This presentation seeks to understand how, from the perspective of considering health as a right, COVID-19 and its treatment took all governments and their health systems by surprise. The vast majority collapsed under the burden of patient care because they had either moved towards the privatization of their systems as a result of right-wing government policies, or their health systems had simply been abandoned to neglect by other governments. What are the lessons here? Will humanity have learned them? What will the post-pandemic be like? What guidelines have been issued by practitioners of International Human Rights Law and its institutions? Is democracy affected by the current states of emergency? Who have become the most vulnerable sectors under the application of the measures recommended by the WHO? The objective is to point out the parameters provided by binding instruments that exist within the framework of law pertaining to the right to health. The need to guarantee the right to digital connectivity emerges as a major lesson in this process, as does the political unraveling of several leaders of States who have failed to successfully confront the crisis. Humanity goes out to the streets in fear.