Biology vs. society

Humans are not just biology. People asking for the “end of lockdown” so “nature can just run its course”. There is open discourse going on about “the virus culling the weak and elderly”..

Who are the weak in this society? Are there not racial and other discriminatory lines along that distinction? Who has our society already failed in looking after and keeping healthy? If “we are just biology” does that justify decades of colonisation, genocide of entire peoples and cultures, wars, destruction?

I feel like I just saw a different perspective on political views: “humans as biology” vs. “humans as society”.

Margaret Thatcher once said in 1987, “There is no such thing as society.” Interestingly almost 30 years later, her predecessor Boris Johnson makes a statement after being saved by the NHS that “there really is such a thing as society”. If there is no such thing as society, then what is the NHS? Who are the 750,000 members of the public who have volunteered to aid the health service in Covid-19 times?

Something tells me that a very core part of the debate on how we run our world sits with this question. Are humans just biology, or are they society?