http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210928-124622-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/killing-locally-or-killing-globally/ Killing Locally or Killing Globally Bottini Filho, Luciano eng 2021-09-28 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 COVID 19 Pandemic sheffield Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The pandemic status is also a political exercise and a way to phrase a crisis according to political interests. As long as some diseases do not reach a pandemic level, they would not elicit the immediate financial help and international cooperation, which has at least been promised (if not delivered) during COVID.