First, there are many definitions of freedom: the situation of a person who is not dependent on someone, or who is not locked up, the power to act without constraint, etc. However, the main idea remains the same and the feeling of being free can be felt in different ways: Physically and morally.
So, one might think that we are locked up because we can’t physically leave our homes, that we are denied our activities and access to schools or educational institutions. Our freedom to go outside whenever we want is reduced to regulated outings could make us think that by being controlled we are far from being free.
However, morally we are far away from society, in fact all the codes we have to respect are no longer respected because we stay at home, all the advertisements that influence our society are not useful and our compulsive buying impulses are “controlled”.
To continu, we can say that locked up at home and our access to the internet, we are free to make our choices, to behave as we wish and nobody dictates or imposes “codes” on us. Moreover, the look of others, which pushes many people to behave in order to enter in the society , has no real effect anymore. (except maybe on social networks, but that’s another subject).
It was my point on vue about the liberty during que quarantine.
Ms. Hubbard
Strongly disagree. What about people buying insane amount of things online? Most stores are having insane sales. People “breaking” the rules influence others. Look at Bois de Boulogne, huge gatherings of people, not a lot of masks, not a lot of distance between them, people are still behaving as they want and I think there is social pressure to act this way…