In this country we are constantly harping about human rights. But I have a right to be left alone—it’s one of the two human rights as I wrote in Classical Dialogues: the right to the necessities of life and the right to live life as I choose. I am not being left alone if I am constantly being pestered by people serving their own interests.
What is truly infuriating is that if we on this planet did as China did when COVID-19 was first detected, namely locking everyone down, the virus would have disappeared, having exhausted its 72-hour life existence. This planet would have had a chance of joining those in the universe where human life was part of all existence, commensurate with it as Spinoza viewed things. As it is, however, life on this planet will disappear and join all those planets in the universe where it takes millions of years for life to evolve again.