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- Title: Covid 19, Complexities of a Complexity
- Author : Jesus Alveano
- Release Date : January 02, 2021
- Genre: Medical,Books,Professional & Technical,Nonfiction,Philosophy,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2035 KB
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At the end of 2019, something happened that was going to change everything (or almost everything) in the world. The emergence of SARS-COV2 and its spread in humans as a pandemic (WHO, 2020a:5), has meant innumerable phenomena, of such magnitude, that only little by little it has been understood.
The disease called Covid 19, has become a developer. A stimulus that has led to distortions and deficiencies in public health systems coming to light (Walker, 2020:12), which have deepened over time.
One realised that one was not prepared for a pandemic of such dimensions: neither scientific knowledge, nor medical personnel, nor facilities, nor pharmaceuticals, nor societies were able to fully cope with the entire cataclysm.
Assessments towards March 2020 were absolutely catastrophic: "We estimate that in the absence of interventions, COVID-19 would have resulted in 7 billion infections and 40 million deaths worldwide this year" (Walker, 2020:1). In fact, by 16 October, 39,023,292 confirmed cases and 1,099,586 deaths had been reported (WHO,2020b:1).
Faced with such a circumstance, the countries had to face decisions around it; gather the facts, analyse them, make public health decisions, train the staff, adapt the facilities, acquire equipment and medicines and above all, disseminate the characteristics of the medical problem to the population.
It seems appropriate to make explicit the author's position regarding the Theory of Knowledge he has decided to adopt, in order to base both his perspectives, and the arguments he wields when interpreting the facts.
Two points of view can be seen throughout the work. Firstly, Complexity Theory (CT). In the other first place (contradictory), the Theory of Complex Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (CNDS).
The CT, whose main representative is Edgar Morin (1980:418), proposes: "complex thinking does not aim at the elementary but at the radical where uncertainties and antinomies appear"
And what is true for an individual is true for groups and societies. This complex point of view is one that integrates philosophical thinking; an evolutionary perspective, an attitude with humility, in the sense that phenomena cannot simply
respond to a cause-effect equation, but to a multi-causal and multi-deterministic interpretation.
One might ask how is the Covid 19 pandemic different from other recent pandemics?
The pandemic is a complex, very complex process, totally different from any other epidemic.
This volume reviews many of the implications that have contributed to the complexity of the Coronavirus phenomenon.
Therefore, a multi-pronged approach, such as the NCDS theory, seems necessary to try to fully describe and understand its characteristics.
In reality, the pandemic's behaviour responds to a systemic description: non-linear biological systems respond to complex dynamics: non-linearity, openness to context, self-organisation, emergence, unpredictable interaction patterns, adaptive evolution and co-evolution.
All of the above provides a holistic epistemological context for the series of interpretations that have been presented throughout the book and which will be synthesised in the following pages.
To this end, a conceptual map is proposed, which encapsulates the approaches to the pandemic made in the preceding chapters.This set of concepts gave rise to each of the chapters of the book, in the investigation of the determinants of the pandemic. Their nature and the series of relationships established between them will be broken down below. Of course, the author's choice of modality and order in his description is his own, but there is room - in the complexity - for other types of approaches and associations.
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