Pandemia e a necessidade de humanizar o humano

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic (coronavirus disease-19) presents itself as a milestone in contemporary sociability, further highlighting the contradictions between 'economy' and 'life' intrinsic to the society and, in particular, to the Brazilian social formation. In this context, the poignant effects of the flexibilization of employment relationships, the limitation of social rights, overexploitation and precarious working conditions, on the one hand, and continuity of inadequate sanitary conditions, inappropriate housing situations, environmental destruction with unpredictable harmful effects and the underfunding and privatization of the Brazilian Unified Health System, on the other hand, are very clear thus hindering the development of emergency solutions that, in fact, present a path for the whole of Brazilian society.Therefore, there is a historical need to promote, now even more intensely than ever, humanization of work, education and health, in line with the editorial positioning of this journal.Considering this tragic picture, we renew our publication with the inauguration of the section entitled "Notes of the Situation", composed of texts by invited authors,