COVID-19: The Ukrainian dimension (according to domestic and foreign media)

Abstract

The article examines the activities of domestic and foreign media with the aim of establishing the causes, course and possible consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as identifying some features of the counteraction of coronavirus in Ukraine. As a result of the analysis of the content of media materials, special reports of the European External Action Service, it was found that with the appearance of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China, misinformation, myths, rumors and unreliable information became widespread on television, on the Internet and social networks. This has a negative moral and psychological impact on the population of all countries of the world without exception, can have detrimental consequences for public safety, health care and effective social communication in times of crisis. It was found that despite the unprecedented attention of the intelligence services of the world's leading countries to the question of the origin of the coronavirus, the media are spreading different options, versions and approaches to this problem. Today there are several versions about the artificial or natural origin of COVID-19, various subjects are considered that could become a distributor of coronavirus. The foreign media, as the study shows, is quite active in the idea that the coronavirus pandemic has an artificial origin and is aimed at reducing the population of the globe is actively spreading, and those who remain should be taken under strict control. Some peculiarities of COVID-19 in Ukraine have been identified: counteraction to the coronavirus pandemic takes place in the conditions of destruction of the healthcare system, sharp confrontation between the former and current authorities, strengthening of external management in political, economic and social spheres, existence of a number of biological laboratories. US military, an increase in domestic violence. All these and some other problems that negatively affect the fight against this disease are solved during the war against the Russian Federation. It was found that many problems in the fight against the pandemic were laid in the process of becoming Ukraine as an independent state, especially by the previous government. This applies to medical reform, reduction of tuberculosis dispensaries, liquidation of the sanitary-epidemiological service, corruption at all levels of government, the formation of an atmosphere of spirituality and vandalism in the state. The media especially emphasize that after the outbreak of the coronavirus, the world has already begun to change, as it changed after the plague pandemics of the XIV—XV centuries, revolutions of the XVIII—XIX centuries, two world wars of the XX century and more. Experience shows that such global turns, together with numerous human sacrifices, negative economic and environmental consequences, brought with them the powerful development of humanity and the awakening of people's consciousness.