In this essay, the contingency of the human being is analyzed as a possibility of pain, illness, suffering and death in the context of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. These are vital and, at the same time, transcendental questions that go beyond any economic and biopolitical analysis. COVID-19 has caused thousands of deaths, sowed pain and suffering in the population and dealt a severe blow to mental health, generating high levels of stress, sadness, depression and anxiety. It also revealed corruption as a political vice, which is one of the main causes of the crisis: economic, social inequality and values. The fundamental argument is to understand contingency as an integral part of the human being and the origin of its limitation, fragility, expiration and even weakness in the willpower to corrupt itself.