PROFANT, M.: U nás doma v Evropě a v karanténě / At Home in Europe and in Quarantine
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Philosophica Critica, vol. 6, 2020, no. 1, ISSN 1339-8970, pp. 178-188
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Publication date: June 15, 2020
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Abstract: This paper focuses on a specific strategy of the defence against the COVID pandemic in the countries of the EU. It points out the cultural- historic situation which made it possible for the formation of wide-based consensus with the anti-pandemic measures that strongly limited the social and economic life. It accents the asymmetry of the European solidary decision for the benefit of seniors and seriously ill people. This paper stresses out the European form of the anti-pandemic defence as a highly effective and sympathetic in its values. It states the relative suppression of the distribution of the burden of epidemic according to the social and race key. At the same time, it defines three critical limits of the chosen strategy — a) the necessity to suspend the political conflict with the unclear strategy of its future releasing; b) blind spots of spontaneous and institutional solidarity with the possible tragic consequences (the senselessly dead in the retirement houses etc.); c) the conflict of the necessary grounding of the anti-epidemic measures in the institutions of a national state, especially in the solidary insurances and the COVID caused deficits of national budgets contra the cohesion of EU.
Key words: COVID-19 – Spontaneous solidarity – Institutional solidarity – EU – Czech Republic
DOI: 10.17846/PC.2020.6.1.178-188
Key words: COVID-19 – Spontaneous solidarity – Institutional solidarity – EU – Czech Republic
DOI: 10.17846/PC.2020.6.1.178-188
