COVID-19 AND ELDERLY LIFE

Abstract

The text aims to contribute to the understanding of why the SARS Cov 2 pandemic stops the capitalist world, based on a triple cut: a) - delineation of the biological vulnerability of the world population in the face of the pandemic, with emphasis on the elderly condition, in the description of a set of non-communicable diseases, of global predominance and in the denaturalization of death, by Covid-19, in old age; b) - analysis of the hypothesis that such diseases result from economic and political rationalities based on medication and food, which form a type of global population government, a “health” biopolitics; c) - description of the medicinal field divided into: “disease medicine”, which works with about two thirds of the population; “Health medicine”, with action on approximately one third of the population. Both with legal status are financial economic domains of the world economy, two lines of official medicine involved in health as a business. The text articulates quantitative and qualitative methodology and is supported by Michel Foucault's theoretical formulations.