The hypothesis of the article is that Covid-19 represents a rupture event capable of influencing the plausibility structure of the socio-economic complex activated by market, science and technology. Certain conditions brought about by the pandemic are indeed questioning many elements of everyday life that we take for granted. In this frame work, the paper addresses some of these issues which have been affected by the effects of Covid-19: the relationship between science and technology; socialisation and distancing in the hyper-mediated society; the relationship between science and pseudo-science.
Keywords: total social fact, science, technology, social distancing, Covid-19.