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KMID : 1146320210090020065
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Journal of Health Technology Assessment
2021 Volume.9 No. 2 p.65 ~ p.67
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Freedom in the Time of COVID-19
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Suh Guk-Hee
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Abstract
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We are in the time of COVID-19, when structural weakness in each country’s health care system and social security system are clearly exposed. The pandemic will come to an end, but its long-term effects will change lives across economic, social and cultural spheres. This COVID-19 era is seriously asking whether individual freedom can be restricted in the name of public interest. If it can be restricted, it is important to clearly define what is public interest, and practically specify under what principles, whose liberty can be restricted in what ways and how much. Using the novel information and communication technologies, it is possible to monitor everyone anytime and anywhere. Even some governments have excellent surveillance systems. Some of them may try to keep the excellent surveillance system after COVID-19 era to collect and look into personal information under the pretext of establishing a long-lasting infectious disease monitoring system to protect public health. If people are forced to accept the offer and can’t stand it, wisdom of Stanley Milgram famous for his Eichmann experiment should be borrowed. First, responsibility and obligations of each person in charge at each stage of the related system must be clearly defined. Second, shift of responsibility to other person must not be allowed. Third, the 3rd party should constantly monitor compliance with all of them.
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KEYWORD
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Liberty, COVID-19, Surveillance, Public interest, System
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