What happens when a personal 'right' violates the rights of others? — via healthing_ca
What happens when one person's 'right' violates the rights of others? Stock/Getty
It’s true that younger populations are less likely to die from COVID-19, or have severe complications. According to, the lowest numbers of hospitalizations, ICU admissions and deaths occur in younger age groups. So while crowding parks may not be about life or death for many younger people, they can still get sick. And that’s where a solid perception of risk becomes important — not for them — but in terms of how their actions impact the larger community.
Other letters talked about how the “risk” isn’t real, that, in fact, concern around virus exposure is misplaced and we should actually beto get infected in order to increase immunity. One reader thought that those not in the vulnerable categories should be free to crowd parks at will, and he wondered why we were all surprised that those most unlikely to die from COVID-19 were sitting shoulder-to-shoulder on a sunny day. “Why wouldn’t they?” he wrote.
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