Human Rights, or Irresponsibility? Sunshine, beach and noisy, happy crowds. The spring breakers are enjoying their great time at a beach in Miami, Southern Florida. The cheers are hotter than the temperature. The parties are going on. “Please stay at home!” The nurses appealed to the public desperately. As the patients keep being sent to the hospital, more and more patients are dying, and the doctors and nurses are working day and night without even enough protective facilities on them. This is the worst situation after the second world war. The battle is hard, and they are trying effortlessly to save lives. The only difference is they’ve run out of bullets and time. Yes, you are watching the scenes in the same country, the United States. When I started thinking about writing this article nearly a month ago, the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the US was less than 5,000. Now the number is about 610, 000. It’s not so surprising for me and many Chinese people to watch the number grow like riding a rocket, because we knew how hard it was to control the virus, what needed to be done and what kind of sacrifices Chinese people and government made to stop the virus. When we saw how careless many people here are and what actions the government and people are taking to prevent the virus, we know things are going to be a lot worse. When I saw pictures of people crowding in the bars after becoming stay-home workers, I knew what’s probably going to happen. Freedom and personal privacy have been valued highly and defended in the US and most other western countries. But those are the countries which are doing poorly preventing the coronavirus. These human rights are important, but the spreading of coronavirus is more severe. The government should take aggressive actions to stop the virus even though some of the actions are against human rights. People in the country are so used to their rights, like freedom, that many of them do not understand that sometimes we need to sacrifice our rights to save something more valuable, like human life. Though after seeing the coronavirus losing control, many governments had to start letting people stay at home, however, most of the policies they used seemed to not work at all, since the virus is still spreading rapidly and causing various tragedies. Without strict laws, punishments and executive power, many of the people who are used to freedom are not taking it seriously and they do not obey the government urge to stay at home.