It would not take a pandemic to look at the world and the rawness of injustice, but if there is something in which COVID-19 was exemplary it was to open the doors of a structurally unequal reality.
We’re not all in the same boat, we weren’t even when all this started. Inequality is glaring and, as always, the pandemic has punished far more those who have less, who live off their work and who were already in a situation of social exclusion or vulnerability.
Even between countries, the difference in response between states with strong public services and states where the jungle law (market) governs fundamental rights such as health or social security was evident.
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*Member of the Portuguese Communist Party to the Assembly of the Republic
