Laws of Fear and the precautionary approach

The fundamental right to health, which is supranational in nature and is present in many of the Member States’ Constitutions, is specified by the correlated right to the respect for personal integrity. So, it’s easy to understand why this right has a double face: in one hand it’s individual, since the body of the citizen is inviolable for modern constitutionalism, on the other, though, it has a collective meaning, since the State has to protect its people fromthe widespread of infectious diseases. This hendiadys has been put to the test by the pandemic emergency and the various anti-Covid provisions, each adopted at the State or regional level to deal with the different specific profiles of each situation.