Doctor Yura and nanoworms in medical face masks: the most popular fakes about coronavirus

One of the most popular fakes about the coronavirus, according to anthropologists, is the story of the non-existent Russian doctor Yura, who allegedly worked in the "coronavirus capital" of Wuhan, China and knows very well both the disease itself and the methods of its treatment. The most popular fakes about the coronavirus were collected by anthropologists, having analyzed in their study more than 6 million posts and reposts on social networks and queries in search engines, Yandex.Q reports.

It turned out that from the beginning of last year until mid-May of this year, at least 244 fakes were created on the network, most of them in February-March 20120, when few people imagined the true scale of the pandemic, and certainly did not know how to deal with it. fight. That is why at that time, conspiracy theories of its emergence, fakes that deny the very existence of covid, as well as pseudo-medical advice to combat it, were actively disseminated on the network. But by the summer of last year, when people realized the seriousness of the situation, the popularity of this kind of fakes dropped dramatically, and they were replaced by others - about the dangers of vaccination, which have not lost their popularity to this day.

Among the most common fakes of the era of the first and second waves of the pandemic, as expected, were folk and pseudo-medical treatments for the disease, says anthropologist Alexandra Arkhipova, listing the most popular. In addition to "Doctor Yura", these include "Polina's letter" from Italy with advice on how to treat the disease, or "Doctor Kolosov's appeal", which allegedly also came from Italy, in which he advises "to breathe vodka", In general, according to the observation of anthropologists, advice from abroad is especially appreciated in Russia.

The geography of the distribution of fakes is also amusing. So, in Kazan, in which the mask regime was especially strict, a fake about nano-worms that wind up wearing masks was popular. And in Rostov-on-Don, a fake was spread that doctors were falsifying the diagnosis of covid. Well, of course, it was not without the Chinese, who infect people with the help of "white powder" - such rumors circulated mainly in the Far East and Eastern Siberia.