Covid 19: What Is the Lesson for the Future?

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume VI, Issue V, May 2022 | ISSN 2454–6186

Covid 19: What Is the Lesson for the Future?

Francisco Soares Campelo Filho
Instituto Akdemus de Estudos Avançados em Ciências Sociais e Jurídicas

Abstract: Humanity has faced the biggest problem in its post-World War II history. The pandemic caused by COVID 19 has taken the lives of millions of people around the world, exposing not only human fragility, but mainly that countries did not have the tools to provide an adequate response to such a serious problem. The measures adopted by the governments were unable to solve the problem and, to make things worse, even generated others, such as the collapse of economies around the world. The social isolation determined by the authorities recognized the inability and unpreparedness of governments to deal with the pandemic, having also generated an ideological debate that did nothing to solve the problem, but only to transform the serious crisis into a political discussion that can put the model of democracy, the rule of law and the allocation of powers at risk. But what is the main lesson to be learned from this crisis? Society is formed by the people who compose it, the same people who once elected democracy, the rule of law and the distribution of powers as being the closest model to the ideal of political and administrative organization in the civilized world. Governments should work for these people, always seeking the common good and thinking of them as human beings that they are, and not as mere “voters”. Making governments think, more comprehensively, about people, about the education of children and young people, and about the future, without any ideological bias, should be the main lesson left by COVID 19 to governments and humanity.

Keywords: COVID 19, Pandemic, Government, Ideology, Crisis, Economy, Social Isolation, Lesson, Future. Humanity.

I. INTRODUCTION

Will The Covid-19 Pass as A Tsunami Or Will It Remain Indelibly In People’s Lives?
There is something that needs to be clarified and that, despite so many answers and explanations, so far they have not been adequately addressed. The reasoning derives, at first, and within a reasonable logic, from a comparison between COVID 19 and a Tsunami. Effectively, in the event of hurricanes, tsunamis or other events of nature that could cause damage, governments warn everyone and advise to leave a possible risk area urgently or to remain in their homes until the end of the catastrophic event. The event takes place, destroys property and reapers lives, and people return to normality. Of course, “loss of life” is not the issue here, nor the destruction of property. No, this is another discussion!
Is COVID 19 a tsunami? In other words, does it correspond to something that, like the catastrophic events of nature, passes and leaves, leaving behind its devastating mark? If the answer to these questions is in the affirmative, then there is nothing to discuss about the need for isolation of people, for example, although this topic is still the subject of debate today. The event is expected to pass and then everyone goes back to their

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