Post-COVID State

Abstract

Never ever has the life of people in the most var- ied countries across the world, including Russia, been so heavily filled with medical statistics. The key topics featuring in phone conversations and social media publications are ranging from new hospital beds created to the daily growth rate in confirmed COVID-19 cases. In public consciousness corona- virus has risen its ugly heady all the way from an implausible fiction to a permanent fixture of our life. However COVID-19 will certainly go away some- day, but many customary features of human life will remain in place forever.

Since day one of the virus pandemic, experts have noted that neither the high mortality rate, nor the threat of human extinction is an issue but the health care system just failing to manage a spontaneous massive inflow of millions of people suffering from an acute form of the disease. In this context talks of a civilized state must follow the Confucian tradition in a sense that ‘less the king does, the more gets done’ started to be perceived as a lame attempt at humor. Probably someday humankind will rise to the chal- lenge of self-government at a level where people will be able make fun of Hobbes and prove that statehood is to be dispensed with. Today, however, it has no competition when it comes to the need to mount joint efforts to challenge global threats ...