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Doctors and nurses in these weeks are busy in the trenches, fighting againsta new invisible enemy: Covid-19. Cities are locked down and civilians arebesieged in their own homes, to prevent the spreading of the virus. War-relatedterminology is commonly used to frame the discourse around epidemics anddiseases. Arguably the discourse around the current epidemic will make use ofwar-related metaphors too,not only in public discourse and the media, but alsoin the tweets written by non-experts of mass communication. We hereby presentan analysis of the discourse around #Covid-19, based on a corpus of 200k tweetsposted on Twitter during March and April 2020. Using topic modelling we firstanalyze the topics around which the discourse can be classified. Then, we showthat the WAR framing is used to talk about specific topics, such as the virustreatment, but not others, such as the effects of social distancing on thepopulation. We then measure and compare the popularity of the WAR frame tothree alternative figurative frames (MONSTER, STORM and TSUNAMI) and a literalframe used as control (FAMILY). The results show that while the FAMILY literalframe covers a wider portion of the corpus, among the figurative framings WARis the most frequently used, and thus arguably the most conventional one.However, we conclude, this frame is not apt to elaborate the discourse aroundmany aspects involved in the current situation. Therefore, we conclude, in linewith previous suggestions, a plethora of framing options, or a metaphor menu,may facilitate the communication of various aspects involved in theCovid-19-related discourse on the social media, and thus support civilians inthe expression of their feelings, opinions and ideas during the currentpandemic.

Framing COVID-19: How we conceptualize and discuss the pandemic on Twitter