This Special Issue of the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, guest edited by Professor Martha Albertson Fineman, was pre-empted by the Covid-19 pandemic which has impacted upon, and continues to impact upon, the lives of us all. To say that Covid-19 has caused unprecedented harm to humanity is an understatement. The virus is responsible for the deaths of over 4 million people across the globe with numbers rising daily. Covid-19 has fundamentally disrupted our lives. Of particular interest in this Special Issue, are the myriad ways in which it has exposed the fragility of our embodied state and of the social institutions with which we are all engaged and on which we are all reliant. This fragility has not been caused by Covid-19 but, rather, is related to our shared and inherent vulnerability, which is always present, but which has been exposed by the effects of the pandemic.

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社论 Covid-19：漏洞理论的教训和教训

由 Martha Albertson Fineman 教授客座编辑的《国际歧视与法律杂志》特刊已被 Covid-19 大流行抢占先机，Covid-19 大流行已经影响并将继续影响我们所有人的生活。说 Covid-19 对人类造成了前所未有的伤害是轻描淡写的。该病毒导致全球超过 400 万人死亡，而且数字每天都在上升。Covid-19 从根本上扰乱了我们的生活。本期特刊特别令人感兴趣的是，它以无数方式暴露了我们具体化的国家和我们都参与其中并依赖的社会机构的脆弱性。这种脆弱性不是由 Covid-19 引起的，而是与我们共同的和固有的脆弱性有关，这种脆弱性始终存在，