Oleg Koretsky

“Would you go along with another lockdown for a run on the banks, an act of terror, or a food shortage? How about regular lockdowns to reduce CO2 emissions? How about every winter to reduce deaths from flu? Would our fear be deliberately elevated again to make us comply?”
― Laura Dodsworth, A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic

“Effectively, nothing is so permanent as a temporary government measure.”
― Laura Dodsworth, A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic

“There’s a feeling after a year of restrictions that people will do anything to ‘get back to normal’. But declaring your health status to use businesses and services has never been normal. The introduction of a health status ID to access products and services will cross a rubicon.”
― Laura Dodsworth, A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic

“Beginning at Tiananmen Square, the CCP sought to prove that even the newest information technology could be subverted to tyrannical ends, and that ideas really could be killed with the right amount of violence”
― Michael P. Senger, Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World