Pandemic and Universal Brotherhood

Note on Covid-19 by the Pontifical Academy for Life

 

The Pontifical Academy for Life, which by its institutional mandate promotes and supports the alliance between science and ethics in a search for the best possible humanism, wishes to contribute its own reflections. Its intent is to locate certain elements of this situation within a renewed spirit that must nourish social relations and care for the person. The exceptional situation that today challenges the brotherhood of the humana communitas must finally transform itself into an occasion for this spirit of humanism to influence institutional culture at a regular pace: within individual peoples, and in the harmonious bonds between peoples.

 

The risk of a global epidemic requires, in the context of responsibility, the introduction of global coordination in health care systems. Be aware that the strength of the process is determined by the weakest link, in terms of speed of diagnosis, rapidity of reaction and proportionate containment measures, adequate structures, systems for record keeping and ability to share information and data. It is necessary that the authorities who can deal with emergencies comprehensively, make decisions, and orchestrate communications, can also be relied upon as reference points to avoid the communication storms that have broken out (“infodemia”), with their inexact data and the fragmentary reports.

 

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COVID-19 and the closure of school canteens

 

The suspension of teaching activities is the most evident consequence of the closure of the school facilities, but together with the schools they also close the canteens, with serious consequences for the poorest families.

 
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The quarantine of domestic violence

 

The coronavirus emergency necessitated isolation at home in order to stem contagion. But for women victims of violence, home becomes a prison.

 
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Africa and the pandemic

 

The data on coronavirus in Africa return a confusing and basically indecipherable situation. Meanwhile, the WHO warns about the continent's scarce health resources against COVID-19

 
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The requests of European large families to the institutions

 

The European Large Families Confederation has raised some important questions about their struggle with COVID-19.

 
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