REFLECTIONS ABOUT THE HEALTH IN PANDEMIC TIMES OF COVID-19

The concern with sanity is secular, with health inserted in several related areas, studied among the oldest sciences that human intelligence has ever developed; however, in contemporary times, the need to combine health and legislation has been more and more frequent and, to guarantee that, the latter has been constituted in a real social need. Many scholars have already looked into health and disease as a way of guaranteeing the fullness of life, so much so that around 300 years before Christ, the Greek philosopher, Zeno of Citium, argued that peace of mind could only be achieved through a life based on virtuous conduct and compliance with the laws of nature; which brings us to the Latin maxim “Mens sana in corpore sano”. Healthy minds and bodies were thus registered for millennia as an ideal of life, being known through the aforementioned Latin maxim that appears in the satirical work of the Roman poet Juvenal. The classic Latin text, however, is much more comprehensive than the short sentence that preaches health of body and mind.