From 'Personal Coping' to 'Social Coping'. How to React to a Pandemic, a Proposal by Ethics

In the light of the existing refl ections on Covid-19 issues, the text proposes a new refl ection on the consequences of a pandemic from the point of view of Christian Social Ethics, its strategies, and reactions in everyday life. The author shows that common good, solidarity, and subsidiarity, fundamental principles of social ethics, are decisive in enabling authentic ‘coping’ to survive the pandemic aftermath. The main implication of the contribution is to show an alternative way of overcoming the breakdown caused by the pandemic state. The methodology the text uses is the theoretical-hermeneutical one proper to the humanistic sciences, leaving aside statistics because of their continuous changing.