PROTECTING RIGHTS DURING COVID-19 IS NOT ALL OR NOTHING

摘要

THE DEATH TOLL ASSOCIATED WITH THE novel coronavirus, otherwise known as COVID-19, has well surpassed 100,000 in the United States. To place this suffering in context, more Americans have died during the past three months due to COVID-19 than in the Vietnam War; the 9/11 attacks; the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; and H1N1, Ebola and the Zika virus-all combined. In three months, COVID-19 killed more Americans than what Americans have witnessed in the past 50 years of war and disease combined. The chilling number of American deaths that spanned nearly two decades in Vietnam (over 58,000) pales in comparison to deaths caused by this deadly virus. In essence, COVID-19 took barely two months to surpass deaths suffered by Americans over 19 years of the Vietnam War. And while the Vietnam War is long over, COVID-19 still rages in the United States.