After a year of pandemic, social networks have become the masters of the clocks.
This is undoubtedly the first major crisis in which this new medium has had so much influence on public opinion and on those in power.
Twitter took advantage of the period thanks to Donald Trump who began by comparing the Covid to a seasonal flu.
The conspirators were in heaven.
In France, the anti-masks were unleashed on Facebook until the end of the summer to mock the barrier gestures and cry out for a health dictatorship.
There were also the anti-containment campaigns waged against the "imprisoners" who accused the authorities of wanting to put the country under a bell.
Then the antivax took over by warning against the messenger RNA of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
They were adamant that this new technique would seriously threaten our genome and turn us into GMOs.
Faced with the power of this skepticism, the European Union and the French government have increased the precautions in the orders, the calendar of releases on the market and the vaccine policy.
Since January, these same social networks have turned heads and relayed indiscriminately that AstraZeneca has unexpected side effects such as thrombosis, even if no causal link has been established.
And too bad if 11 million Britons have been vaccinated with this serum.
On social networks, the precautionary principle (otherwise legitimate) is brandished without nuance, as if the vaccine were more dangerous than the variant.
This pressure relayed by Internet sites and news channels ends up influencing elected officials.
Northern countries then Germany and France suspended the AstraZeneca on Monday.
It is not certain that this tyranny of social networks facilitates the making of decisions so crucial for the future of the country.
But policies are adapting.
Jean Castex finds himself on Twitch and Emmanuel Macron launches a challenge to two youtubers, Mcfly and Carlito to make the communication of the barrier gestures.
A consecration!
