Covid-19 Pandemic and Human Rights – Myth or Reality?

Aim. During the pandemic situation of Covid-19, various true or false information about the spread, treatment, prevention, and vaccination against Covid-19 began to spread in the media, as well as in the real world. It is necessary to fight against various hoaxes on the basis of modern and especially scientifically docu-mented information. Method. This study addresses human rights and change in society before and during the Covid-19 pandemic situation. The authors of the study worked with specific texts and with the help of literary and textual analysis, as well as analytical and synthetic methods. Basic human rights and freedoms during the pandemic were pointed out, together with various myths which circulate among non-professional individuals Results. The results of the study confirm that the pandemic situation of Covid-19 requires constant explanation, exploration, and confirmation of professional and scientific studies by experts in the media as well as within the social life of people, just to reject various hypotheses of people who are not experts in the field and who disseminate false and scientifically and technically unsubstantiated information. © 2022, Pro Scientia Publica Foundation. All rights reserved.

Covid-19 Pandemic and Human Rights Myth or Reality?

Aim. During the pandemic situation of Covid-19, various true or false information about the spread, treatment, prevention, and vaccination against Covid-19 began to spread in the media, as well as in the real world. It is necessary to fight against various hoaxes on the basis of modern and especially scientifically documented information. Method. This study addresses human rights and change in society before and during the Covid-19 pandemic situation. The authors of the study worked with specific texts and with the help of literary and textual analysis, as well as analytical and synthetic methods. Basic human rights and freedoms during the pandemic were pointed out, together with various myths which circulate among non-professional individuals Results. The results of the study confirm that the pandemic situation of Covid-19 requires constant explanation, exploration, and confirmation of professional and scientific studies by experts in the media as well as within the social life of people, just to reject various hypotheses of people who are not experts in the field and who disseminate false and scientifically and technically unsubstantiated information.

The Importance of Social and Spiritual Bridging in Relation to Post-Covid Society Polarization in Slovakia

Background: The situation with the third wave of the pandemic revealed the problem of frontal atomization of Slovak society, which is considered to be one of the main reasons why Slovakia currently achieves significantly negative quantification parameters in vaccination and overall pandemic management. Here, we are of the opinion that activities that create social bridges between entities in an antagonistic environment contribute to the healing of the social atmosphere. Therefore, the call for coherence in social policy, economics and ethics presupposes, on the one hand, the weakening of the fragmentation of society and the strengthening of functional communication and cooperation schemes in which the human factor precedes the technological and organizational factor. The need for such bridging in the Slovak context brings challenges in terms of values, ethics and soft skills not only on the part of professionals in the field of social work, but also on the basis of civic responsibility, to which the authors point their arguments. Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic affected society as a whole. We note that some of the negative trends present before the pandemic intensified and required that they be properly understood and adequately addressed quickly and competently. The results of our study are a contribution to the interdisciplinary discourse on the causes of the growing social atomization and value fragmentation of society.