COVID-19: Is This Torture? - Amazing Polly

Polly compares the social anxiety created by Covid-19 lockdowns to techniques of "touchless torture" outlined in the Biderman Chart of Coercion.
https://wickedtruths.org/en/lockdowns-vs-albert-bidermans-chart-of-coercion

Biderman’s Chart of Coercion
Most people who brainwash…use methods similar to those of prison guards who recognize that physical control is never easily accomplished without the cooperation of the prisoner. The most effective way to gain that cooperation is through subversive manipulation of the mind and feelings of the victim, who then becomes a psychological, as well as a physical, prisoner. (from an Amnesty International publication, “Report on Torture“, which depicts the brainwashing of prisoners of war.)
https://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/bidermans-chart-of-coercion/

Amnesty International Report on Torture
https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/204000/act400011975eng.pdf