Reflections on the human from the coronavirus pandemic

More than a million deaths from covid19, the worst pandemic in the history of mankind, caused by the coronavirus, a virus that mutated from bats to a recipient animal, still undefined, and from there, to humans; a journey that is easily explained, but which led scientists to define it with investigations in record time.

The resistance to accept that a microorganism can bring terrible consequences to humanity, behavior that has led us to act as if nothing is happening, to act as if we can live as always, that the approach, the effusiveness in the search for affection can carried out as usual and that does not bring consequences, and think that it is only a matter of time to wake up from that fleeting and momentary nightmare, and that life, as we know it, cannot and should not change, much less think that we have not done the right thing and that we have not been wrong in practicing a social life based on the praise of pleasure and the propping up of the self.

Unable to measure the consequences of this predatory and unconscious human practice, delimited by a frivolous and cowardly narrative, a vainglory of our human condition, and despite the consequences, they have not yet come out of shock or denial, and continue to feed that poor vision of the human and its purposes, even affirming it with slogans that give us hope that soon we will feel a prick in our arms with a needle that will introduce the miraculous water that will make us immune to the deadly virus, and that everything will return to normal, that we We will remove fear and masks forever, leaving only a faint memory that a while ago there was a pandemic caused by a deadly coronavirus that claimed the lives of more than a million human beings.

However, that more than a million human beings killed by covid19 will leave an indelible mark and scar that will haunt us like a post-traumatic ghost, reminding us of our smallness and vulnerability, our very diminutive place in the natural order where we should never have thought that we were different.

A pandemic that has been exploited by unscrupulous human beings to engage in politics, to look for scapegoats that sculpt the responsibility that all human beings have for the natural imbalance that caused the coronavirus pandemic, as if it were easy to face it, and come out unscathed, without a scratch, without dire consequences.

Getting used to death is not easy, much less living with it, conceptualizing and avoiding imagining it, despite our entropic structural propensity, and that the pleasure principle manages to avoid those annoying and painful thoughts, even in the presence of countless corpses and sufferings of our fellow sufferers from covid19, we prefer to divert our gazes and our thoughts, and act as if nothing were happening, the illustrated phrase "the best of all possible worlds" is difficult to pronounce, but we prefer "to be" than "not to be ", Although we have to pay dearly (more than a million deaths from the covid19) as the offering to the gods (physis) for our offenses and excesses, although that" being "is sustained in" nothingness ", paradoxically in the" not be ”, a perverse and crazy dialectic.

We thought we were special, and that we deserved to be at the top of the evolutionary pyramid, I even think that rather than attending to scientific evidence we prefer to self-deceive ourselves and dogmatically believe in evolution that implies perfection and balance, dominance and submission, and optimists we have fun with seeing from above or with the corner of the eye to the other inferior beings, sure that our powerful imagination, and thoughts were enough to solve the twists and turns of living in nature being different and equal to other living beings, with one foot inside nature and the other, in our imaginary and limited world; And today to verify that all that vainglory was a mask (mask) to hide our identity confusion, our prejudices, our stupid arrogance, that we are even worse than the coronavirus that stopped us in our tracks, that we have destroyed everything around us, including ourselves We can only verify it by turning around and seeing inequality and social classes, the predominance of the strongest and most violent, the caste of ascetics that rule the human world, full of rancor and filth; the destruction of our human and natural environment.

“You no longer see the birds flying through the air, nor do you breathe the scent of flowers. The earth is no longer rough or copper-colored. There are no longer men cutting down trees, nor young people camping on the river bank. There is no more noise from squirrels and mice, from deer and wild boar. The chimney of the cabin no longer senses the smoky skies, and draws the face of the grandfather in the sky. No longer does the rainbow reveal its colors, nor does the road get messy with the hiker's walk. It is neither hot nor cold anymore, we don't even feel happy, nor do we sing to the beat of the stream bed ”.

The selfish and narcissistic components make their way between the community demand to face a global evil, a pandemic that does not distinguish colors, sexes, tastes, aesthetics, ideology, in short, a microorganism that like a monarch took the world as its kingdom, and humans as its fearful subjects who pay homage, spells, prayers, respect for their lives to be respected, even admiration for their ability to reproduce, to forgive some no matter how weak they were, or kill no matter how strong they were. were, a corona virus, it becomes the crown of all kingdoms.

A historical deviation, dearly we paid for this deviation from a lost community origin, to another, selfish and solipsistic, we dumbly thought that we spoke transcendental and important things, without realizing that we were distancing ourselves from each other, others from some, without realizing that the drive Death moves powerfully between those myths, ideologies, and sciences.

I recall some lessons that we have to learn from this coronavirus pandemic:

Despite the fact that no country in the world was prepared for covid19, and that neoliberal public policies were gradually degrading public health services in most countries, or privatizing them as was the case in the United States, or, and that is Needless to say, Europe, trying to reconcile its frankly capitalist present with its social spiritual entrails (ideologically), where despite betting on public health protection, it is also making it insufficient to avoid the costs in human lives of the coronavirus, the opposition of many countries of the world, they reproach that the governments of those countries of the world could not have done more, presenting themselves without any viable or alternative proposal, as if being at the head of those governments they could have done better; but that is not true, because simply, like all current governments, they would be faced with the total ignorance of facing something terribly new and lethally powerful such as the coronavirus pandemic; without antecedents and preventive medical preparation, without a population capable of responding to the new hygienic and closeness behaviors that have been required to lessen the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, without a still effective vaccine, and with the effects of an economic crisis that it was accompanied by the human demobilization caused by the coronavirus pandemic, and without a social conscience that we are facing a new frustrated account of the human condition.

The covid19 lets us see the most perverse entrails of the human being, that its predatory tendency does not stop, and that the communal act is submitted to the selfish and individual appetites of man as always, that is why it is feasible to realize that the fight for it Public power remains intact, and that the instruments of domination and slavery remain in force, making it seem that nothing is happening, that we can face a visceral struggle for public political power without ethics or social conscience as always, that tomorrow we will wake up from this nightmare that the world lives, and that each one will occupy the place that he has occupied in this narrative that has failed, without us realizing that we call human civilization, and therefore, that we live the best of all possible worlds.

The elements that the governments of the world have to report good results in the face of the confrontation against the coronavirus are multifactorial, since they have to do with material and economic factors (accumulation of wealth), and in that line few are the countries that the pandemic seized them with sufficient economic and material resources, for the simple reason that we build an unequal world and without social justice, so in this neoliberal system a few countries are the privileged ones, the vast majority of the countries of the world have had to bet on the benevolence of other factors, or luck; It has to do with environmental factors (deterioration of the environment and dirt), as well as population factors (promiscuous population concentrations); that has to do with education and historical memory, this thinking about the ability of a population to be disciplined and respond to the advice that the World Health Organization has been doing, effective quarantine period, hygiene and healthy distance between others, as well as preserving and being able to remember and not repeat the suffering of the collective or personal past; Genetic and medical, some studies have said that the severity of infections caused by covid19 depend on the predisposition to blood, alopecia, immunological factors, etc., in short, that the manual to deal effectively with covid19 has not yet been written.

Why in America the coronavirus has been primed with more suffering, mainly in the United States and Latin America, because, although it may seem incredible, the United States allowed to show, despite its apparent well-being, that it always insisted on showing that it was the place of dreams and not of the banality that in the end it turned out to be, or that we knew, but the drug that the neoliberal system supplied us did not allow us to discern between appearance and reality, it is a dogmatic, racial, ignorant society, despite its prestigious universities, unequal , with a political class stagnant in its eternal bipartisan alternatives, without the possibility of another vision of life and society, with a totally private health system, with a government that still faces the coronavirus pandemic with public policies limited by economic power private, which requires it to prioritize the economy at the cost of the human lives of Americans, we can even say that the health crisis Covid19 benefited large fortunes, such as "the fortune of Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon, increased in the course of the Covid-19 crisis by 25,000 million dollars, that is, more or less as the GDP from Honduras. His fortune already rises to 150,000 million dollars, the equivalent of Hungary's GDP; and it is calculated that it could quickly get to the trillion dollars. It is becoming more and more difficult to find meaning and meaning in those enormous fortunes ", and that this is nonsense, as we see it, the country with more deaths and more infected with richer rich people due to the same health crisis, in short, than the country of perfection is leaking everywhere.

And our dear and beloved Latin America, with its contradictions, its prejudices, its ignorance, its spirit dominated by centuries of domination and slavery, with its sweet and rich prose but useless and far from reality, perhaps it was to escape from reality that it constricts them within their beings, with a poor political class bought by economic interests, with their few voices of freedom and coherence that are silenced by the unscrupulous and thieves, with their noisy towns that wander tumbling through poverty and mediocrity, Not even if they want their patron saints do they matter and do the miracle, now they are only the pretext for vice and sexual courtship; our Latin America, a self-sacrificing mother who does not know happiness, because it has always suffered from scarcity, poverty, marginalization and setbacks, even nature is primed with it, and now that virus that does not distinguish between nobility and greed, between master and slave, between rich and poor, because if he did, surely he would not be making her suffer so much, self-sacrificing mother who knows that the covid19 was introduced by the few rich people who could travel, as it was when he suffered the ravages of smallpox and other infections that the Spanish colonizers; and now it faces a deadly virus without money, and with thirsty and hungry peoples, who cannot afford to be quarantined and to be supported, and who have to go and find their daily bread, as long ago , apart we add, his ignorance, which makes him reckless, "if we were born to die", "with a good liquor that virus is killed", why wear more veils, more masks, if all your life has been silent, concealed, furtive, on the prowl, despite its material wealth that only produces them and sees how they leave for the master countries, with their rulers without strong states, lacerated by corruption and deception, it seems that the COVID-19 crisis is here to stay, I don't know If avoiding that reality causes such thoughtless and suicidal behavior, the quarantine was never quarantine, I urge you were never heard, even when death knocks at the door, they deny that there is such a virus, a denial that is becoming deadly and terrible.

Although I care about the world, the closest world is the one that really matters to me, to do good you have to be well, piety and Christian charity at this time is useless. Although I know why we are so far from being well, that there is an exhaustion of that perverse narrative, I think that as our "crazy" and dear Nietzsche points out, we will continue to believe, living in that nothingness, in that emptiness, in those gods and those useless myths As long as we have this grammar, language is destiny, and destiny is already written.

We have never left the Platonic caverns, we have always lived in the shadows despite the lights of illustration and rationality, the truth is hidden behind language, behind fiction, behind imagination, and building that new narrative of man is the challenge of our times.

May our civilization rest in peace!