PCR test 52–3, 158–9, 272
Test and Trace 87–8, 93, 148–9
thermal scanning 224
third wave 48, 152
threats
and Biderman’s Chart of
Coercion 143
elevated through advertising 117
existential threats 84
in government material 12, 243
invasive testing feels like a 93
‘killing grannies’ 86
and masks 113
perceptions of 47, 98
personal threat perception 104–5, 146
unequal 90
Thurber, James 214–15
tier restrictions 155
Tiktok 17, 19
Times, The 52, 72
Toronto Star 65
torture 46, 51, 117, 141, 223
totalitarianism 41–56, 70, 94, 198, 261
Townsend, Ellen 107, 184–5, 193
Track and Trace 87–8, 93, 148–9
trade-offs, measuring 148 see also
cost-benefit analysis
transparency 90, 91, 93, 267
tribalism 68, 183–4
trolls 74, 139, 252, 256
Trump, Donald 40
77th Brigade 73
campaigns 139, 256
dissenters denounced on 181–2
fake accounts 20
first appearance of Covid on 17
lack of scientific debate on 185
misinformation 154
Online Harms Bill 138
Piers Morgan 27
and shallow thinking 252
vaccine information 134
tyranny 218–28
Ullum, Henrik 188–90
uncertainty 90, 116, 117, 201
unconscious forces 213–15, 244
Unherd 113–14, 191
universities 174, 188
University College London (UCL) 86
Urban Dictionary 106
US 44, 45, 137, 188, 240
U-turns 92–3, 116
vaccine certification 53–4, 111, 206, 210, 247–8, 249–50
vaccine hesitancy 184, 245
vaccines
anti-vaccine information 72–3, 87, 135, 138, 184
behavioural science 87, 88
bodily sovereignty 53
celebrity promotion 137
encouraging take-up in ethnic minorities 128–9
fact-checking 133–4
informed consent 132
and the language of coercive control 245–50
mandating of 53–4, 248–9
propaganda 128–32
and the ‘return to normality’ 48, 132
safety studies 87, 132
scepticism about 184, 245
side effects 133, 135
Yellow Card data 133
Vallance, Patrick 3, 25, 99, 147, 156, 212
variants 48, 116–17, 175
VE Day 172
verification 18, 21, 24, 255–6
video calling 83
videos 17–19, 72, 128–9, 130–7
Vine, Jeremy 48
viral fear 21
virtuous self-image 102
voter support 67–8
Wagner, Adam 223, 226
Wales 112
Wales Online 35
war analogies 40–1, 104
‘war on terror’ 39–40, 47, 55, 128
Ward, Sean 203–4
wartime language 12
Watson, John 206
Weibo 19
‘wellbeing’ frameworks 265
Wellcome Trust 212
Wenhong Xhang 154
Weregild/blood money 109, 222
Weston, Bruce 73
When Prophecy Fails 200–1
whistleblowers 125, 131, 202
Whitty, Chris 25, 112, 147, 156, 173, 239, 274
WHO (World Health Organization) fatality rates 269 lockdown 21, 163, 272, 275 on masks 112 official guidance 72 testing programmes 158 vaccines 247
Winter Willow 162
Wittkowski, Knut 186–8
Wojcicki, Susan 186
Wood, Simon 274, 276
Woolhouse, Mark 173
Wootton, Dan 25
World Economic Forum (WEF) 211–12, 247
worship 49, 173–4
wrongful conviction 220–1
Wuhan 21, 206
Xi Jinping 20
yellow and black signage 105, 108, 118, 264
Yonder 120
Yorkshire Evening Post 34
YouGov 79–80, 249
YouTube 72, 181, 186–7, 191
Zahawi, Nadhim 111
zero Covid 48
Zinc Network 138, 139
zombie references 18
zoos 193
