I was looking into torture methods from past wars and ran across this very appropriate quote to the current events.
It is easy to manufacture fear. It is even easier to counterfeit it. To manufacture fear, you actually have to mobilize a credible portion of the populace, i.e. get people outside the administration to buy-in to the fear. To counterfeit fear, you need merely silence those who call fear into question, while propagandizing continued warnings.>