If the Covid 19 crisis shows us one thing, it is this: that we need to move quickly toward a new unity of the social sciences, one that is also capable of understanding difficult questions about differences between countries and proposing rational solutions to crises like this one. After all, other disciplines cannot be considered for this. A contribution by principal investigator Prof. Dr. Steffen Huck and SCRIPTS co-director Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn. The text is only available in German.