Pandemic and Nature Rights

Abstract

Regardless of whether it was created or not and whether or not someone is responsible for it, the bug is a biological fact that expresses an anomaly in the rhythms of nature, with effects on all orders of human life. Hence it follows that one of the fields that we must necessarily examine is the relations between the State, society and nature and to what extent it requires us to redefine them. But in addition, it is evident that this biological fact, by putting all of us at risk, places us in a “common sphere” that demands the care and protection of all, social solidarity, and a strong sense of “the global public sphere”, a category that we had not noticed before from any republican standpoint of what are the common and the public spheres. A third aspect posed by this pandemic is, without a doubt, who is in the best and worst conditions to face this common risk. But in addition, its global nature means that both national sovereignty and the exercise of citizen rights are affected; all of which forces us to connect these disconnected facts and events in the same reflection.