The Values Pressure Cooker

Nowadays, the world is going through difficult times. All of us know very well today’s agenda. Because at the every tv channels, on the internet, each social media accounts this topic is talking – Coronavirus epidemic. Of course, it is not the first and as I see it will not be the last. With a short overview over the history of human being, we can easily find out quite a lot number of pandemics. Like, the Black Death, Plague of Justinian, Spanish flu and so on. And the next one is COVID-19. It is fearful dream of the world now. Many scientists and thinkers warned people that if such an epidemic occurred, the world health system is not ready to stand for that. And today we see that not only health system, also politicians and people in government administration are not ready for that. At this blog I will take a look from the political window to this crucial issue. This virus is that, which the most of scientists unanimously claim that this virus was produced in laboratories. This viru...

As countries around the world are shutting down, we are all faced with serious ethical questions about what we all should be obliged to do for others.  With that being said, why do we all have an ethical obligation to make decisions for the greater good in times of crisis? The answer seems simple to me, and that’s because if we act selfishly people will die.  And that’s that.   Social media campaigns beg people to #stayhome, #staythefuckhome, and #flattenthecurve, and that they should.  Flattening the curve slows the spread of the virus, prevents an overload of severe cases, and alleviates the tremendous pressure on the public health care system.  It also ensures we preserve life as well as possible, and life offers benefit to society and our economies.   The concept is simple, but it’s harder for people to live in a way they are unaccustomed to which requires them to think of others first, while also remembering the importance of their ...

This is being written on the 2nd of April 2020, as Coronavirus is ravaging many nations, and global headlines announce themes like, “US Viral Death Toll Tops 5000’ and “Which Countries have the Most Cases and Deaths’.  This has many people, including the writers of this blog asking, “What is our personal social responsibility in a crisis situation such as this and what is the responsibility of our leaders?” A popular American podcast produced by Vox, The Ezra Klein Show, shared an episode today entitled, ‘What Social Solidarity Demands of Us in Pandemic’.  The episode questions why we started using the phrase ‘social distancing’ in the first place, as this can be misconstrued as an excuse to forget the most vulnerable in society and approach this crisis from an individualistic standpoint where people are most concerned about looking out for themselves and themselves alone.  Klein argues and I agree, that what we really need now is ‘physical distancing’ and ‘social so...