Worrying about what would become the central concerns addressed in Living with an Infected Planet. Covid-19, feminism and the Global Frontline of care set in March 2020. Thinking about writing what became this book began on March 13,2020. That was the date of Antonio Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, "the world's largest universal multilateral international organization". infomed all the human beings who inhabit their shared planet together that "we must declare war on the virus". Just two days before, the WHO, the United Nation's agency which has the task to "direct and coordinate the world's response to health emergencies", had declare the outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 - SARS - CoV-2, the cause of coronavirus disease 2019, known as covid-19 a pandemic.