Social solidarity in the COVID-19 pandemic

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this article is to investigate the administrative, economic and social legal dimensions of the coronavirus pandemic;examine how public policies aimed at emergency social rescue are being implemented. This qualitative research is carried out through national and foreign bibliographic consultations;assuming that this COVID-19 pandemic may be a turning point for economic, social and legal relations to turn to solidarity. It is observed that nations move large public countercyclical investments to overcome the crisis caused by social isolation, unemployment and scarcity. Companies and individuals try to make generous contributions to scientific vaccine research. Solidarity in the favelas was greater in the distribution of food. It is observed in the international experience that favela populations are more exposed to contamination and that the distribution of emergency aid in cash by governments is more efficient than the distribution of food. Despite the difficulties of governmental coordination to combat the pandemic in Brazil a lot has been done, but the solidarity is one the main driver of people and companies. This little extract from the pandemic does not exhaust the issue and does not manage to measure all the economic, social and legal consequences that will come, or even, what will be the number of deaths, but it contributes to the perception of size of problem and how to overcome the challenges.