Global health governance and disaster recovery for rebel returnees during COVID-19

Abstract

This article highlights the need for governing some gradual ruptures from the past to achieve a sense of new normalcy in public health. The rebel returnees during the pandemic form a case of a vulnerable group who triply experience disasters: from the pandemic and natural disasters to terrorism. Global health governance carries on the management of past problems attaining their maturation and faces new ones for disaster recovery.

Thinking With Roy and Žižek on the Freedom of a Forced Covid-19 ‘New Normal’

“…As of this writing, the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has already recorded 410 million cases with 5.81 million deaths. The pandemic has shown, at this point, the many faces of a loaded disaster in the sense that for some areas, one can experience an ecological crisis, a medical emergency, and terrorism (Kahambing, 2021a). Comparable to the ecological crisis in Living in the End Times, the situation is also a mishmash of sociological, technological, and biological systems (Žižek, 2010).…”

“…This brings us to the third and critical case on global health governance (Kahambing, 2021a). After stipulating that an ethical consideration can adopt an 'open-minded epistemology' in vaccinations (also expounded this elsewhere; see Kahambing, 2021b), one can proceed to an original position of a radicalizationan opening up from solidly shut or conserved moral dispositionsof certain strict interpretative forms of shut conservatism that impede the achievement of herd immunity: the ethical principle of autonomy (e.g.…”

Actual problems of philosophy of health in the context of bioethics

“…В этом опыте (личном для каждого в ближайшем приближении), как в фокусе, представлено огромное множество современных социокультурных факторов: и ожидание экологической катастрофы; и острые проблемы пандемии COVID-19 практически во всех странах, и постоянная забота о чистоте воды, здоровом питании; а также о доступности и справедливом распределении качественной медицинской помощи и др. [25][26][27]. Никогда ранее в истории здравоохранение не требовало для своего функционирования такого огромного количества общественных ресурсов [28,29].…”