Did some scientists use ’scare tactics’ during lockdown?

Scientists on a committee that encouraged the use of fear to control people’s behaviour during the Covid pandemic have admitted its work was “totalitarian”. Members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour have expressed regret about the “unethical“ methods. Laura Dodsworth, author of A State Of Fear: How the UK government weaponised our fear during the Covid epidemic told talkRADIO: “This is the day when restrictions are being relaxed and it should be a day of celebration.