Different scholars have given their views regarding people’s behavior during pandemic attacks. Communities tend to unite, and discard previously held barriers before the pandemic. Usually, the “we” slogan becomes the defining factor that sees people beyond the epidemic. For instance, a world pandemic like Covid-19 does not discriminate against gender, race, or origin. Therefore, any successful fight against the epidemic will require a unified effort nationally and internationally. It is time that existing cross-border conflicts are solved, and nations raise for one another. It is time when state members need to grow for the welfare of societies. However, it is more critical than local citizens to adopt the “mutual aid” slogan and support each other. Most pandemics are unpredicted and unprecedented response is needed to deracinate them. It is thus vital for all stakeholders to join efforts and make the bold step of fighting the mystery.

Rebecca Solnit is the greatest advocate of unity during pandemic attacks. Her “mutual aid” trademark has significantly been used to promote unity and unified effort, especially during pandemic attacks. In her book “A Paradise Built in Hell,” she reflects moments of resourcefulness, altruism, and generosity that come up during disaster’s disruption and grief. She displays impassioned challenges that define disaster’s social meaning. Solnit contends that disasters present the oppressions as well as opportunities to the communities to make them rediscover the light of altruism, grassroots community, meaningful work, and civic life. The author goes beyond to express her opinion about the potential that people have in uniting amidst any calamity. She shows that it is not the number of people that respond to a calamity matter, but the spirit of joy that drives hem in doing so. It is that joy that magnifies unmet zeal for purposefulness, meaningful work, and community provided by disasters. Further, she defines the power that the world would poses if it collaborates and discards fear and authoritarianism in propelling communities to the future.

It is hard to discard Solnit’s arguments through the evaluation of Solnit statements regarding human relations and day-to-day occurrences. She carefully makes statements in her work that reflect how communities respond and relate, and she categorically pinpoints critical aspects that have been ignored. For instance, her advocacy of mutual aid and community cohesiveness during calamities cannot be disputed. It is through togetherness that troops have won in wars before, and it is through the same strategy that we are going to emerge winners through this outbreak. By use of figurative language, she explains how hurricanes sweep barriers that divide people during standard times. Through an exploration of previous disasters, the author writes about the communities’ experience and the lessons they learned throughout the pandemic. Therefore, her conclusions are backed and are concerning firsthand information from disaster victims. Some of the disasters cited include; The 1906 earthquake of San Francisco, Nova Scotia, the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City, and the 1917 Halifax enormous explosion. The casualties explain that during calamities, utopian societies immediately emerge amid homelessness, significant loss, and disorientation. They were thus recommending mutual aid for a successful sail across such disasters.

The argument towards community coherency perfects reflects the Covid-19 situation. International bodies such as the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for nations to unite and come up with unified measured that will curb the spread of the disease. The world is interlinked through traveling and open borders; thus, it becomes easy for the pandemic to spread from one nation to another. A combined effort is the only positive strategy of curbing the spread. Several disputes have arisen in the case where one country closes its borders, disrupting regular trade. However, peaceful negotiations among leaders have resulted in fruitful in regaining normal relations and continued fight of the calamity.