Fears: Diversities, intensities, times, measures and directions in the pandemic

Abstract

This work focuses on fear, fear in the pandemic, and how the population exposes, diversifies, intensifies, reconverts and contextualizes it. It is said that it is an emotion of survival, also a social and political product with intention, its protection function is considered positive and its tensional chronicity is detrimental. There are various theories and opinions about fear, but what matters here is what people describe and explain, and above all its broad and deep meaning in their own voice. Among the findings, the diversity of fears stands out, the intensity of the fear of the pandemic, its permanence over time. As well as the fear of the other, as contagious and as non-compliant, that is, a biological fear of physical survival and a social fear, of survival of the group, the system and the social structure.