Not too long ago, at least in some parts of the world, security was justifiably an appropriate designation befitting the landscape and matrix of the pre-pandemic world. Since the pandemic swept the whole world with repercussions of wide-varying degrees as well as with the waning of globalization, the North-South division has ceased to exist or at least momentarily. This paper aims to downsize the conventional perception of the spatial dimension with regard to the notion of ontological security/insecurity and establish the links between the divisional lines of the Global South and North, particularly as it bears on the notion of ontological insecurity at a crossroads with the pandemic. It makes the case that the implications of the pandemic are of a horizontal distributive nature. The argument is that the pandemic has translated into an egalitarian power, thus devoiding the word “pandemic” from its defamatory perception. A cursory review of the literature on the transformative effect of the pandemic is done by drifting the argument in favor of accentuating the flattening of the inequalities rather than the exacerbation thereof (which is customarily studied only by virtue of socioeconomic and political contingencies). The theme of “ontological insecurity” is approached from varied perspectives, particularly as they are relevant to recent scholarship on the pandemic. A special focus will be given to unmooring our discernment of the pandemic from the narrowly defined notion of security/insecurity by concretizing it on the grounds of its corresponding ontological plight, which is tacitly suggested as the resultant factor of insecurity.