much forward signalling, we can roll pitch with the new strain."
Mr Hancock says: "We frighten the pants of everyone with the new strain."
The adviser responds: "Yep, that's what will get proper behaviour change."
The minister then asks: "When do we deploy the new variant."
Mr Hancock announced the new variant the following day.
In a separate WhatsApp conversation from January 2021, when lockdown measures were in place, Mr Hancock is seen discussing possible changes with Simon Case.
Mr Case warns against making small changes to the rules as looking "ridiculous". He talks about "ramping up messaging" adding the "fear/guilt factor" was "vital". da."
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What gets me is that the gop don’t seem to care about what the truth is. They should be calling for investigations and indictments but seem not t be. Maybe they will if we can somehow manage to stave off election fraud and win the presidency 2024, but even if they do, their “investigations and hearings” usually seem to be more show than anything.
The lies and coverups during covid were tremendous. Here’s hoping they get exposed and prosecuted.
Gut-shooting a few of these bastards should greatly improve the behaviour of the rest.
Yep, they have the choice of “really bad” or just “insane”. I weep for the country I came from.
While I believe our system here is far superior to parliamentary governments, we’re also plagued by politicians that aren’t really representing us - we can’t afford to pay them off, they’re already paid for.
Cue the spineless Republicans.
Interesting. I would get harassed just for wearing it below my nose so I could breathe. Four or five times some Karen saw fit to tell a perfect stranger they should pull their mask up over their nose. I began to despise people at this point.
These people need to be prosecuted in some way. They think they’re masters, not employees. Does the UK have something like a class-action suit citizens can bring?
I have been highly skeptical that this thing exists at all from a couple months in.
As with Global warming, if they have to make data up and lie... it ain’t real.
And I saw the lies in spades, day after day.
But the vax? The fact that something was injected into most of the western world is as real as a heart attack.
I guess US media won’t touch it because of big Pharma links.
Maybe Tucker Carlson will cover it.....
This is a scandal of many of our best professional researchers lying to the American people
We are living through the largest, deadliest scandal in American history, but the elite media refuses to connect the dots and analyze it.
COVID-19, a disease no one disputes came from Wuhan, China, has killed more than 1.1 million Americans and more than 38 million people worldwide. It has left millions of others with chronic health problems.
Because of the teachers’ unions and totally misguided, destructive public health policies, children who were under virtually no risk from COVID-19 have lost at least a year of education.
Many children are suffering from depression and other mental health challenges from the forced isolation and lack of social contact.
Now, it is becoming more clear that much of this pain was avoidable – and the result of powerful government employees protecting themselves. As Jarrett Stepman in The Daily Signal wrote:
DAN GAINOR: MEDIA LIED ABOUT COVID LAB LEAK, AND 4 OTHER THINGS THE PRESS GOT WRONG
OPINION Published March 5, 2023 8:00am EST
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biggest-scandal-american-history
In June 2020 I had hip replacement surgery A friggin’ nightmare with all the COVID restrictions in the hospital.
But it got worse when I had to go to P.T. for a few weeks after. We had to wear masks while doing all the exercises. I literally could not breathe, but they was no way to opt out.
I was already mad, but now multiply that anger X10 since it’s been proven they not only don’t work, but are, in fact, counter-productive. I have to force myself to not think about it.
Yes it existed and no it was never a threat to supplant Delta -- that did not happen until the fairly terrible Beta + Delta = Omicron broke through a month later. Covid-19: Kent virus variant 'on course to sweep world.
"The mouse story also doesn't account for the two-dozen novel mutations (non-Beta and non-Delta) in Omicron; and neither does a re-engineering attempt, which in doing so, they would have patently avoided novel mutations IF in fact they could have figured out, in the first place, how to neutralize the cytokine storm and the 'shattered glass' pneumonia, by taking down the ACE2 and TMPRSS2 affinities.The mouse story is, at the end of the day, a cover story so that the fact that a South African AIDS patient generated Omicron, is called into question (a la modified limited hangout).
A South African doctor discovered Omicron's Patient Zero, who was an AIDS-riddle f@g.
Two competing theories emerge from there: one is that he was untreated, which would put his immune system somewhere short of death; the other one is that he was on PrEP fostering long-haul COVID.
Both scenarios have viral evolutionary advantages, but prefer the PrEP + (the application and failure of) remdesivir, which subsequently merged Beta (almost solely a SaF bug) + Delta = Omicron."
Scamdemic from the start. Yet here we are about to vote for the same person for President again.
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So you voted for Biden? Can’t say I’m surprised with that seeing the garbage you post.
Schadenfreude!
>Covid revealed the strong current of fascism on the Left from elected officials to public health officials.<
Inevitable!
Ahhh man! That sucks rocks! In my area of Florida, people were not at all crazy about the lockdowns and masks. The social distancing people did, no problem. The rest... not so much. I am sorry you had to go through that. I think we are all angry with the whole scamdemic. And honestly, I have a lot of blame for Trump.
I think a lot had to do with where you live. That’s for everyone in the country. Our area wasn’t so gung-ho on lockdowns and masks so things weren’t so crazy...we are in Florida.
“And honestly, I have a lot of blame for Trump.”
That, and his poor personnel choices, will be a problem for him. In spite of those things he gave us excellent prosperity and safety.
Re the Covid debacle, he could do a quasi mea culpa. Not that Covid was his his fault, but he needs to explain what led to his reaction to it.
As far as personnel choices, he need to delegate that task to other people besides Javanka. Navarro, Epshteyn, Bannon would be good, I think.
This is serious malfeasance from a government official.
It’s past time to bring back executions for this kind of thing.
Some of these people have been on a TDS rant for several days now.
Because, of course....the Covid-19 lie was all President Trump’s fault.
SMH
You made me look. You’re correct.
Agree. Don’t get me wrong. I will vote for Trump again but he just has to do better at surrounding himself with trustworthy people...real MAGA people.
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