Vulnerability and Interdependency under the COVID-19 pandemic
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic, declared in March of 2020 by the WHO, requires specific attention to the phenomenon of vulnerability. The pandemic made the ontological vulnerability manifest that all human beings share. Still, it also made the ways apparent in which socio-economical inequalities result in the unequal distribution of specific or circumstantial vulnerabilities. On the other hand, it also showed the profound interdependency we share with all these persons, extending to no human agents and the environment. This article presents a general analysis of vulnerability in the context of COVID-19. It suggests in particular that it constitutes an adequate category for analysing the essential interdependency of the human being with his fellow human beings, the other living creatures and the environment.
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