The epidemic is a plague as old as humanity itself, and men have always tried to transpose disaster or art or writing. "An enemy divinity, the devouring plague, ravages the city" , we read in Oedipus king of Sophocles, one of the first literary traces of the plague which ravaged ancient Greece. But we are living in this year 2020 the first epidemic 2.0: the first that affects connected generations worldwide for whom "the virus" was above all malicious computer code capable of ruining the content of computers. Just as social networks had, by allowing total disintermediation and creative spontaneism, upset the organization of the riot on the occasion of the "yellow vests", they are now upsetting the reaction to the epidemic. For the worst and the best.
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