 The UK government's use of Calculative Technologies during the first wave of COVID-19 in England was a unique approach to managing the pandemic. These technologies included risk calculations and metrics, performance management, discipline and control, and a top-down managerial decision making process. Calculative Technologies were employed to create a multifaceted discourse of obligation, entitlement and scale of engagement which directed individuals on how to protect themselves and others from the virus. The government also utilized Calculative Technologies to biopolitically govern the population, creating a distance between the government and the people it was trying to protect. This article was authored by Keelam J. Singha, Tarosha J. Singha, Chaminda Wajethalek and others.