ABSTRACT
Were we living in a rational world, we would have expected that the pandemic’s predictability would have enabled us to get ready for it. It would also have been legitimate to expect that tackling the pandemic would not have diverted the healthcare institutions’ attention away from the inescapable baseline of illness, or that we would have been able to arrive at a more prudent and informed assessment of how to conduct ourselves. But however reasonable such a linear conception of the relationship between information, knowledge and choices would have been, this is not what came to pass. To take aim at the unexplored implications of what is now going on, the concepts of syndemic conditions and of the remission society can help in achieving a wider recognition of the inevitable fragility of human existence.
