The article analyzes the community initiatives that emerged during the pandemic to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic on communities. The authors problematize that these actions depend on the solidarity and empathy of the subjects, which is not always the case. Through a communicational look at the dynamics of (de)mobilization, the authors seek to understand them from three perspectives: contact conditions; conditions of collectivization and conditions of empathy, based on the observation of the 1st Meeting of Periferia Viva – Covid 19 Task Force, an articulating project carried out in Belo Horizonte.
