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Rayyan Baig The freedom is price less whose value can't be equated with anything else in life. The man is born free, values freedom the most and jealously guards it, and at times goes to any extent to protect it. Instinctively the animals also prefer freedom over everything else. A birdin a beautiful cage, in the company of its companions and abundance of feed in secured environments prefers to escape to the freedom on the very first opportunity. In humans the freedom is generally taken for granted, one only feels its absence when some restrictions are imposed on him. Dick Cheney, ex US vice president rightly said, 'It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you'.

The restrictions on freedom of thought and freedom of speech are painful but freedom to breathe in fresh air and freedom to move around are the most agonizing. The Coronavirus has resulted in the ailments, deaths, and financial losses and deprived human beings from the precious 'freedom of movement' at a scale never witnessed before. People from all over are confined to their homes, even in the most advanced countries of the world.

They can't visit parks, attend marriages, send their children to schools and continue their businesses etc, and there is uncertainty about the life/ future. The entire world, including the UN, is worried about the situation and pumping in tremendous funds to control Coronavirus. There have been various deadly and contagious diseases in the recent past but never such a concern was shown by the world because it didn't curtail the freedom of people.

The medics, intellectuals, journalists, jurists, and different world organizations etc are all striving in their ways to control Coronavirus and restore the freedom. In this self-absorbed scenario where each individual and country is thinking about itself, an affable voice 'Howdy...