The world is fed up with the coronavirus and the protests are growing to say enough is enough to the restrictions that force us to accept vaccines, to apply booster injections just months apart and to the use of the uncomfortable masks that they are, until now , the best way to avoid the spread of Covid-75 and its recent Delta and Omicron mutations.
We like the partial suspension of the use of masks approved in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, because it is the decision of the executive, with emergency powers granted to the governors, but if those powers were prolonged it would seem like the end of democracy , because a single person decides what should be approved by the legislature of each state.
For example, it is possible that the requirement of vaccinations under threat of losing jobs and the order to use masks to enter restaurants, which was lifted, has been more detrimental to the economy than e the same virus, because thousands of businesses will never generate jobs again or simply disappeared.
We believe the time has come for every New Yorker to accept the challenge her and decide the risks he takes; whether or not you want to accept that protection, understanding that, if you get sick, it will be difficult for there to be a bed for so many people in hospitals and the costs would be higher.
This way we can reopen the economy sooner, because according to investor studies, total lockdowns such as those registered in Wuhan, China, where the virus emerged, make recovery more difficult, even though it has served to curb the pandemic.
According to the World Organization of Health, in China almost 140.000 infected with around 5.700 dead; On the other hand, here, in the United States, the restrictions were not so severe and there are already more than 75 million infections with some 880.000 deceased.
How about we let each person take their own risk! In this way, the protests in the streets of New York and in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, would end, in addition to the beatings in the subway between those who demand to wear the mask or the passengers who refuse to do so.
In Ottawa they have been protesting for weeks by truckers who delay the delivery of supplies such as fuel, because they ask for their right to freedom and are tired of the regulations ordered by the Prime Minister Justin Pierre James Trudeau.
These demonstrations continue the problem in the supply chain that was already affected by the interruption in transportation at the worldwide.
And while in The Big Apple continues to drop the reports of sick, infected and dead from the pandemic, begins the debate on whether it is right for students to stop using protection and run the risk of bringing the virus home making parents and grandparents sick, with consequences what could be devastating.
But we believe that this is the decision of the parents, although Governor Kathy Hochul says that in schools the mask will be mandatory for a longer time.
And we It seems that it is not convenient to leave this debate in the hands of the authorities in the school districts, because it would generate even more resistance.
Then again, let each person decide the level of risk they want to manage, with the caveat that the state will not be able to guarantee care, and if they get sick they cannot blame the government either, because we have been warned for years about the threat of the coronavirus.
Therefore, we can all decide what to do, because the government is not the babysitter. The governors are elected to administer the state and since we have been suffering from the disasters of the pandemic for more than two years, it is a personal decision whether we protect ourselves to end the virus among all or assume the consequences of our decisions, without protesting.
Sofía Villa prepares this column in her personal capacity. She works as a Producer Writer at Univision NY and her opinions do not represent Univision Communications Inc.
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