Mediatization, polarization, and intolerance (between environments, media, and circulation)

Antônio Fausto Neto 214 principles of science: “[... ] The health mission is tripartite, it in- volves the MS, CONAS, CONASEM, the Health Department. This is an important thing to make clear. The Ministry of Health be- lieves that this relationship is true and essential for conducting operations, both in terms of strategy and execution. Here I thank the SUS professionals once again. When you go to the tip and you see what these people’s everyday lives are like, you get im- pressed” (UOL, 05/15/2020). 5. Anonymous message harms testing In the transition from the second to the third minister of health, an agreement was signed between the ministerial of- fice and Universidade Federal de Pelotas to test the occurrence of the coronavirus in several municipalities in the North and Northeast of Brazil. Researchers, when moving to the universe of research, were prevented from carrying it out. The day be- fore their arrival, a message was sent via social media, stating that the population should not open their doors to strangers because they were swindlers who would be scamming homes in various locations in the region. Technicians were hindered and sent to inquiry with the police, their equipment was collect- ed, and, shortly after, they were pressured to leave the testing sites. To this day, the authorship of the note broadcast on the networks calling on the population not to have contact with the researchers is unknown. The information vacuum between gov- ernment and society makes it possible for anonymous messages to enter and circulate on social networks, instead of one whose content would guide the population in advance about the tests’ accomplishment. Successive changes in the Ministry’s actions demon- strated the dismantling of its multi-institutional, health, and educational policy. In addition to the removal of two ministers, and the failure to establish contact with the local community, via testing, there was the abandonment of communication poli- cies initially shared with the society. In the name of logistics, the policies built by different social systems were abandoned. In the name of adopting actions aimed at reformulating the protocols