Fighting the pandemic and fighting during a pandemic: words and discourses on bioethics, between pandemic and war.

Does the language of war have bioethical repercussions? The question is related both to the continuation of the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic and to the ongoing war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. This paper will analyse the discourses about the pandemic, which have been marked using the metaphor of war, to highlight the repercussions on public health choices when using non-rational language, such as metaphorical and warlike language. In addition, the paper will analyse the languages used to talk about war itself, to understand how bioethical problems, which arise and increase during a conflict, are qualified and dealt with.