Pandemic 2020–2021 and its comprehension on the Web

Abstract

Today, the pandemic has been compared to epidemics in earlier periods of human history. One of the key thoughts here is as follows. Each pandemic "transformed" the world — the smallpox epidemics in America, which destroyed the local population, became the beginning of the development of a new civilization; plague of the 14th century laid the foundation for bourgeois society and the Renaissance. This pandemic has also had such a profound impact on the world that a return to pre-COVID state is hardly possible. This is evidenced by the fact that all the main spheres of social development — the economy, information support, education, the labor sphere, the psychology itself and the goalsetting of a person — have changed significantly and fundamentally. Meanwhile, this pandemic situation in which the world has found itself is unique in the sense that it contains a number of paradoxes that become the basis for fundamentally different interpretations and, accordingly, development forecasts. Today it has become commonplace to list the epidemics experienced by mankind, and the history of the issue provides significant food for thought. However, the perception of the current pandemic is mediated by network communications, which do not always provide objective information, forming alarmist sentiments in people. The article shows how the influence of the Web on the consciousness and perception of users is carried out.