Abstract
The paper argues that when a country’s social structures— political, economic, and cultural—are arranged such that the arrangement results in a dichotomy between the class of the privileged and the class of the less privileged, any act of addressing a pandemic such as the COVID-19 will always end up in another pandemic: the pandemic of government neglect and ineptitude. There is only one way out in ensuring that this double pandemic can be addressed: a return to the foundations of a good life for all—a democracy that secures that the good of collective life is for all.
Recommended Citation
Agcaoili, Aurelio S.
(2020)
"Disease and Disparities: The Structural Violence in the Time of Our Covidized Lives,"
Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture: Vol. 24:
No.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/budhi/vol24/iss1/4
