O year 2020 began with the news of an infectious contagious disease in Wuhan, China. Most of us, Brazilian, thought it would be hard to reach us. Until such close Italy and Spain, in March, reported contagion rates above any expectation. In about three months, the world had already contaminated and the number of deaths grew exponentially. It was not an unprecedented situation in human history, but the last time was in 1918 – so almost no one had experienced a pandemic. Each country reacted in its way, as cheap tones, as it counts the history that had occurred in the succession of Rôcumulo in Rome. It has been reported that, after 38 years of re-inking, it has disappeared, driven by rain and wind, without having left it at all, or even its body. Until then, no transition process had been formulated to point to a successor, so that the crowding of Numa Pomplium did not take place immediately after the death of Rôconjuna, but for a time the senators governed the city in rotation, alternating every ten days, in an attempt to replace the monarchy with an oligarchy – a period which was known precisely as an interregnum (‘inter rex’). In today’s world, there has also been a period of interregnum. And the outbreak of the pandemic could not have better illustrated this finding.