A pandemia de COVID-19: uma crise sanitária e humanitária
Nísia Trindade Lima, Paulo Marchiori Buss, Rômulo Paes-Sousa
Abstract
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has led almost the entire planet to a health and humanitarian crisis, testing the human species in several dimensions. The question that arises over so many doubts is: is it an inevitable phenomenon in view of the relationship that humans maintain with the diverse ecosystems and other animal and plant species? Or in a simplified approach, the episodic - but recurring - outcome of the way goods and services are produced and consumed in the world? The pandemic magnifies the tearing tensions of the social organization of our time: globalized in economic exchanges, but weakened as a global political project, digitally interconnected but impregnated with disinformation, on the verge of environmental collapse, but dominantly unsustainable, lacking political ideals, but so averse to politics and common projects. The pandemic puts us in front of the mirror, which reveals a world that has been through many crises and is in need of changes.