Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, social media and messaging platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram have been flooded with misleading narratives regarding the disease and the vaccine, as well as various remedies and cures, which far from helping, drive misinformation and an increase in cases and hospitalizations.
In a context of high uncertainty, different discourses have also been launched that show obvious inconsistencies about the origin and end of the pandemic. These are anchored in false data or cognitive metaphors to give a false framework of interpretation to the global pandemic.
The metaphor of war
The first of these is based on the metaphor of war. This narrative is that the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus is part of a plan led by a secret group: the ITE, the globalists?, or something