Why you should care about civil liberties and privacy. Navigate Left. Navigate Right. Share on Facebook. Share on Twitter. Share via Email. Citizens more prone to COVIDrelated health complications and residing in COVID hotspots are more willing to sacrifice individual rights and freedoms than are those who have a lower risk. Exposure to COVID risks is associated with greater acceptance of policies to relax privacy protections, greater willingness to suspend democratic procedures and to delegate decision-making to experts, and greater tolerance of policies that curtail economic activity and mobility.
People with less education and weaker attachments to the labor force, or in the case of the US who are members of racial and ethnic minorities, are less willing to trade off their rights than are other groups, even in the face of heightened health risks. As shown in Figure 4, between March and mid-June , people became less worried about the risks associated with the COVID pandemic, and their willingness to sacrifice their rights decreased.
This study paints a complicated picture of how citizens trade-off civil liberties during major crises. The policy responses adopted by governments, especially democratic ones, should be responsive to the preferences of the citizenry. The extent to which citizens comply with policies enacted in times of crises likely depends on whether they agree with the restrictions imposed by the policies, which could ultimately determine the efficacy of these policies against the pandemic.
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