From the faceless pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic that the vast majority of countries on our planet have sufered has caused and revealed serious efects on the society in which we live.The conception of the person as relational or not, the theme of presence and digitization, love, death and personal relationships speak of a collapse in what refers to the conception of life.The essence of life, of which Thoureau spoke, has become the maintenance of optimal health, even if we do not know what for. We seek a healthy life in the irst place, and in third or fourth place, a meaningful life. This fact introduces a profound contradiction into the core of our existence: what is the point of living a healthy life if it is meaningless? It has been demonstrated that a healthy but meaningless life produces depression and anxiety. The same pharmaceutical companies that manufacture vaccines are the ones that sell anxiolytics. I think of all those people who for many days, like myself, arrive home after work, healthy and meaningless. This conference is about social media and Relationships in times of pandemic.The fact of the use of the mask, the consequent my stiication of the eyes and the loss of the face, the mass vaccination, the loneliness that bursts into us and our relationships sifted by the screens have clear consequences in the self understanding that the human being has of himself and in his relationships. The faceless pandemic has changed the face of the earth.