“I got up from the couch to get water and when I returned, Óscar Puente had built a detour for me on the A7 to enable traffic towards Valencia,” Javier Durán (@tortondo) wrote in X, one of the hundreds of comments and memes that recognize the management and communication work that the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility is carrying out these days after the impact of DANA in Valencia.
The posts about the work of his ministry have concreteness, clarity, usefulness, recognition of workers and citizens and hope in the reconstruction and in the capacity of the State, of the public, of everyone, to overcome the tragedy. It has been almost an oasis of tranquility in the cacophony of voices and information from infinite sources, of very different quality and reliability, that have overwhelmed us this week through social networks and the media, especially television. “The truth supported by data has been devalued,” writes sociologist and economist William Davies in his book Nervous States. If emotions have superseded reason in public conversation in normal situations, what will not happen in times of crisis and catastrophe.
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