Журнал. World association for medical law. The COVID-19 pandemic. Volume 39 2

117 Medicine and Law right and forbidden to go outside their place of residence. The government mandated closure of all international and intranational traffic except for state needed logistics. Though the pandemic is not over, the campaign is now coming to a halt, similar to other European countries. Why did the economy and social life have to collapse if poeple are currently able to return to a “normal life” despite the ongoing pandemic? The sole answer that arises is a lack of strategy in organizations. Was “EvdəQal” (“Stay at Home”) justified? Data show that Belarus’s and Sweden’s no lock-down policies did not worsen their results compared to Azerbaijan: the mortality rate in Belarus is half of that of Azerbaijan despite a higher number of infected 8,9 . THREATENING PEOPLE TO JUSTIFY LOCK DOWNS Some governments used the pandemic to test deprivation of constitutional rights and learn about the public’s reactions, possibly abusing this situation for their own political interests based upon the WHO recommendations. Countries like Italy and Spain had mortality rates greater than 15% among the infected – strict lockdown policies likely may be necessary in such countries. In Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and other in the regional nations, where mortality rate was around 1%, the stringent quarantine mandates were dubious. The governments’ advice of threats of disease equated infection with COVID-19 to a death sentence, provoking potentially unnecessary public panic. A television appearance highlighting the non-acceptability of such an approach of “false threat” was censored and the presenter was later obstructed from public speaking 9,10,11,12,13,14 . 8 Stu Woo,Bojan Pancevski. Sweden Has Avoided a Coronavirus Lockdown. Its Economy Is Hurting Anyway. The Wall Street Journal. 7 May 2020. https://www.wsj . com/articles/sweden-has-avoided-a-coronavirus-lockdown-its-economy-is-hurting- anyway-11588870062 9 Dan Rivers. “Here we’re playing with fire”: Life in Belarus continuing as normal despite coronavirus spread. 03 May 2020. https://www.itv.com/news/2020-05-03/here-we-re- playing-with-fire-life-in-belarus-continuing-as-normal-despite-coronavirus-spread 10 Ahilan Arulanantham. How much Liberty must we give up. A Constituitional Analysis ofthe Coronavirus Lockdown Proposals06 april 2020. https://www.justsecurity.org/69538/ how-much-liberty-should-we-give-up-the-constitution-and-coronavirus-lockdown- proposals/. 11 COVID-19 Worldwide Dashboard. WHO Live World Statistics. https://covid19.who. int/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwwr32BRD4ARIsAAJNf_0r63v1uAOUl0CFpOix93FLLesYtkEIov NEm75LoMVVIAZyCCHbUuQaAu7QEALw_wcB