Within the video above,1,2 initially printed in August 2021, professor Piers Robinson, Ph.D. — co-director of the Group for Propaganda Research, whose analysis specialty is organized persuasive communication and modern propaganda — speaks to Asia Pacific Right now about propaganda within the age of COVID.
As famous by Robinson, COVID-19 is definitely the biggest, most subtle propaganda operation in historical past. Psychological methods have been extensively used throughout 2020 to incite concern and panic within the inhabitants, whereas different persuasion methods have been used to get individuals to assist and defend COVID measures resembling masking, isolation, social distancing, lockdowns and jab mandates.
Certainly, propaganda is what allowed for draconian and unscientific COVID measures to be carried out within the first place. With out propaganda and simultaneous censorship of opposing views, little of what we have been via would have been potential.
As famous by Robinson, whereas the usage of state propaganda might initially be justified as a vital means to attain a public well being goal — defending individuals from COVID-related sickness and dying — it shortly turned obvious that this was not the case, and certain by no means was.
Right now, three years in, it is fairly evident that COVID is a psychological operation. For instance, since 2022 on the newest, COVID has been nothing greater than one other endemic respiratory an infection, very like the frequent chilly, but the pandemic has not been declared “over.”
