Human Rights or Irresponsibility? part 8 Understandably, the western governments try to reach a balance by giving people enough freedom and privacy, however, people’s ignorance and selfishness are making this battle against coronavirus impossible to win and it will finally hurt themselves. Freedom and personal privacy have been valued as a symbol of a highly developed civilization. However, when we look back at this period of history after decades or in the eyes of our future generations, it is clear that we are not as civilized as we thought, but a bunch of selfish, barbarous and indifferent animals, who showed no respect to life, and would risk taking away other people’s lives just to have some fun of their own. Freedom and privacy are not as important as responsibility and life. We have to admit that humans are not fully different from their ancient ancestors. The governments and lawmakers should take control at this special time. It was already late, but we don’t want to see more people dying because of this. Now it’s time.

Human Rights or Irresponsibility? part 7 When the health care systems collapse, nobody will be safe anymore. The very sick coronavirus patients recover slowly and they all need ventilators, soon the ventilators would run out and many patients would have to wait with no treatment and die, soon the hospitals would be filled with the coronavirus patients everywhere, and all the doctors and nurses are saving the coronavirus patients, leaving no doctors or nurses in other departments. It means if someone, whether young or old, needed a ventilator due to a sudden sickness which isn’t the coronavirus, he can’t get one, or if someone got a traffic accident and he needed a doctor, he might not get one since the doctors are all dealing with the more urgent coronavirus patients. I know it’s difficult and it feels boring to stay at home for everyone. I feel the same, and I feel even worse because I spent all my savings coming to the US to study and pursue my academic dream, but now I can only stay at home and study online, mostly by myself. But when thinking of spreading the virus and taking other people’s lives, I would rather stay at home. Now the coronavirus has taken away 100,000 lives worldwide. People might feel numb to see the death number now because when the number gets too large, it makes it difficult to imagine and seem lifeless, not as shocking as a plane crash that kills hundreds of people. But think about the people you know, you love and respect, even if one person died due to the virus, it would make you so heartbreaking. When thinking of 100,000 families have lost their beloved, when watching a daughter crying and saying goodbye through the phone to her father who is dying alone in the hospital because she couldn’t go to the hospital due to the virus, who would still feel like going to a party? It’s difficult for governments to let people stay at home without strict laws and executive. Some Asian countries used aggressive methods to control the coronavirus and it worked well, but the western governments hesitate to use them as some of the methods violate human rights. Their indecisive are making them lose time and the chance to stop the virus, as the scientists have proved that only when the isolation was fully obeyed and started early and sustained long enough, the virus would be controlled.