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On Tuesday, the top headlines on the Drudge Report, a popular US news aggregate for trumpeting the liberal party line, captured the full spirit of the ‘new normal’, which the doomsayers fear is snowballing into nothing less than a totalitarian police state: ‘CDC recommends vaccinated people wear masks indoors again…’ …

Through visceral campaigns, policymakers have deflected attention from themselves by emphasising the risks we pose to each other. Not only is this undemocratic, it has damaged society by turning people against each other. This is by design. For decades, governments have turned to behavioural psychology to manipulate public emotion to …