Covid-19: Modernity and fatal arrogance

Abstract

This article analyzes the problems derived from the global pandemic of Covid-19. It starts by locating a close antecedent in China in 2003, the SARS-COV type virus that appeared in Guangdong province and spread to Beijing and other cities, and that should have set off alarms around the world. It refers to the fracturing of the supports of the so-called modernity caused by the rapid expansion of this pandemic, and the powerlessness of the great nations to fight it and avoid its devastating effects. The consequences that it will have in the short, medium and long term in the fields of economic, social and global geopolitics are visible, and for Latin America as well, according to the preliminary analysis and projections made by ECLAC in its most recent study on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. A critical analysis is made of how this pandemic is radically changing the lives of human beings in society, coming to the conclusion that the trade war that will ensue at the end of the pandemic, is a new global reconfiguration of capitalism, with the same winners and losers of all this, because despite this tragedy, capitalism will continue to be savage, as we believe that it will not yet come to an end.