Well we expected the use of Skinnerian “variable reward schemes”.
“Will we lift the lockdown or won’t we?
Yes we will. No we won’t.
Perhaps we’ll half-lift it.
Or we may lift it in some areas and not others”.
Anyone who has studied behavioural conditioning will know exactly what that’s about.
The specifics:
In a part of the North of England that Dominic Cummings didn’t manage to win either for Brexit or the Tories
“Indians and vaccine refusers may cause YOU – yes, YOU – to be locked down!
The government were bad for not doing EVEN MORE of what they did.
They should have closed the border to stop foreigners from getting in.
Now look what’s happened – you won’t be able to drink in pubs and it’s foreigners’ fault!”
Important note:
Both Manchester and Liverpool were pro-REMAIN in the 2016 referendum, and in general elections they vote LABOUR.
Generally
“The “INDIAN” variant may soon become DOMINANT. (No prizes for guessing what the message is there.)
Vaccine refusers are antisocial loonies who all believe in ‘conspiracy theories’.“
