Social, Political and Governamental aspects of life and death administration

The present study is an attempt to elaborate a "diagnosis of the present" about the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and its consequences. Political philosophy, throughout its history, has produced numerous definitions of the act of governing. We will present one more. Such an attempt will focus on understanding the "art of governing" as the domination of state resources practiced for the benefit of certain social classes to the detriment of others. To undertake such an understanding, we will address the following topics: 1- analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic; 2- the art of managing life and death in the pandemic; 3- the pandemic as a living metaphor for the "art of governing"; 4- the solutions given in the case of the pandemic and the floods in the same year 2020 in Brazil: contradiction in action; 5- the use of federal government resources to help the oligopolies and the abandonment of the poor population. At the end, we will enunciate questions related to the political problem of the valorization of scientific knowledge and about the consequences of the revaluation of social movements.