CRISE SOBRE CRISE: A PANDEMIA DE COVID-19, AS FAKE NEWS E A CRISE DO ESTADO DEMOCRÁTICO DE DIREITO NO BRASIL

Abstract

The intensification of social communications and the “reduction” of distances in modern society represents a condition and risk for the maintenance of social order itself, considering the ease of sharing crises between the different regions of the globe. In this context, the present work seeks to identify the relationship between public policies to combat Covid-19 and the authoritarian conduct of politics, in a democratic crisis concomitant with the health crisis. Social immunization in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic depended on the efficient communication of social systems, in the sense of being guided by information from the scientific and health system, seeking to flatten the infected curve. However, the health crisis coincided with an internal crisis in the democratic political system in different regions of the world, such as Brazil. Through documentary research, undertaking an analytical treatment mainly of contemporary journalistic reports, as well as bibliographic research, we may conclude that in Brazil, the internal crisis of democracy, with the politicization of scientific and health information, dissemination of fake news and federative and institutional crises guided by the friend/enemy code, favored the inefficient epidemiological control of Covid-19